Before starting the bus ride back to Nairobi from Kericho (the tea district) we got a morning tour in the tea fields and were told about how you pick tea, what part of the bushes you pick, when you pick it and so on. There where several people out on the field already, working hard with the plucking. One person at that farm picked up to around 60 kilos a day and got 8 kr per kilo, not a bad salary being in Kenya. One very positive thing with bigger tea farms like the one we visited is also the fact that the workers get a place to live with their families, newly built houses in very neat rows built on top of the tea hills, houses a lot better looking than the Kenyan homes I’ve seen so far and with much better access to clean water. They even have something that is extremely rare here in Kenya, which is privacy; usually houses here are located wall to wall without any space between them, squashed together to save space but here there where almost a front yard for to house.
We also got to see the next step in the tea production, which was the tea factory. It was a 40-minuet tour and we got to sea how the tealeaf went from being a leaf to the finely grinded powder that they have in tea bags.
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