Tours to Sochi and Krasnaya Polyana by SPHERE Travel Company
 
 
 


Excursions


  • Agoura Canyon

  • Akhun Mountain

  • Boxwood Grove

  • Bee-keeper Farm

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Dendrarium Park

  • Dolmens

  • Dolphinarium

  • Incredible Caves

  • Monkey Farm

  • Paintball

  • Russian Tea

  • Rafting

  • Sochi waterfalls

  • Stalin residence

  • Trout Farm

  • Tea ceremony

  • The Tree of Friendship

  • Jeeping

  • Other


 

 
     
 

THE RUSSIAN TEA PLANTATIONS AND A RUSSIAN TEA PARTY

 
   

 

   
 

In 1896 a delegation of Russians returned from its distant voyage to China . They brought 130 pounds of seeds of exquisite Chinese tea, which were planted in a Georgian settlement near Batumi . Only 5% of them proved to have germinating capacity, for the wily Chinese had obviously scalded the tea. However, five years later the first Russian plantation appeared in Sochi .


Nowadays Sochi is the northernmost case of commercial tea production in the world, the only area of tea farms in Russia , and tea is the theme of the best attraction and an exiting educational excursion in the area.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 
 
       
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