Glenburn Tea Estate

Husna - Tara Prakash is one of the main forces behind the beautiful Glenburn Tea Estate and Glenburn Penthouse. It began when she wished to make use of her husband’s family tea estate. Despite not having any experience in hospitality or in running a hotel she used her heart, devotion, dedication and the dynamic local community team to develop the estate into what it is today.

Glenburn is spread across 1,600 acres, 600 of which are for tea. The other 1,000 remain forest with two rivers running through the property. Renovating these luxury bungalows took a long time. Before Glenburn Tea Estate came to the Prakash family, the properly belonged to a large tea company that owned 52 estates, and every three years a new manager and his wife moved into the bungalows. The new madam of the house would come in, and wanted to change something here, paint something there. There were layers and layers of personality left behind at the bungalow. Husna-Tara wanted to restore it to its initial glory.

The tea experience that you will get at Glenburn is unique. You taste the teas, learn about the local community, and see the 4000 families that live there. The genuinely passionate story about Glenburn Tea Estate’s little creation slowly spread and was picked up by the media. They thought it wonderful, and that the experience was real and authentic. Thanks to the praise from visitors, the hotel is now very much a core part of the tea estate. Moreover, Husna-Tara’s strong sense of community makes Glenburn Tea Estate special. The property is not just a physical entity, it is the generations and community of people that are part of it. All the staff and local community are part of what make Glenburn Tea Estate possible.

To give back to the community, Husna-Tara and her family started an education sponsorship program for children, a nursery and kindergarten, and created jobs for the community. Her goal is to make the whole Glenburn Tea Estate community proud of what they have achieved.