Feature: Chinese tea goes down a treat at Swiss mountaintop ceremony


By Lian YiChen Junxia

by Xinhua writer Lian Yi

BERN, Switzerland, May 22 (Xinhua) -- On a crisp spring afternoon, nearly a hundred tea lovers from around the world gathered not in a traditional teahouse, but on the windswept peak of the Grindelwald-First mountain in Switzerland's Bernese Oberland. The fragrant aroma of jasmine and roasted oolong mingled with the alpine air in a cross-cultural celebration of International Tea Day, held on Wednesday.

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