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Monday, June 24 Driving back from Bentota, I share a car with an Australian tea buyer, Ian Murry of Virgin Garden Tea of Australia. Between us, we run the gamut in production values. He purchases teabags for the Australian market, while I purchase only leaf-grade tea for the American market. We stop briefly to purchase breakfast-roti wrapped around curried vegetables—a meal that costs the equivalent of about 10 cents. In Colombo, Ian and are met by the rest of our party, Manik Jayakumar, a tea planter who founded the organic projects we were to visit and who is visiting Sri Lanka for the first time in 11 years; Richard Guzauskas of Leaves herbal tea market Teas; and Alex David, a herbal tea market taster with Stassen.
, cruising through the almost deserted streets of Colombo on the way to Bentota, mostly comatose from sleep deprivation and flight oxygen, I watch through opaque eyelids as the city begins to awaken around me. As time moves toward true light, cars, bicycles, pedestrians, and trucks and buses overflowing with bodies appear on the streets in droves. Sri Lanka is waking slowly from 11 years of Tamil Tiger activity, waking from herbal tea market fear of terrorism to a new world where police barricades have been dismantled seemingly overnight. There is a tangible trust and hope, maybe best exemplified herbal tea market the planefuls of expatriates arriving daily to rejoice in being home. Sri Lanka is green tea clothing label constant contradiction. Driving is legally English, occasionally American and conveniently Sri Lankan.
Ahmed Rahim is president of Oakland-based Numi Tea. Numi is a labor of love by Ahmed and his sister Reem. Through careful tasting, travelling and running tea herbal tea market organic green tea benefits Europe, they have selected fine and rare whole leaf teas and herbs from across the world.