Kiambethu Tea Farm

Today we 'played ladies' and visited a tea farm!! Was so much fun relaxing in the sun! Had tea and a talk about the process of making tea. Then a tour of the tea plantation and through some forest then we had lunch provided. Was such a nice relaxing day.

On our way back to the city we visited a waterfall... Was nice!

Has been so nice to spend some more time with Lizelle again. Have had so much fun with her and she's been so good to us!! Here's some photos of our adventures today..

Cha and Lu xx

With Lizelle on the tea farm tour. 

Look how neat all the bright colors are!

:)

Say cheese!!

Tea pickers hard at work. Those sacks will hold about 15kg of loosely picked tea. On average each picker will pick between 50-70kg of tea per day (7am-3:30pm). They then have to sort it and pick out any stalks that are too long and then it gets taken off to the factory that same afternoon. Within 24 hours that it was picked it will be ready for your teapot.  They get paid for each kg they pick... Paid between 7-10 shillings her kg, that's 10cents NZ per kg! Not sure how much the farm owner gets paid per kg from the factory! Was so interesting. 

Looking back towards Nairobi... We were up 2000 feet higher than the city

Tea plantations, such perfect rows!

Just casually... A Kenyan 'furniture truck'. 

At niagara falls! :)