Handunugoda Tea Estate

This plantation has belonged to my family for 140 years. Our specialty teas adorn the world’s most famous tea salons.
- M.H. Gunaratne, Proprietor & Tea Planter

The award winning and world-renowned Handunugoda Tea Estate is a family owned plantation near Mirissa not far from Galle in the south of Sri Lanka. Handunugoda is an eco friendly estate that considers it’s impact on the environment, never using pesticides or insecticides. The property grows tea, cinnamon, rubber, coconut, spices and is rich with diverse fauna and flora.

M.H. Gunaratne, Proprietor & Tea Planter

Handunugoda’s owner Herman Gunaratne was a professional tea planter in charge of almost 100,000 acres of British and later state owned tea plantations on the rooftop of the island of Ceylon’s Nuwara Eliya. After many years of working for foreign tea companies he finally returned to his family’s land, the Handunugoda Tea Estate.

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• Wikipedia entry of the Handunugoda Tea Estate
• Wikipedia reference to Virgin White Tea