Part Five

Tea ready to pick

The top three leaves are harvested.

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Orange Minivet

Pericrocotus flammeus - male.

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Brown Shrike

Lanius cristatus

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Spray Rig

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Tea Picker

My guide recruited this worker to demonstrate the clipper box tea cutter.

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Tea Leaf Clipper

A bit less discriminating than the hand picking of tea leaves.

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Orange Minivet

Pericrocotus flammeus - female.

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Velvet-fronted Nuthatches

Sitta frontalis

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Common Rosefinch

Carpodacus erythrinus

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White-cheeked Barbet

Megalaima viridis

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Civet Coffee Beans

There is a commercial coffee made from coffee beans like this, very expensive and puzzling.

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Tea Pickers

Using the clipper boxes.

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