Tea pluckers

Sabah Tea Plantation nestles on the lush tropical wilderness of Malaysia’s first World Heritage Site, Mount Kinabalu, and sits on a 6,200-acre land at 2,272 feet above sea level. It is surrounded by the world’s oldest rainforest as well as spectacular mountains.

Sabah Tea Plantation is the largest single commercial tea plantation in Borneo with an area of 1,000 acres.It is also one of the very few tea plantations in the world that is certified as organic tea producers.

Sabah Tea Garden

A tour around the factory, and the proven demonstration of how authentic and genuine the tea leaves used in the drink with no added colouring have indeed been educational and informative.

Taken around the factory for a brief overview of how tea leaves are processed, from withering, rolling, fermenting, drying, tea-tasting to packaging, the Sabah Tea Garden also provides the “Sabah Tea 2D/1N Adventure”, which has won Tourism Malaysia’s first ever award for Best Tour Programme for Education Tourism.

Educational trip

Both educational and fun, visitors can choose to either experience a night in a traditional Rungus longhouse or a bungalow, and can join in the fun at taking part in a cultural dance show performed by the locals.

Besides the tea factory and plantation tour, there are also brief description on basic jungle survival skills, understanding the rivers, obstacle training and other recreational activities.

Accommodation on site - traditional Rungus Longhouse

Cosy, spacious

Have a taste of tea pancake and teh tarik, only available at the Sabah Tea House.

The smooth texture of the pancake, eaten as it is or with honey, just melted in the mouth, and the bubbly and creamy organic teh tarik was so soothing and balsamic – especially drunk in the midst of tropical wilderness of the most diversed rainforest in the world!

Scrumptious snacks!