Pick-up from your Galle hotel
Drive to Handunugoda (Ahangama).
~30 min
Handunugoda Tea Estate & Cinnamon Experience
Taste Virgin White Tea at Handunugoda, then watch Ceylon cinnamon being peeled by hand at Mirissa Hills.
One day. Unforgettable.
Overview
Two of Ceylon's famous exports in one easy morning: low-country tea at Handunugoda, home of Virgin White Tea, and Ceylon cinnamon at the Mirissa Hills estate and Cinnamon Museum, with a live peeling demonstration.
Tour highlights
- Handunugoda Tea Estate, home of Virgin White Tea
- Tea factory tour and a walk through low-country tea fields
- Tea tasting across a range of Ceylon teas
- Cinnamon Museum and working cinnamon estate at Mirissa Hills
- Watch cinnamon bark being peeled and rolled into quills
- Learn to tell true Ceylon cinnamon from cassia
- Optional Koggala stilt fishermen photo stop
- Total tour time
- ~5.5 hrs (08:30–14:00)
- Driving
- ~1.75 hrs
- Visits & tasting
- ~3 hrs
- Meals & breaks
- ~45 min
Timed around the best light and the smallest crowds
How your day unfolds
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08:30
-
09:00
Experience
Handunugoda Tea Estate
Guided factory tour and tea-field walk; how Virgin White Tea is made.
~1.5 hrs -
10:30
ExperienceTea tasting
Taste a range of the estate's teas.
~30 min -
11:00
Drive to Mirissa Hills
~30 min -
11:30
ExperienceCinnamon Museum & estate
Plantation walk, a peeling demonstration and the story of Ceylon cinnamon.
~1 hr -
12:30
Light lunch
Local food at the estate or nearby.
~45 min -
13:15
Return to Galle
Optional stilt-fishermen stop at Koggala.
~45 min -
14:00
Arrive at your hotel
End of tour.
We'll collect you from your hotel
Pick-up points & travel time
| Starting from | One-way travel | Pick-up | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weligama / Mirissa | ~15–25 min | 08:45 | Shorter day |
| Galle / Unawatuna | ~30 min | 08:30 | As shown |
| Hikkaduwa | ~1 hr | 08:00 | |
| Bentota | ~1.5 hrs | 07:30 | Long half day |
Before you go
What to bring
- Hat and sunscreen
- Comfortable shoes for the estate walks
Good to know
- Factory activity depends on the day's harvest.
- Cinnamon and tea products can be bought at both estates.
- Times are a guide and may shift with traffic, weather and the group's pace.
Optional add-ons
- Koggala Lake boat ride
- Galle Fort in the afternoon
- Southern seafood cooking class
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