Enjoy a Boutique Farm Stay in Rural Rajasthan at Mharo Khet

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Curated & Hosted By

Mharo Khet

Location

Rajasthan

India

Duration

5 Days/4 Nights

Price Starts At

$2,682 (Double Occupancy)

About The Journey

On the outskirts of Jodhpur, Mharo Khet offers you a different way to experience Rajasthan, away from the familiar forts, palaces and desert excursions. Spread across forty acres, this regenerative farm grows more than 110 varieties of fruits, vegetables, herbs and flowers on land that was once largely desert. You’ll come here to see how that transformation has taken place, but also to spend time within it.

Your days at the farm might begin with a walk through the fields, continue with gathering ingredients for a meal, and unfold through local crafts, music and conversations with the saajhis and artisans who are part of the farm's world. Ten cottages, each named after a raga, give you a place to return to at the end of the day.

For four days, the farm becomes your window into another side of Rajasthan, shaped by its land, its people and its everyday life. You’ll also enjoy an intimate Sufi and folk performance by Manganiyar musicians beneath the lantern-lit Rohida tree.

We invite you to step into Mharo Khet and make it your own for a while.

CURATED & HOSTED BY

Mharo Khet

Rajasthan, India

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STANDARD PRICE

$2,682

4 Nights / 5 Days, Double occupancy

STARLIFE MEMBER PRICE

$2,332

Save $350 | Members Only

Pricing is based per room with double occupancy and does not include taxes. Rates may vary for higher room categories, seasonal travel periods, and special requests. Group booking benefits and solo traveller discounts are available.

The moments that make

this journey

memorable

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Rajasthan, India

Settle Into a Working Farm on the Edge of the Thar

Nature Retreat

Mharo Khet

Mharo Khet means 'my farm' in Marwari, and its forty acres outside Jodhpur were once desert. Its founders, Rajnush Agarwal and Vedika Prasad, run it as a regenerative farm: more than 110 varieties of fruit, vegetable, herb and flower grow here, and the kitchens run almost entirely on them. The ten cottages have private courtyards and decks facing sunrise and sunset, but no bathtubs; in a drought-prone region, the farm chose not to spend its water that way. You arrive from Jodhpur airport, 25 kilometres and about 45 minutes away, to a welcome drawn from the week's harvest. Khejri trees stand among the fields, and spotted owlets roost in them.

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Rajasthan, India

Spend an Unscheduled Afternoon on the Farm

Birding Local Flora

Mharo Khet

Aab is the Persian word for water, carried into Urdu and Hindi, and at Mharo Khet it names the pool, on a farm where the land was once only desert. Your first afternoon here is left empty on purpose. Each cottage has a private courtyard and two decks, one facing sunrise and one facing sunset, and from either you can hear the birds in the fields; spotted owlets roost in the farm's khejri trees. Read, sleep, or walk over to Aab for a slow swim. Nothing is scheduled until the guided walk through the fields at dusk, which ends at dinner under the guava trees.

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Rajasthan, India

Walk the Fields at Dusk, Then Dine at Paeru

Local Food Fine Dining

Mharo Khet

Paeru is the word for guava in western India, and the restaurant is named for the guava orchard that hosts it. The fruit itself is American by origin: Portuguese traders are believed to have brought it to India in the early 17th century, and India now grows more of it than any other country. The evening starts earlier, with a guided walk through the fields in the last light, past strawberries, pomegranate, fig, oyster mushrooms and herbs, gathering something to carry to the kitchen. At dusk the walk ends in the orchard, open to the sky, for nine plant-forward courses served blind, following the stages of a life from childhood to what the kitchen calls the nightcap of eternity.

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Rajasthan, India

Take a Champi Beneath the Khejri Tree

Massage Therapy

Mharo Khet

English borrowed the word shampoo from champi, the Indian head massage, in the 1760s, and for decades it meant massage rather than washing. In 1814 Sake Dean Mahomed, from Patna, opened a bathhouse in Brighton and went on to be named Shampooing Surgeon to George IV and William IV. Here the champi is given by a local barber, in the shade of a khejri, the state tree of Rajasthan, whose deep roots keep it green in years when little rain falls. You sit in the open air while the barber works the scalp, temples and neck, with oil if you want it. An unhurried breakfast at Samaa follows.

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Rajasthan, India

Weave a Charpoy With a Local Master Artisan

Traditional Crafts Local Culture

Mharo Khet

Around 1350 the traveller Ibn Battuta noted that the beds of India were so light a single man could carry one. He was describing the charpoy, from the Persian chahar-pai, 'four feet': a wooden frame on four legs, strung tight with cord. Across rural India it has served as a bed, a daybed, a seat for village meetings and a surface for drying spices. At Mharo Khet the charpoys, bag holders and woven décor around the farm are the work of a father and son, who often teach together. They show you how the frame is strung and the weave pulled taut, and over about an hour and a half you make a miniature one to carry home.

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Rajasthan, India

Mix Three Cocktails From the Farm's Own Fields

Cocktail Making Local Drinks

Mharo Khet

The word punch is usually traced to the Hindi panch, five, after the five parts of a drink that East India Company men carried home to England in the 17th century: spirit, sugar, citrus, water and spice. Balancing those elements is still the core of the craft. At Samaa the in-house mixologist starts you in the fields, harvesting herbs and fruit, then takes you through three cocktails built on what you picked, with stories, technique and bar snacks along the way. The session takes about an hour and a half, is open to guests 18 and over, and you leave with a booklet of the recipes.

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Rajasthan, India

Taste India From Kashmir to Kanyakumari at Samaa

Local Food Fine Dining

Mharo Khet

'Kashmir to Kanyakumari' is the phrase Indians use for the whole length of their country: some 3,200 kilometres, from the Himalayan valley to the cape where the Arabian Sea, the Bay of Bengal and the Indian Ocean meet. Along the way the cooking fat changes from mustard oil to coconut, the souring agent from dried mango to tamarind, and the wheat of the northern plains gives way to rice. Dinner at Samaa takes that journey at a single table. The name means sky, or the entirety, and the dining room looks out over the whole farm. The chefs send out the regional cuisines of the subcontinent as a run of tasting portions.

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Rajasthan, India

Practise Yoga on the Deck of Your Raga Cottage

Meditation Yoga

Mharo Khet

The ten cottages at Mharo Khet are named for ragas, and in North Indian music a raga belongs to an hour: Bhairavi to early morning, Sarang to midday, Purvi to dusk, Darbari to the depth of night. In the 13th century the theorist Sarngadeva assigned pure, simple ragas to early morning and passionate ones to evening, a convention northern musicians still follow. This session keeps to the early, simple end of that scale. It happens on your own cottage deck: a private hour and a half of meditation, breath and posture, at a pace set by you rather than by a class. One of the two decks faces the sunrise, and the fields are quiet at that hour.

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Rajasthan, India

Throw a Pot on the Wheel Out in the Fields

Traditional Crafts

Mharo Khet

Clay pots have kept drinking water cool in South Asia for more than four thousand years. A Harappan pot from around 2500 BC sits in the Royal Ontario Museum, and the matka still works the same way: water seeps into the porous clay and evaporates from its surface, drawing heat out as it goes. At Mharo Khet the potter is the fourth generation of his family to make such vessels for Manai, the farm's own village. He sets up his hand-turned wheel in the fields and takes you through centring the clay and throwing a piece of your own. The session runs about an hour. Your pot dries overnight and is ready to collect the next day.

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Rajasthan, India

Lie Back for a Singing-Bowl Sound Bath at Ira

Sound Healing

Mharo Khet

The bowls are sold as Tibetan, but Tibet's musical records are silent about them. Visitors who documented Tibetan ritual music in the early 20th century never mention singing bowls, and the ones sold today come from northern India and Nepal. They reached the West in the early 1970s, and the 1972 album Tibetan Bells did much to tie them to meditation. None of that changes the sound. Ira means earth, and the farm's glass-walled activity centre has a ceiling of inverted clay pots. You lie still on its floor while the bowls are struck and circled, their long overtones building and fading across the room. The session lasts about an hour and a quarter, for two or more guests.

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Rajasthan, India

Learn Kathak or Ghoomar With a Saajhi Dancer

Traditional Dance Local Dance

Mharo Khet

Ghoomar began with the Bhil tribe of Rajasthan and was later taken up by Rajput households, where a new bride is still expected to dance it on arriving at her marital home. Its name comes from ghoomna, to twirl. Kathak takes its name from the kathakar, the travelling storytellers of northern India. Your teacher is one of the farm's saajhis, its partner artisans: a disciple of Pandit Birju Maharaj in the Lucknow gharana of Kathak, with twenty years of practice and her own teaching studio in the city. She takes you through the opening steps of one or the other, at Ira or out in the fields, over about an hour and a quarter, for two or more guests.

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Rajasthan, India

End With the Dishes That Never Made the Menu

Local Food Farm To Fork

Mharo Khet

More than 110 varieties of fruit, vegetable, herb and flower grow at Mharo Khet, on land that was once only desert, and the kitchens run almost entirely on them. That is more than any fixed menu can use. On your last night the kitchen serves what it left out: dishes that never made the menu and the team's most inventive experiments, brought to you as a surprise tasting. As at Paeru on your first evening, you find out what each course is when it reaches the table. It is the fourth and final included dinner of the stay, and it is plant-forward like the rest. Afterwards, the Manganiyar musicians are waiting beneath the rohida tree.

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Rajasthan, India

Hear Manganiyar Musicians Under the Rohida Tree

Live Music

Mharo Khet

The Manganiyars are hereditary Muslim musicians of western Rajasthan whose patrons, their jajmans, have been almost entirely Hindu families. A Manganiyar household kept its patrons' genealogy, sometimes ten to fourteen generations deep, and sang at their births and weddings. On your last night they play for you alone, by lantern light beneath a rohida, the endangered desert teak of Marwar. The kamaicha, bowed and made of mango wood and goatskin, carries the melody over iron morchang and wooden khartaal. The evening takes its name from Amir Khusrau's Aaj Rang Hai, a 13th-century song traditionally sung to close a qawwali. About ninety minutes.

DAY-BY-DAY

Your

Itinerary

DAY

Morning

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Arrive at Mharo Khet with a chauffeured transfer from Jodhpur, around 25 kilometres from the airport.

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Settle into your raga-inspired cottage with a warm welcome

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Get to know the farm, its dining spaces and the experiences that await.

Afternoon

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Spend an unstructured afternoon settling into the farm, with time to rest, read or simply enjoy the surroundings.

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Relax on your cottage deck, listen to the birds or enjoy a slow swim at the Aab pool.

Evening

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Go for a golden-hour walk through the fields, spotting strawberries, pomegranate, figs, oyster mushrooms and fragrant herbs along the way.

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Harvest something seasonal to take to the kitchen before settling in for Paeru’s nine-course, plant-forward tasting menu under the guava trees.

DAY

Morning

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Begin the morning with a traditional champi or head massage beneath the khejri tree, with warm oil if you wish.

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Follow with a delicious breakfast at Samaa.

Afternoon

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Learn to weave a mini charpoy (woven bed) with a local master artisan, using traditional rural techniques.

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Spend around 90 minutes crafting your own piece, with all materials provided.

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Take your finished charpoy home as a keepsake.

Evening

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Pick fresh ingredients from the fields before heading to Samaa for a cocktail-making session with the in-house mixologist.

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Learn the stories and techniques behind three cocktails, with bar nibbles along the way.

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Take home a recipe booklet to recreate your favourites.

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Enjoy a seven-course Chef’s Tasting Menu at Samaa, the farm’s all-day dining room and bar.

DAY

Morning

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Settle into a personalised private session on your cottage deck, combining meditation, breathwork and posture.

Afternoon

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Try your hand at the potter’s wheel with an expert saajhi potter, shaping your own piece in the fields.

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Leave it to dry overnight and collect your finished piece the following day.

Evening

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Unwind with a Tibetan singing-bowl sound bath at Ira, the glass-walled activity centre overlooking the fields.

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Let the resonant vibrations fill the space as you settle into a restorative session.

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Enjoy a pre-curated dinner at Samaa or out in the fields, shaped around the day’s harvest.

DAY

Morning

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Ease into a slow morning after breakfast, with time for the cottage deck, a swim at Aab or a wander through the orchards.

Afternoon

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Learn the graceful movements of Kathak or Ghoomar with a saajhi dancer at Ira or out in the fields.

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Explore Kathak’s expressive storytelling or Ghoomar’s flowing folk movements.

Evening

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As your final culinary experience, relish a surprise tasting of dishes that never made it to the menu.

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Gather beneath the Rohida tree for a private Sufi and folk performance by Manganiyar musicians, lit by lanterns.

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Listen to the kamaicha, morchang and khartaal spread across the fields as your journey and the evening comes to a close.

Starting Package Price

STANDARD PRICE

$2,682

4 Nights / 5 Days, Double occupancy

EXCLUSIVE STARLIFE MEMBER PRICE

$2,332

Save $350 | Members Only

Inclusions

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Accommodation on a Continental Plan (daily breakfast), with one special pre-curated meal included each day (the featured dining experience of that day)

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All listed signature experiences

Exclusions

A la carte meals and dining beyond breakfast and the daily curated meal, beverages

Experiences beyond those listed

Airport Transfers (Round trip Toyota Innova Crysta) INR 9,000/- per vehicle. One-way - INR 4,500/- per vehicle

Personal expenses

All applicable taxes

Anything not specified above.

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$2,682

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