Madikeri, Coorg
Cardamom House
Three bedrooms on a small estate that still dries coffee in the yard. Leave a note and the cook comes at eight. Otherwise the kitchen is yours, and it is a good one.
₹18,500 / night
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Private houses · India
Where the
weather stays.
Four whole houses, in Coorg, Kumaon, Wayanad, and a quiet court in north Goa.
Cardamom House · before sunrise
The idea
A key, a kitchen, and a morning that is yours.
We look after a few houses and almost nothing else. The linen is already warm from the window. Where there is a hearth, the fire is laid. Coffee comes from the slope you can see from the bed.
The fog usually lifts by ten. The day can start after that.
- 04 houses
- 02 night minimum
- 01 key for the whole house
The houses
Four houses, on purpose.
A working estate, a pine ridge, a valley veranda, a laterite court. A fifth would have to earn the key.
Mukteshwar, Kumaon
Ridge Cottage
Two rooms of stone and pine. A deck, two chairs, and a blanket that lives outside because the evening is the point.
₹22,000 / night
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03 — Vythiri, Wayanad
The Long Veranda
Four rooms along one table. Dinner is laid when the light drops into the valley, and the estate keeps talking after the plates are cleared.
₹16,800 / night
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Assagao, Goa
Cashew Court
Laterite, a frangipani, and a stone basin that keeps the court a degree cooler. The sea is a short drive when you want it.
₹24,000 / night
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The morning
Breakfast is the plan.
Behind Cardamom House, before the fog lifts.
Journal
Notes from the houses.
12 September · Coorg
Leave before the estate starts its bikes.
The path is short and worth the damp. After nine it belongs to the day’s work.
28 August · The cook
A neighbour with a key.
She lives down the path and cooks when the slate says so. Dinner is a sentence, written the evening before.
2 July · The kitchen
What we leave out.
Salt, good oil, a pan that heats evenly, and the coffee. You should not have to hunt for a thing.