We had a hard bicycling day, after visiting a tea plantation outside Nuwara Ellya.
We toured their processing plant, seeing how the leaves were dried, curled, cut,
ground, and filtered into different varieties of tea. We discovered that the women
who do the back breaking work of picking the tea leaves from the plants work 8 hours a day for 6 days a week, making $3.80 USD per day. The daughter of one of the pickers was our guide through the plant and she said she was glad to not have to be doing the work of her mother.
We had a wonderful scenic 35 km ride downhill for the first part of our day's bicycle
ride, then went an additional 35 km along rolling hills to our destination, encountering several violent rainstorms along the way. Ella is a popular tourist destination and some of us resorted to hamburgers for supper, feeling some pangs of
homesickness for familiar food.
Photo of Howard in Mongolia
.....Howard in Mongolia on a Horseback Riding Adventure, August, 2009.....
Howard and Rebecca in Retirement at a Cafe in San Francisco
................Howard and Rebecca Beginning Retirement at a Cafe in San Francisco................
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