For a top-of-the-line rural retreat this sublimely peaceful property is hard to beat. Wicker furniture on the garden terrace lends a colonial-era feel, and the surrounding forest is alive with deer and monkeys. If golf is not your thing you can pamper yourself with spa treatments, and the resort can arrange guided forest walks, mountain bike hire and horse riding.
The new block is luxurious, but for real character book a room in the Rana-era Hunter’s Lodge.
Club rooms are worth the extra expense, but all rooms come with 'advice for preventing monkeys entering the rooms'. After breakfast head to the corner of the resort garden to the 200-year-old pipal tree, where the Buddha (played by Keanu Reeves) in Bertolucci’s film Little Buddha was tempted by the demon Mara and called the earth to witness his victory.
A taxi from Kathmandu will cost around Rs 1000 one way.
