Đồi chè Đông Giang

This guide to the Dong Giang tea hills follows an order that reshaped this valley in nineteen seventy seven, when a wartime supply unit was folded into a new state farm and told to pull up every food crop except tea. You'll hear how the slopes were already tea country from the French colonial period, and how for decades the harvest was picked by Co Tu families who did not own the rows they worked. It closes on how that arrangement has loosened today, from token parking fees to families selling tea they dried that same morning.