Dambatenne Tea Factory

The Dambatenne Tea Factory is a picturesque working tea plantation and factory located near the city of Haputale in Sri Lanka, spread over acres of the country’s most lush mountainous region in the country’s central highlands, en route to the must-see Lipton seat. Tourists visit this popular tea factory to see all the stages of tea production and enjoy the amazing scenery of the valleys, which are pleasantly cooler than naturally cooled Europe. Since most of the equipment in the factory is over a hundred years old, the Dambatenne tea plantation also gives a glimpse of the country’s colonial period.

Dambatenna Tea Estate is a beautiful, lush hillside spread across several acres with a large working tea factory that can demonstrate various stages of tea production such as cutting, drying, turning, filtering, grading, and labelling. Options. There are paths that connect the estates. Foggy mountains appear at the other end. The famous Lipton seat is just around the corner, and the surroundings are breathtaking

History

Dambatenne Tea Factory was built in 1980 by the Scottish baron Sir Thomas Lipton, a notable figure in Sri Lankan tea history and the founder of the well-known brand Lipton tea. The first-sold Lipton Tea extract was made here, and the term “Ceylon tea” is said to have originated here. Despite the fact that the estate and factory changed hands in 1930, the famous Lipton continues to purchase a large number of tea products from the Dambatenne tea factory.