Stirred: An evening of cocktails with Jeff Fuchs

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Join SriLankaInStyle and Dilmah Tea to celebrate a tea journey through Sri Lanka by Jeff Fuchs at the Park Street Mews on 31 August from 7 p.m. Tickets are priced at Rs. 1,500 and can be purchased at the venue

Enigmatic Canadian explorer Jeff Fuchs will host the final in a series of hosted events designed by SriLankaInStyle, at the Park Street Mews on 31 August from 7 p.m. in an evening of live jazz and tea inspired cocktails. The event will bring together the many enigmatic personalities that Jeff met along the way in his 10 day past-to-present exploration of the cultures, landscapes and essences that have shaped Sri Lanka’s tea story. His tea journey takes off from 22 to 31 August, and passes through some of Sri Lanka’s most remote and serene tea valleys and landscapes, blending luxury with an element of adventure for the intrepid in a rare opportunity for travelers to access some of Sri Lanka’s true bastions of tea and island beauty while taking in Sri Lanka the way it should be: up close and personal. Fuchs has this to say about the journey: “It (Sri Lanka) is a region I’ve returned to again and again, for the abundance of layers. Tea of course drags me into every single tea stall and garden, but the people and diversity are what ultimately keep me coming back. It is exactly these elements that make a journey a discovery.” The series of hosted events will take place at some of Sri Lanka’s most luxurious properties, namely: The Wallawwa, travelling up to the Cultural Triangle to Ulagalla, around to The Kandy House in the Hill Capital, to Tea Trails in the Tea Country and Why House in the South. Guests staying at these properties will experience intimate, first-hand personal anecdotes from Jeff’s life in tea around the world, and his take on the Indian Ocean Island’s tea culture, as well sample single estate teas and cross a good portion of central and southern Sri Lanka. Fuchs is an award winning explorer, tea maven and author. He has devoted much of the last decade to discovering Asia’s indigenous mountain cultures. He led the first western exploration of the Nomadic Salt Road in southern Qinghai province and authored ‘The Ancient Tea Horse Road’, becoming the first westerner to travel and document the extraordinary six thousand km tea trade route in its entirety – a journey that National Geographic Traveller Magazine listed among ‘50 Trips of a Lifetime’ edition.