Is it tea time?

It is hard to say what my favorite place we visited on the trip was but the tea plantation is one that comes to mind right now. This place was really beautiful. All of the hills and valleys were covered with plantings of Camellia sinensis. I think of this place once in a while when I am at my summer job at the Horticulture Research Center (HRC) here I work with apples in the apple orchards and sometimes day-dream about what it would be like working in a tea plantation. At the plantation tea is harvested, hand dried and packaged. It was a really great place to visit and now I have even more respect for tea after seeing how long the process is from harvest to the first cup of tea.