Dalat Tea Plantation - Cau Dat Farm

The Tea Plantation is a popular place for Dalat young people, as well as visitors visiting the city.

Arriving in Da Lat, visitors not only see the beautiful landscapes, blooming flowers in winter, cool air of summer and enjoy the warm tea of autumn, but also witnessed The ethnic girls: Co Ho, Mạ, Chu Ru ... picking young tea buds by hands to put into the basket on the tea hill at Cau Dat Hill - Xuan Truong - Da Lat. Cau Dat tea is one of the specialties of Dalat tourism, which many tourists love and buy as gifts.

Tea is a good staple tree for exporting of Da Lat in particular and Lam Dong province in general. The French soon set up cultivation and set up the Cau Dat factory for processing tea in 1927. At that time, foreign known Cau Dat tea

The tea connoisseurs will easily recognize the characteristics of each type of tea through natural aroma, tea taste is not chit, sweet and has a stay aroma. ... So, Cau Dat tea has been exported to France, Ha Lan, Germany, Taiwan and Middle East countries.

The black tea of Dalat is widely used by both domestic and foreign people as it is grown on suitable land at 1,500 meters above sea level with a strict production, care and processing process.

To have the good characteristic tea, raw tea goes through many stages when processing such as leaves shred, dried to reduce the amount of water, help the tea firm, not to grow mushrooms, preserve long and pure taste.

Under the ancient shade of trees the road winding on high hills, look at that visitors will have the feeling of enjoying a cup of hot tea - a specialty of the famous land Dalat.

"Cau Dat tea production is not much, the total annual output is only about 300 tons. Meanwhile, "Khanh said. Therefore, in the past time, the company has refused many orders of foreign partners in France, Czech Republic. Currently, 30% of Cau Dat tea products are consumed domestically, the rest is exported through a domestic partner.

From the area of tea plantation of Cau Dat factory in the late 1920s is over 600 hectares, now it is reduced only 230 hectares. In terms of processing technology, tea machines, flooring, drying,, etc., were produced in the 1930s and are still in operation Now. The total of 230 hectares, there is 50 hectares of 60-70-year-old tea trees are still harvested. Therefore, the Board has recently set the target of diversifying products, plants, and investment in the field of tourism, resort.

The most difficult of the company, Khanh said, is the competition. All input costs increase but the price of tea can not increase ... However, Cau Dat Tea still moves on. In the past three years, Cau Dat Tea has grown 30 hectares of Oolong Kim Tuyen tea planted, cultivated coffee, produced Cau Dat coffee, wine (Shiraz, Cadalat, and Dran) and invested in irrigation systems. , machines ... with the cost of about 10 billion Vnd.

The way to Cau Dat Tea Hill, you go straight to Tran Hung Dao Street to Hung Vuong Street (QL20 on the picture), then you have to go right to Trai Mat when a large circle at the end of the road. From here, you will go straight for another 20km to Cau Dat Hill. On this street, you can combine the visit to visit Palace 1, Linh Phuoc Pagoda ...