Indagare Tour: Tea Fields and Villages

You can visit Longjing Village and the Dragon Well Tea Plantation. Tasting, sampling and trying tea is best done with a Mandarin-speaking guide, as the subject is fascinating and you will have a lot of questions for the growers and producers. If you are visiting the TCM, you can also have a tasting at the tiny tea shop right across from the entrance of the pharmacy, where you can sample such teas as oolong and ginseng, along with the region’s green tea (tip: the best time to buy green tea is in the spring, and Chinese never consume green tea in winter, as it is considered to have cooling properties.)