{"id":497,"date":"2014-05-22T03:30:23","date_gmt":"2014-05-22T03:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webpromotionnepal.com\/angelholiday\/\/?p=497"},"modified":"2014-05-22T03:30:23","modified_gmt":"2014-05-22T03:30:23","slug":"illam-tea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/angelholidays.co.uk\/nepal\/2014\/05\/22\/illam-tea\/","title":{"rendered":"Illam tea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently travelled to east Nepal to Ilam, the country?s tea growing district. Ilam shares its border with India and Darjeeling,? another albeit, less beautiful setting for tea. I am not sure if you can buy Illam tea in the West, but it certainly is delicious.? The photograph here, a little hazy with the pre-monsoon heat, shows the road as it twists and turns up until we reach a sufficient altitude for tea production.? I?m investigating organic tea and the over use of pesticides in the West compared with the pure tea over here in Nepal.<\/p>\n<p>Locals often infuse the tea with spices, or my favourite: Illam tea infused with black pepper ? it?s not a simple process of just adding pepper, instead the pepper has to be heated, crushed and then slowly fermented within the tea.? Next time you are in a supermarket, maybe check if they stock Illam tea, in my humble view, the purest and best in the world.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_495\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/webpromotionnepal.com\/angelholiday\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/DSCF0252.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-495\" class=\"size-large wp-image-495\" src=\"https:\/\/webpromotionnepal.com\/angelholiday\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/DSCF0252-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Illam\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-495\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The road to Ilam, East Nepal<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently travelled to east Nepal to Ilam, the country?s tea growing district. Ilam shares its border with India and Darjeeling,? another albeit, less beautiful setting for tea. I am not sure if you can buy Illam tea in the West, but it certainly is delicious.? The photograph here, a little hazy with the pre-monsoon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/angelholidays.co.uk\/nepal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/angelholidays.co.uk\/nepal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/angelholidays.co.uk\/nepal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angelholidays.co.uk\/nepal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angelholidays.co.uk\/nepal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/angelholidays.co.uk\/nepal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/angelholidays.co.uk\/nepal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angelholidays.co.uk\/nepal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angelholidays.co.uk\/nepal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}