Lahiru is a great guide with good english. He knows a lot about tea and he is very welcoming. I recommend the factory tour :) very interesting

Siva gave me an insightful and engaging tour of the tea factory. He was kind, funny, and very knowledgeable, making the visit both enjoyable and educational!

You have the option of visiting the plantation, with a short talk from one of the tea experts and then picking some tea with one of the tea picking ladies or doing tea factory tour and watching the actual tea processing in progress, or you can do both. I’d highly recommend doing both! For the tea plantation visit, our guide, Sallay, was excellent. After the picking the tea with Maria, we had a tea tasting session where Sallay explained all about the different tastes. For the factory tour, Siva, took us round and explained everything to us, letting us get in close to the actual tea processing machinery and see the tea at all the different stages of production. I was worried this visit might be a bit too touristy, having seen some of the photos on Trip Advisor of people dressing in traditional costume (which you don’t have to do and we certainly didn’t bother!), and of course it’s set up for tourists, but it’s genuinely informative and a great experience if you have any interest in a good cup of tea! Well worth a visit if you’re staying in Ella.

We had a great experience with our guide Rajha. He did a great job, show us everything, answered all our questions. It definately worth a visit. Thank you, Rajha, for guiding us throw Halpewatte Tea Factory.

Brilliant tour of the tea factory, Siva the guide was extremely knowledgeable and had really good English. Tea manufacture is quite complicated and really interesting. We saw all the equipment, the huge drying racks, the rolling and sorting machines, and he explained all about the different grades of tea. It's really well worth a trip there.

Very informative tour from Siva. He is passionate and knowledgeable about all things tea. Great way to spend a morning!

We visited the tea factory to understand more how they make tea and it was a very informative session. Our guide Rajha was great, he gave us a lot of information from the plantation to the actual final packaging with a lot of details and demonstration. I was really impressed by the detailed and long process and with the load of information Rajha shared. He is a great guy!

Very good tour, not too long but with all the explanation. Siva was a really nice tour guide! Also nice views from the factory!

Amazing tour with a lot of insight about tea making process. Our wonderful guide Lahiru walked us through the each step of tea production and explained in details every question we had.

Extremely knowledgeable Siva taught a Englishman more about tea in 45 minutes then I knew in a life time. He is an encyclopaedia of tea! Highly recommended

If you like ‘how it’s made’, this place is a gem! I was lucky to have a tour with Mr Siva. His passion but also his knowledge of the science and technology behind tea production made this an especially enriching experience for me. It was a great pleasure to listen to Mr Siva speak about the importance of each factor for making high quality tea while seeing the well maintained production floors and operations live. Ah and the view from the factory balcony is mesmerising! Thank you to Tea Factory and Mr Shiva for keeping such a nice place up.

Such a great tour and learnt so much about tea. Reasonably priced and great guide. Thoroughly recommend! Great aromas too!

We took this tour with guide named Siva and it was perfect. He told us some really cool informations about different types of tea and showed us the factory!

It was amazing experience, our guide Silva really know a lot about tea factory and the whole process of tea making. His english was very fluent

Siva best guide, i really appreciate his advices. The tour took ~1h and it explained all details anout the tea and its production