The average person in Türkiye drinks several cups a day, making the country one of the world's highest tea consumers per person.
Most Turkish tea is grown around the city of Rize on Türkiye's eastern Black Sea coast on the steep mountain slopes.
The region's mild, rainy climate is ideal for growing tea, and it produces nearly all of the country's tea.
The trains connect major cities, towns and remote countryside areas.
Sri Lanka is said to be home to some of the most beautiful train journeys in the world.
We took the famous route from Kandy to Ella, considered "one of the world’s most breathtaking train journeys, passing through Nuwara Eliya, misty mountains, waterfalls and tea fields."
Apparently, something we didn’t know, was that this route is notoriously late and unreliable.
Tea production is an integral part of the country’s economy and culture.
Sri Lanka is one of the largest tea exporters globally.
In a country of about 24 million people, the tea industry provides employment to over a million people. That includes tea pluckers, factory workers and estate managers.
The number employed is even higher when you factor in "tea tourism".
