Kiambethu Tea Farm, Kenya

In Tigoni, near Limuru, Kenya, not far from Nairobi, is the Kiambethu Tea Farm.

After a cup of tea and cake, in which the history of the Kiambethu Tea Farm is told, visitors hear about the process of making tea.

Afterwards, a Kenyan guide leads visitors into the indigenous forest. Native plants and trees have traditional stories, and many have medicinal properties. Colobus monkeys chatter in the tall trees, and birds are plenty.

The three-course meal buffet lunch is prepared with vegetables from the Kiambethu Tea Farm, with cream and milk from their Channel Island cows.

http://www.kiambethufarm.com

MARTINA NICOLLS is an international aid and development consultant, and the author of:- The Shortness of Life: A Mongolian Lament (2015), Liberia’s Deadest Ends (2012), Bardot’s Comet (2011), Kashmir on a Knife-Edge (2010) and The Sudan Curse (2009).