Lakshman Sagar

So yes, some pictures are uploaded on Facebook and my inbox is full of inquiries for Lakshman Sagar. I feel like a travel agent.
Yes the place is awesome. Yes you should go there once or more. Yes you will love the place, ambience, detailing, hospitality, small acts of courtesy, serenity, everything!


For those who want to go to Lakshman Sagar!

Flight to Jodhpur or Train to Ajmer would be accessible from any part of India. Try for Haripur railway station in Raipur - won't be accessible from everywhere but if you get it, this would be the best as Lakshman Sagar is just 10 minutes from here. Make a note that Haripur railway station won't be available on the online railway booking. They will arrange for a pick and drop from all the three points.

We took train to Ajmer as we also wanted to offer prayers at the Dargah of Khwaja Garib Nawaz.

Two days and three nights would be ideal according to me if you are a couple, with friends or family you can add up a day more!

Lakshman Sagar has 12 Shikhar Ghars ( I think they call them Shikhar Ghars because every cottage is built on a different rock in the property. - my guess).

the sitting area

They are basically mud-stone cottages which has very minutely detailed interiors consisting of a sitting with a fire place, bedroom, bathing space which you will love it, the smell of the stones when the water falls on it! Bou mast! and a private splash pool. I think only 4 cottages have the pools so you can tell when you are booking the room if you want one! If you don't like to much of silence

the sitting area with a beautifully done wall 

the bedroom space 

Food they serve is super delicious. Trust me you will wait for your next meal! Also, everything they serve is from organic farming they do in the fields just outside the property. Also Dayal Singhji ka style of serving, Bahut Badhiya!

Things you can do except for enjoying the silence, food, winds, animals and birds!
a. go for the field breakfast which they offer. Totally worth it to get up early for this one.

at the field breakfast

b. walk around the property in the evening.
c. Village Safari - Umm, if you have been to Rajasthan and know the villages, you can skip it. But on the first day as soon you reach ask them to bring the Mojdi ( Jooti wallah - shoes) to make a custom made for you. They are good!

front side of the jeep is DayalSinghji and behind is Prakashji. Amazing Guys!

d. Fire on the dam at night is fun!

on the check dam, next to the camp fire

e. Rest of the time you will busy clicking pictures, clicking more of every smallest thing around the place. But, yes keep your camera away for a while to enjoy the place more!

Historical Backdrop:
 A 19th century hunting lodge, Lakshman Sagar encapsulates centuries of history and age old Marwar tradition. Built to host visiting noble families and British Emissaries for their hunting escapades, the lodge emanates stories of the era gone by.

 The Zanana (women quarters) and mardana (men) quarters, designed practically for the ladies and  men respectively, offer hints to Rajput culture and traditional customs like pardah or reflecting the granduer of mehfils & baithaks.

Behind is Zanana, now a dining space

one of the spaces inside Zanana

Seeped in history, every corner of lakshman Sagar depicts the nuances of hunting holidays during the days of the Raj. From the machans used for tiger spotting to the man-made lake to attract game, great care has been taken to restore these priceless prints of the past.

This is the website of Sewara where you can book yourself directly! :)

Mumbai And D Break! :)

I was sleeping at my masi’s (aunty) place late morning. I was sleeping to whosever’s places I visited. Yes I was planning this trip from a long time but dint it wasn’t just clicking with lot of work around. But finally took a break and left for Mumbai-the city where I was born……

I was doing exactly what I wanted….. Sleeping all the time!! After all that was the reason why I had been to Mumbai not for visiting places as Mumbai visits used to be very frequent before I started with Yuva Unstoppable but after that my free time was honestly devoted for the kiddos and I just couldn’t stop thinking about them anytime after that. Now when I was finally there for what I wanted to do I was doing the same the other day when Parth called up…. I was like one more of a roaming call and this one for sure must be a long call. (Parth is a super-active volunteer of Yuva Unstoppable, Ahmedabad)

He had called me up for telling me to join in a 3 day village tour which was organized by ESi. He just briefed me that we have to go there in some special van and it was health, hygiene and sanitation awareness campaign. I told him that I would try to join as it was just starting of my trip to Mumbai….. only three days I had come to Mumbai and I was planning to stay longer and hadn’t even booked a return ticket. Fighting with mind finally I came up with a conclusion that I will be going to the village tour and cut off the Mumbai Sleeping trip….

I knew it would be too very hectic for me as I would reach Baroda on Saturday night and had to reach ESi, Sunday morning at 5 which was not possible if I left in the morning. So after a long frantic 6 hours journey from Mumbai to Baroda I reached home had my dinner… had to convince my mom to let me go for one more journey as she was resistant to it and that was the reason I had to go to Baroda... Otherwise I could have gone directly in the same train to Ahmedabad. But Mumma is Mumma after all! She was like I wanted to see you once and you can go now I don’t have a problem... Sweet actually… hai na?

I left for Ahmedabad in a 10.30pm bus. It was very nice of Parth that he came to pick me up at the station and we left for Sughad(place where Esi is located on Ahmedabad-Gandhinagar highway) Again 45minutes of bike ride… Phew!!

Gosshh I travelled a lot that day using different means of transport around 14 hours same day.

There was one difficulty which would have come across but we were saved of it. Asaraam Bapu’s Ashram is just 2000 metres from ESi and there was this riotic condition going there with a ‘Aajtak’ reporter beaten up badly and also other followers of Bapu were beating anyone without any reason whoever came across. It was around 2 a.m. and luckily no one was on roll so we reached and next morning we left for our Village tour.

This village tour was one of most unforgettable experience of my life and I will not regret that I cut short my Mumbai trip as it was a experience of life time….

The tour, the people I met, the places I saw and small incidents that occurred on the tour… I want to pen down everything so instead of just briefing the trip in short I preferred to right everything what all I saw, I experienced, I learnt…… Its my blog after all I can write everything that I want ….Right?