Chikmagalur (2) · Kabini (2) · Coorg (1) · Gokarna (1) · Hampi (1)
Kahani hides in twenty acres of hillside garden directly behind the sandy bay of Paradise Beach, on the Gokarna peninsula. There are just eight rooms and suites, all looking out at the Arabian Sea, with coastal cooking and plenty to do on and off the estate. The gardens are full of butterflies.
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A villa resort in the foothills of Mullayanagiri, Karnataka's highest peak, amid the estates that earned Chikmagalur the name of India's coffee country. Villas run from snug hideaways to a three-bedroom pool villa; there is an infinity pool aimed at the hills, and Crimson Peak, a bar perched fifty feet up in the treetops, which the resort calls the highest in Karnataka.
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New A private estate hotel on a historic coffee plantation at Niduvale, Mudigere, in the Chikmagalur hills, its rooms grouped into Plantation, Planters and Estate collections where forest meets plantation.
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New A ten room lodge on the fringes of Nagarhole at Kabini, with signature rooms, tents and a pool villa. Safaris, treks and river kayaking go out for tiger, elephant and leopard country.
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New Evolve Back's Kabini lodge is built on the shape of a Kadu Kuruba hadi, with the river on two sides of it and Nagarhole across the water. The top huts have their own pools.
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New A plantation resort at Siddapur in Coorg, built in two architectural registers: Heritage Pool Villas in hand-cut red laterite, and Lily Pool rooms drawn from the thatched, white-walled homes found on Karnataka plantations. Five accommodation categories, each with its own temperature-controlled private pool.
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New A palace-style resort at Kamalapura on the edge of Hampi, its suites drawn from the buildings inside the Zenana enclosure. Four categories, from the Jal Mahal after the Water Palace to the Zenana suites in the main palace building.
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