Special Features

PERFECT LOCATION

Set in sylvan surroundings with stunning views and surrounded by forests and seasonal waterfalls, our homestay is perfectly located for a rejuvenating and relaxing holiday.

PRISTINE ENVIRONMENT

Verdant forests teeming with birds. Clean and refreshing air. Magical weather that can be a sight in itself. Soaring mountains. Beautiful greens and stunning blues. Enough said.

HEALTHY FOOD

Simple, home cooked and delicious food sourced locally for the most part. Cooked and served with dollops of home made ghee and love. Second helpings will become second nature.

ECOFRIENDLY & SUSTAINABLE

We are conscious of the fragile environment where our homestay is located. We adopt ecofriendly and sustainable practices to reduce our impact on the natural world.

RELAX & REWIND

Curl up with a book. Explore forests. Record beautiful flora and fauna. Go on long and rambling hikes. Drink in unique sights. Listen to the wind or the silence. The choice is yours.

REFLECT & RECONNECT

Eat. Talk. Drink. Walk. Laugh. Read. Hike. Run. Meditate. Write. Ideate. Paint. Photograph. Cook. Vegetate. Reflect. Sleep. Repeat. Reconnect with your friends, family and soul.

Books

All rooms have an eclectic selection of books from our personal collection for your reading pleasure. Please don’t forget to return them when leaving.

Coffee & tea station

You are welcome to make use of our all day tea-coffee station featuring a selection of fine teas and a french press coffee to brew the perfect cuppa.

Board games

We have a range of board games like scrabble, chess, darts, poker, and taboo available for use on request on a first come first serve basis.

Socialise

We love long conversations that spark ideas so our common spaces have been designed to encourage guests to converse and interact.

Vintage furniture

All our rooms are furnished with handpicked and beautiful antique furniture that have been carefully restored.

Bespoke Experiences

Enhance your stay through special experiences. We will share our joy of experiencing fine things that can elevate every day life.

Food

Simple, healthy but delicious Pahadi-Telugu food made using fresh vegetables and ingredients sourced from our farm and neighbouring farms or locally as much as possible.

Water

We get fresh mountain spring water everyday that is UV filtered and dispensed through copper jugs and glasses for maximum health benefits.

Beds

We have furnished beds in all the rooms with top of the line ergonomic but plush Therapedic and King Koil mattresses to help you get a good night’s sleep.

Eco-Friendly Features

By staying at Fagunia Farmstay, you are also helping reduce your impact on the local environment. We do this through the following environment friendly measures in running and maintaining Fagunia Farmstay.

Fully solar powered, solar powered backup, solar water heating system and LED lighting.

Collecting, filtering, storing and using rooftop rainwater.

Minimising plastic use. Encouraging guests to not bring any plastic and take back any that they bring/generate.

Sourcing 50% of food used from within a 5 km radius.

Composting wet waste and safely disposing dry waste.

Changing bed linen and towels every 4 days of a guest’s stay to minimise water and detergent usage for washing.

Filtering grey water through an on site recharging soak pit.

Using vegetables and fruits grown organically on our farm.

Managing sewage sustainably through a recycling system onsite that converts sewage into natural fertilizer for use on our farm.

Sustainability Features

Fagunia is our attempt to lead a sustainable, zero waste, and self sufficient life. While we have a long way to go before we can be termed 100% sustainable, over the years, we have progressed quite a lot on this journey. Below is our self-assessed performance on the core sustainability issues that are common to most sustainability reporting frameworks and standards.

Energy85%

Energy

We use a 4KW solar on grid solar system and a 1KW solar off grid system to produce power renewably for our needs through solar power. We use LED lights throughout to reduce our energy usage. We use a solar powered water heater for providing hot water. We do not use fossil fuel powered generators and only use a solar powered inverter and batteries for essential power backup.

Water65%

Water

We have a rainwater harvesting system that collects and stores rain water. Currently, we can store about 40,000 litres of water. We are also trying to slow down the rain water flowing down our slopes to let it percolate into the soil. We also mulch as much possible in our fields to keep soil moist for longer and reduce the need for watering. Local grass that is hardy and requires minimal water just in summer has been used in our garden areas. Going forward, we hope to increase our capacity to capture and store rainfall.

Food40%

Food

We are currently practicing a permaculture approach to agriculture on our farm. We grow quite a few seasonal and organic vegetables, herbs and fruits for our personal use and either store or sell the excess produce. Currently, about 2 months in a year we are able to source all the vegetables we need either from our farm or neighboring farms. However, we are still dependent on other farms or the market for sourcing the majority of our food. We hope to reduce this as much as possible in the coming years by increasing the diversity and quantity of food crops we grow.

Waste65%

Waste

We compost all our wet waste. We encourage our guests to take back any single use waste they generate during their stay. Our grey water is filtered through a multi-layer filter bed and infiltrated into the soil. Our black water is collected in an on site reusable twin pit sewage system that will safely decompose the waste into natural fertilizer that can be used a soil enhancer on our farm. We also use canna and banana plant circles to filter some of of our grey water. Any plastic waste we generate is safely burnt in a closed wall incinerator and the burnt waste is collected and safely disposed at a waste collection centre. We collect all non-burnable plastic and metal waste and then drop it off at a waste centre. We collect glass bottles and up cycle them for different purposes. We are slowly reducing our usage of chemical cleaners by making our own bioenzyme. We have reduced or stopped buying by making at home everyday essentials like yogurt, ghee, paneer, garlic powder, ginger powder, chilli flakes/powder, turmeric powder, coriander powder, pickles, and bread. Our aim is to achieve zero waste circularity where all waste we produce is either recycled or upycled or decomposed into reusable natural fertilizer.

Community55%

Community

We employ only locals as staff and up skill them. We pay them a living wage as per current wage standards for our region. We provide them performance linked pay incentives. They have paid casual leaves and sick leaves. We also pay their salaries through direct bank transfers to encourage savings. We prefer to employ women where possible and available. We have previously supported the college education of one of our staff’s children. We buy local as much as possible and employ local skilled and unskilled workmen as far as possible for ongoing repairs and maintenance. We are supporting the village primary and middle school by providing infrastructure support to setup a digital lab. We are currently implementing a pilot co-curricular activity program for the school children to improve their learning outcomes. We are expanding our community support initiatives by understanding where the greatest need is.

2022

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TripAdvisor Travellers' Choice Award

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Ranking on TripAdvisor

99.99%

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Guest Satisfaction

100%

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Will come back