Rize Tea Plantations & Ziraat Botanic Tea Garden
Ziraat Botanik Çay Bahçesi
Hillside tea gardens in Rize, Turkey's home of black tea. From a teahouse on the heights, you can drink tea while looking down over terraced tea fields and the Black Sea.
Rize is Turkey's main black tea-producing region, and its coastal hillsides are covered in layers of terraced tea fields. Tea harvesting can be seen from May to October. The Ziraat Botanical Tea Garden above the city is run by the state tea company Çaykur. It grows tea bushes and many other plants, and its terrace teahouse overlooks Rize and the Black Sea, where you can taste fresh black tea on the spot. It is about 75 km from Trabzon and is often a stop on the way to Ayder Plateau.
Opening hours
Approx. 08:00–22:00
Nearby sights
- Rize Castle
- Kız Kalesi (Pazar)
- Gito Plateau
- Anzer Plateau
- Zilkale
- Şenyuva Bridge
- Fırtına Valley
- Palovit Waterfall