Anopura

The journey to Anopura began on a drizzly morning in 2013, on land in the Aravalli foothills at Jamwa Ramgarh, outside Jaipur. Buildings here are made with lime mortar rather than cement, to keep walls and floors cool and cut the need for air conditioning, and the retreat runs on solar power. The Aditya Baheti Foundation, based at the property, runs handicraft workshops for local women, funds school repairs and organises plantation drives. Anopura was voted one of the best resorts in the world in the Conde Nast Traveller 2024 Readers' Choice Awards, in the Rest of Asia category.

Fourteen rooms sit across 60 acres of farm, curated forest and Aravalli hillside. The Royal Villa Estate runs to 12,500 sq ft with two king bedrooms, a private pool and a thatched Tibari lounge; the all-glass Paradise Villa covers 2,200 sq ft with its own temperature-controlled pool; the 700 sq ft Khet Niwas suite has bay windows facing the farms and hills. Food is grown on the farm and served at The Farmstead and Cherry's Bar, at the Cattle Ranch and under the Tree Pavilion. Over 5,000 trees go in each year along what the property calls its oxygen trail.