East Oversea Chinese Town Tea Brook

This guide to East Oversea Chinese Town Tea Brook in Shenzhen follows the odd pairing at the heart of the OCT East resort — a faithful recreation of Switzerland's Interlaken set beside the tea gardens of southern China, opened by the OCT Group in 2007. It traces the terraced Sanzhoutian Tea Plantation, the Alpine facades and covered bridges at the valley floor, and the Ancient Tea Town where you can follow a single leaf from picking through rolling to tasting. The valley often fills with cloud after rain, when the Swiss village and the tea terraces seem to appear and disappear together.