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Article: In Sri Lanka, tourism with a capital "tea".(Sri Lanka Tea)
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- Tea & Coffee Trade Journal
- Article date:
- July 1, 2009
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Perched along a twisting, mountainous road four kilometers south of Kandy is the quaint old Ceylon Tea Museum--its machinery lovingly restored for visitors eager to learn about the country's most important industry. With Sri Lanka engaged in a punishing civil war for the last quarter-century, tourists haven't exactly been lining up to enter this crumbling tea factory in the middle of nowhere.
"We get only 2,500 visitors a year," said the museum's director, Dharmasiri Madugalle, known by his friends simply as Madu. "This is not what we expected, and it's because of the war."
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