Tea Plantation

Solar building under construction

Tea plantation house

Vanilla tea and scones

A Hindu temple near Curepipe

Tea leaves arriving at the factory

A tea field

Lunch near the tea factory

The first day in Mauritius, I toured a tea plantation and sugar factory.  On the way to the tea plantation we passed a new building that is being constructed to run on solar power.  We also went through several small towns and saw some Hindu temples.  The majority of Mauritians are Hindu, with the remainder Christian and Muslim.  We first toured the plantation house and then a tea factory, where we observed the process of the tea leaves being dried, shredded, cleaned and packaged.  After touring the factory we had lunch at a chalet overlooking the tea fields and the ocean, before driving to the sugar factory.