Pekoe Trail with Pavithra
The Pekoe Trail is a 323 km hiking trail that winds through Sri Lanka’s Central Highlands, through working tea estates, past pluckers with baskets on their backs, and along ridgelines where the mist rolls in by mid-afternoon. Walk a section of the trail with Pavithra, a local guide whose family has been part of tea country life for generations. Her father was a tea planter, as was his father before him. She was one of the first female guides on the trail and truly invites you into her world.
Pavithra will share the rituals of the tea planters, the hierarchy of an estate community, and how the role of women has evolved from caring for family to a more empowered way of life. Expect to learn things no guidebook will tell you, and come away with a far richer understanding of what this landscape actually means to the people who live in it.









