"A quiet mountain estate in the Kumaon Himalayas with 200 degree views, apple orchards and a reserve forest around it"
Sitla Estate is a mountain getaway in the Kumaon Himalayas, and it makes a straightforward claim: quiet, genuine and away from things.
The views run to roughly two hundred degrees of mountains, and the estate is surrounded by a reserve forest, so the air and the silence are the product rather than the facilities.
The grounds carry apple orchards, vegetable fields, gardens and quiet corners to sit in, which gives the days some shape without needing to leave. The estate runs its own culinary side alongside the rooms, and the character of a stay shifts between summer and winter.
In Mukteshwar, Uttarakhand. The nearest airport is Pantnagar (PGH).
A sanctuary of stone and wood at five thousand feet in Bhowali, heart of the Kumaon Lake District, with Kumaoni cooking from its own herb garden and treks from the door.
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A small lodge at Corbett Tiger Reserve, set between the Himalayan foothills and the Shivaliks: just eighteen independent cottages and lodges in more than fifteen acres of replanted forest. Days run to safari drives, bird walks and morning river walks. Meals are farm-to-table from the retreat's own organic plot, drawing on Kumaoni, Rampur and Raj-era recipes; you can pick the vegetables yourself.
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A century-old aristocratic mansion on the Ganges at Haridwar, now a 35-room hotel under IHCL's SeleQtions flag. Rooms face quiet courtyards or the river, and there is a Jiva spa, pool and library inside the old walls. The point of staying, though, is the house's private bathing ghat on the Ganges; the hotel says it is the largest of its kind.
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