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Southern India Tea Tour
A classic journey across Southern India that gives you an amazing insight into a new culture and way of life as we travel through a landscape of beautiful mountains and coastal areas. Starting in the city of Chennai we take a train into the Nilgiri Hills, an area famous for its tea. This unique tour includes visits to a variety of projects and producers, where we hear about the issues facing the tea industry that provides employment for a vast number of people. Our tour includes time in tribal areas and we have a relaxing introduction to Ayurverdic medicine and practices. We spend a night on Keralas coastal backwaters and then re return to Chennai fro from where we vi visit the famous s shore temple at M Mahabalipuram, a great end to a g great tour.
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T Traidcraft E Exchange has b been working i in the Indian te tea industry for s several years. O One of the current projects is with the Centre fo Education for and Communication on a project aimed at addressing the issues behind the crisis facing tea workers as tea prices fall and estates close. The project seeks to organise and empower smallholder growers to realise fairer terms of trade within the industry through domestic market assessment, business support, and advocacy aimed at improved legislation in the industry. Southern India Tea Tour Prole
Tour Duration: Price (land only): 16 days £1295
Estimated Flight Cost: £650 Optional - Insurance: £54 Offset CO2 emissions: £18 Tour Details: 1 night houseboat, all other accommodation in hotels and guesthouses, 60% meals provided, 3 train journeys including 2 overnight journeys, 2 long road transfers, 2 producer visits including 1 Traidcraft supplier, 4 development projects visits including 1 Traidcraft Exchange Project, 3 tourist visits Tour Dates & Codes starts 01 Feb 09 ends 16 Feb 09 code TCTT09/01*
Producer Prole
Sahyadri Tea Farmers Consortium
Based in Peermade, a small town in the mountains of Kerala, the Sahyadri Tea Farmers Consortium is Traidcrafts newest tea supplier. Small-scale farmers in the area grow tea which is processed in their own modern factory. Model farmers share knowledge with their neighbours on how to produce quality tea without pesticides or chemicals. A womens development wing has also been established which helps identify projects to be funded by the Fairtrade premium.
*Prices and dates subject to conrmation
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