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Madikeri, Kodagu, Karnataka
Four rooms on a working coffee estate, and a table the whole house eats at.
On the estate this month: Picking and dryingThe year on the estate
The estate keeps its own calendar. This is what it is doing, month by month, and what you can walk down and see.
Rain in March and the whole slope flowers white for a week. It smells of jasmine and it is over before you believe it.
The fruit sets green and ripens through the monsoon, under the silver oaks and the pepper vines that climb them.
Picked by hand from late November and spread in the yard below the house, turned every day until the beans rattle in the husk.
Roasted in Madikeri, ground in the kitchen, and poured through the filter at breakfast. Every day of the year.
Gli host
My grandfather planted the first arabica on this slope in 1954 and the bungalow went up around the kitchen, which is still where everything happens. We are a working estate before we are anything else: the pulping runs through December, the pepper comes off the same trees that shade the coffee, and the day starts when the crop says it does.
Guests eat what the house eats, at one table, at the times the house eats. Kaveri cooks Kodava food — pandi curry, kadambuttu, the akki roti nobody outside Kodagu makes properly — and if you want to see how a bean becomes what is in your cup, walk down to the drying yard with Ganesh after breakfast.
We have four rooms and we do not take more than one group at a time in the monsoon, because the road below the estate floods and we would rather tell you honestly than strand you.
Amato dagli ospiti
We ate every meal with the family. Kaveri's pandi curry is the reason we are going back in December.
Ganesh walked us through pulping and drying for two hours and never once made it feel like a tour.
One table, one dinner time, no menu. It is the whole point and it is wonderful.
Came in July and the road was as bad as they warned us. Worth it, but believe them about the monsoon.
Where you will be
Madikeri
Kodagu, Karnataka
Madikeri, Kodagu, Karnataka
Kodagu — Coorg — is the coffee district of Karnataka, a belt of estates between 900 and 1,500 m in the Western Ghats, about five hours from Bengaluru. It is one of the densest homestay regions in India, and almost all of them are working estates rather than resorts: the crop calendar sets the year, the monsoon between June and September is among the heaviest anywhere in the country, and the food is Kodava rather than generically south Indian.
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We are 12 km past Madikeri and the last stretch is estate road — send a message and we will meet you at the gate rather than let you find it in the dark.
Through the coffee and cardamom, loudest in August.
The Madikeri sunset point, and worth the crowd once.
Where the Kaveri rises, up at the head of the range.
On the river; go early or not at all.
Servizi
2 ways to spend your days
3 nights / 4 days
₹14,500
Three nights in December, in the yard with Ganesh from the first picking to the drying beds.
7 nights
₹26,000
Seven nights when the estate is loudest and emptiest. One group in the house.
Arranged by us, run by people we know
Run by local operators we work with. Ask us and we will arrange it for you — nothing is charged here.
Estate Kitchen
An hour on the slope, then cupping four roasts at the drying yard.
If you cancel: Nothing owed if the guest cancels
Estate Kitchen
Pandi curry, kadumbuttu and the greens from the kitchen garden. Eat what you cook.
If you cancel: The shopping is done the evening before.
Barapole River Rafting
Four kilometres of white water below the Brahmagiri, June to September when the monsoon fills it. Guide, jacket, helmet and a safety kayaker.
If you cancel: Half is owed inside a day: the raft and the guide are committed.
Brahmagiri Trails
Kodagu's highest peak, through shola forest and grassland, with a forest guide and a packed Kodava lunch. Leave at six.
If you cancel: The forest permit is bought in your name the day before.
From 12 noon; early check-in on request.
All of them, Kodava, at one table at the times the house eats.
Yes, and children usually end up in the drying yard.
12 km past Madikeri; the last stretch is estate road and we will meet you at the gate.
Kaveri Estate Bungalow
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Camere e prezzi
The Planter's Room da ₹4,200 / notte
Pepper Room da ₹3,600 / notte
The Long Room da ₹5,400 / notte
Questi sono i prezzi più bassi a notte. Scelga le date per vedere il totale esatto.
Vedi le camereCheck-in e check-out
Check-in dalle 12:00.
Check-out entro le 10:00.
Come raggiungerci
Madikeri, Kodagu, Karnataka
Nelle vicinanze: Abbey Falls (9 km), Raja's Seat (7 km), Talakaveri (44 km)
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