What is a Tuk-tuk tea safari in Kandy?

A Tuk-tuk tea safari is like an immersive, open-air guided trip where visitors explore Kandy’s higher tea estates from the back of a classic three-wheeled auto-rickshaw. With this kind of transport, you can actually roll along narrow, bumpy plantation dirt lanes that regular tour buses and regular cars can’t get into.

Usually, the ride is a bit of threading through jaw-dropping terraced slopes, with stops to meet local tea pluckers and to learn in a hands-on way how the leaf picking works, step by step. The driver also plays the role of a local guide and shares background on the Ceylon tea industry, then the day wraps up at an operating tea factory where there is a tasting session, from a viewpoint above the valleys.