1-day Village Tea Picking, Roasting & Serving Guided Private Tour from Hangzhou

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What You’ll Experience
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Duration
6 hours
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Number of Guests
1 - 15 guests
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Language
Chinese, English
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Explore Hangzhou's tea culture on a private tour. Pick, roast, and serve Longjing tea with local experts. Enjoy village hospitality and a traditional tea ceremony in a tea farmer's home.

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For each guest that attends this experience, byFood will donate
10 meals

Experience Details

A daytrip to learn to pick, roast and formally serve the famous Longjing ‘Dragon well’ variety of Chinese green tea. Learn to make Chinese tea, hands-on, start to finish.


From tree to tea, to your friends and family back home.


Learn to pick, roast and formally serve Hangzhou’s famous Longjing ‘Dragon well’ variety green tea. Includes a traditional southern Chinese tea preparation ceremony.


Your all-inclusive Chinese tea experience.


1. Enjoy real village hospitality and authentic Chinese home cooking in a local tea farmer’s home.

2. Watch a traditional southern Chinese tea preparation ceremony.

3. Taste professionally roasted, ceremonially prepared Longjing ‘Dragonwell’ tea.

What You Get

Tea Picking, Basic Tea Ceremony, Tea-roasting, Tea-packing Fees
Chinese-English bilingual guide accompaniment
Bottled water
Gratuities
Additional food and drink
Airport pickup/drop-off

Good To Know

  • Please advise any specific dietary requirements at time of booking
  • Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels
  • Children must be accompanied by an adult
  • Service animals allowed

What You’ll Experience

1

Hangzhou

Meet up. Arrive at Longwu Tea Village. [09:00] Meet up with/be picked up by your guide and depart. [10:00] Arrive at Longwu Tea Village.
1 hourAdmission Ticket Free
2

Hangzhou Longjingshan Tea Cultural Village

Meet your tea guide. Tea harvesting leaf picking. Walk to the village tea fields. Meet with your tea guide. Begin your all-inclusive Chinese tea experience. Learn what about the tea trees, what leaves to pick and how to pick them. Pick a basket of leaves, then return to the farmhouse.
2 hoursAdmission Ticket Included
3

Hangzhou Longjingshan Tea Cultural Village

Lunch. Eat lunch at the tea farmer’s house. Enjoy real village hospitality and authentic Chinese home cooking. Green tea roasting. Tea ceremony. Learn the green tea roasting method and roast the tea leaves you picked. Package up your very own hand-roasted Longjing tea. Watch a traditional southern Chinese tea preparation ceremony. Taste professionally roasted, ceremonially prepared Longjing ‘Dragon Well’ tea. Should you wish to, you have the opportunity to try your hand at the ceremony.
2 hoursAdmission Ticket Included
4

Hangzhou

Send off. Tour end. Return to Hangzhou. Don’t forget your hand-made tea! See you next tour!
1 hourAdmission Ticket Free

Meeting & Pickup

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Pickup Details
You will be picked up at the centrally located Hangzhou hotels or Hangzhou Train Stations

Cancellation Policy

Cancel your booking at least 24 hours before the experience start time to receive a full refund minus a 3.2% transaction fee.

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What People Are Saying
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A great experience.
May 04, 2019
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It was a nice tour! Jason showed us about green tea and about his city. Also we visited the tea plantations. The food was really good!

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Hands-on tea experience!
April 27, 2019
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Jason's dragonwell tea tour with lunch was awesome! We got to experience picking tea leaves in the beautiful tea gardens outside hangzhou. After picking, the tea master showed us how to fry the lea...read more

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Incredible learning moments
April 24, 2019
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Jasson, you are an incredible guide. I learned many interesting things, thanks for everything! It was and will be an unforgettable experience

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Thank you Jason!
April 24, 2019
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This tea experience is so cool! Jason is a excellent guide, he knows all about Dragon Well tea. And the lunch always is delicious!!!

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Great Experience!
April 24, 2019
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This is the second time I've done this activity and I would do it again. This time Jason personalized the experience even more and added extra tea related activities. Food was amazing and we all ha...read more

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