This is your home.

Two villas.
One forest.

Villa 46 and Villa 50, inside Monkey Forest, can be booked for the night. Take one room, a whole villa, or both villas together. Three bedrooms in each, a terrace in the trees, and a private forest of two and a half lakh trees at the door.

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Villas
Ways to stay
A whole villa
Booking: Direct, on WhatsApp

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Two storeys of rough stone, tall glass and thin concrete slabs, under two and a half lakh trees.

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The first floor. Room 2, Room 3, a lobby and a terrace.

Rooms on this floor: Room 2, Room 3
Each room: Its own bath
Outside: A terrace, and semi-covered terraces

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The ground floor. The living room, the kitchen and dining, Room 1 and two verandahs.

Rooms on this floor: Room 1
Living room: Thirty feet long, glass to the garden
Dining: A table for six, beside the kitchen
Outside: Two verandahs and the garden

Yours for the night.

A whole villa
Both villas
One room

Breakfast included. Booked direct, on WhatsApp.

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The villa, as modelled

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The night,
then the morning.

The rest of your stay, in the forest's own paintings.

A painted scene: two guests on the first floor terrace at dusk with lamps lit, fireflies and a crescent moon over the forest — 7:30 pmThe lamps come on before the sky goes.

Inside a round night window, a lion headed guest with a mug and a bird headed guest sit around a low table with candles under paper lanterns; a langur walks along the top — 9:00 pmSomeone in the forest is always up late.

A painted scene: the villa glowing from every window at night under a full moon, garden lamps along the stepping stones, the forest awake around it — 10:30 pmThe villa glows. The forest gets louder.

Two white swans glide on a night lake under a full moon, lotus in bloom around them, a peacock on the near bank, palms framing the scene — MidnightThe lake keeps its own hours.

Seen from above, a white bed floats on a floor of dark jungle leaves, a sleeper's black hair on the pillow — 1:00 amSleep, with the forest all around you.

An older couple stride along a forest path with walking poles, a langur watching, the glass pavilion lit across the water — 7:00 amWalk the brick-red paths before the heat.

A painted scene: breakfast on the verandah, a guest pouring tea and another reading the paper among banana leaves and frangipani — 8:00 amBreakfast. It comes with every stay.

A hand reaches into blue water to feed a goldfish, koi and a shoal of small fish, lotus at the far bank — 9:30 amThe koi have been up for hours.

A woman in a red dress walks her bicycle along a red earth path by the water, under a pale sky with birds and blush coloured trees — 11:00 amYou leave slower than you came.

Painted scenes, adapted from the art of Monkey Forest

Brick-red paths running between walls of trees, with plots, ponds and a few white roofs seen from the air.

The forest is real.

The villa you just walked through is a model, built from its architect's drawing. This is a photograph: Monkey Forest from the air, brick-red paths running between walls of trees.

Monkey Forest, from the air. Photograph

Monkey Forest, from the air

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Outside your door.

The lake, the library and the waterfall pond are the forest's shared rooms. They are a walk from your villa, not inside it.

A glass gable pavilion and the tiled-roof lake house standing over a pond of pink water lilies. — The lake pavilion
A glass gable on the lily pond.
Photograph

A long table dressed in white linen between two walls of timber shelves in the library, with a curtained window behind. — The library
A timber room of books on the water.
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Water running over flat rocks into a still pond of lily pads, with tall grasses and flowering shrubs on the bank. — The waterfall pond
Water over stone, lotus and reeds.
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Two villas.

The same two-storey, three-bedroom house by Hiren Patel Architects and Design, built twice, mirrored, on neighbouring plots. Take one room, a whole villa, or both.

Nine ways to stay.

What the night
includes.

In each villa

Arriving and leaving
Guests
Booking
Getting here: Kolat-Moraiya Road, Ahmedabad. Twenty minutes from Sindhu Bhavan Road, twelve kilometres from SG Road.