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Mahua Kothi
Bandhavgarh, Madhya Pradesh, India · Taj Hotels · Grand Luxury
Mahua Kothi opened on November 1, 2006 as the first lodge of Taj Safaris, a joint venture between Taj Hotels and South Africa's Conservation Corporation Africa (later andBeyond) that brought African-style safari lodges to India's tiger country. Its twelve free-standing kutiyas, modeled on the region's traditional village huts, sit on roughly 40 acres of private forest bordering Bandhavgarh National Park, an area with one of India's highest tiger densities.
- 12 rooms
- Opened 2006
- Neighborhood: Tala
About Mahua Kothi
- The Taj Safaris joint venture that built the lodge also included Nepal's Cigen Corporation alongside Taj Hotels and South Africa's Conservation Corporation Africa.
- Its twelve freestanding kutiyas, luxury takes on traditional village huts, are spread across roughly 40 acres of private forest bordering Bandhavgarh National Park.
- The lodge takes its name from the mahua tree, a species revered across central India for its flowers and fruit and traditionally used to distill a local liquor.
- Bandhavgarh National Park, in the Vindhya hill range of Madhya Pradesh, has one of India's highest densities of Bengal tigers.
History
Mahua Kothi opened on 1 November 2006 as the very first lodge of Taj Safaris — a joint venture between Taj Hotels Resorts and Palaces, the South African eco-tourism company Conservation Corporation Africa (CC Africa, later andBeyond) and Nepal's Cigen Corporation — launched to bring African-style luxury wilderness safaris to India's tiger country. Set on the border of Bandhavgarh National Park in the Vindhya Range of Madhya Pradesh, an area famed for one of the highest tiger densities in the country, the lodge takes its name from the mahua tree revered across the region.
Spread over a private forest of roughly 40 acres overlooking bamboo thickets and grasslands, Mahua Kothi comprises twelve free-standing kutiyas — luxury interpretations of the region's traditional village huts — arranged around a central brick lodge with wide verandas for birdwatching and taking in the sounds of the jungle. Conceived with a deliberately light ecological footprint and rustic-yet-opulent decor, it set the template for the Taj Safaris collection that followed across India's tiger reserves.
The setting
150 km from Jabalpur Airport.
Amenities
- Spa
- Pool
- Fitness center
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