Here are a few shots form a recent visit to a Madagascan tea plantation near a village called Sahavamby.
It's about 20kms off the RN7, is unpaved is probably one of the worst roads in Magagascar (see above).
The tea was quite good...
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| An old truck in the plantation car park. Not a good start... |
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| One of the workers holding a range of teas for us to see |
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| Machine that separates the larger tea leaves form the smaller ones using heat on the rollers |
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| Another very old sorting machine.... |
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| We were visiting in the off season so not a lot was going on - other than a bit of maintenance |
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| Lovely old electrical power board |
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| As if it was not hot enough outside, this is the drying shed - 40 degrees |
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| Two wazzahs (foreigners) inspecting the crop |
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| What are the chances? A bit of nostalgia. In the middle of Madagascar, in a tea plantation, a scale made by Avery of Birmingham, my home town... |
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| Close up of the crop, to be picked starting in November |
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| One of the drying sheds - the tea leaves are put on the racks and kept at a certain temperature and moisture using fans that blow air under the tables |
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