Tea plantation bordering the approach to Nuwara Eliya, Sri Lanka.

Nuwara Eliya in Sri Lanka, has some very well tended tea estates. A tea estate needs preparing the soil, planting the saplings, and pruning of the tea bushes. It was an old saying among the tea planters that well pruned tea bushes would pass a 'cricket ball test'. A cricket ball thrown on it sideways would skim it and go a long way. You see a well pruned bushes here, with good attention to weeding and attention to drains to take away the rain water. The blue tinged mountains far away takes ones breath away on sighting the landscape.