Chhatra Sagar Hotel (Rajasthan, India)

Description: P.O. Nimaj / District Pali / Rajasthan / 306303 India / Tel: +91-2939-230118 / E-mail : harsh@chhatrasagar.com.

Newest Review: ... the water. * All right, I admit it: I have a soft spot for unusual places to stay, and Chhatra Sagar is unquestionably out ... more

... of the ordinary. It was founded and is run by two brothers, Harsh and Nanda Singh, scions of the local land-owning family, with a lineage going back for centuries to the time when their ancestors were ejected by the invading Mughals from lusher estates further to the east. It was, we later discover, Harsh who met us on arrival. His initially distant, even daunting, demeanour becomes much more affable with acquaintance. Nanda, also impressively idiosyncratic in style, we hardly meet. Working with them to manage the ...more

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Chhatra Sagar Hotel (Rajasthan, India): Curry on Camping (2927 words)
by - written on 10/10/06 (Very useful, 405 readings)
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It would be easy to say that the experience of arriving at Chhatra Sagar isn't everyone's cup of tea, except that the tea one is eventually given is rather good, and accompanied by a selection of delicious nibbles. This aids recovery from the initial impression, for which some help is definitely required. It would be easy to say that Chhatra Sagar is in the middle of nowhere, but not quite true. It's in the middle of Rajasthan, half way between Ajmer and Jodhpur, each about a hundred kilometres distant, to the north-east and the west respectively. On first acquaintance this seems uninviting country - dry, fawn in colour and sparsely populated. If ... Read the complete review