Taj West End

As you speed through the expressways of success, take your foot off the pedal for a moment and gaze into the rear view mirror of your life.

It’s time to return to the basics…to the simple pleasures of childhood…to relive the unbridled joys of being young and carefree…when every holiday was spent at your grandma’s place in your native village.

Our Native Village takes you back to those golden years, when life was all about kite flying, top spinning battles, catapult fights, marbles, gilli danda and hop scotch. When scaling new heights meant how high you could climb the guava tree and innovation was all about stealing mangoes from your neighbour's tree under his nose! When a wedding in the family unleashed the artist in you and you carried out 'your experiments with mehendi'.

These long forgotten joyful experiences, treasured in some forgotten corner of your memory, are what we bring back to life at Our Native Village.

The experiences we offer you are unlike any other.

Our Native Village recreates the ambience of a typical, traditional Indian village, which embodies the true spirit of India like nothing else can. With mud brick edifices, quaint tiled roofs and a landscape that is punctuated with Herostones that tell tales of the glories of yester year.

In this picturesque, rustic setting, you enjoy a plethora of facilities that will make your experience all the more authentic and enjoyable. From comfortable rooms furnished thematically to swank state of the art conference facilities that have been creatively blended seamlessly into the rural simplicity of Our Native Village.

The Village has been built almost entirely using materials from the locality and from the site itself.
Most of the roofs are arched panels using oven baked mud tiles with minimal use of steel. Coconut weed leaves have also been used in places

The layout of both the public and private areas have been planned to allow for maximum natural light and ventilation. The windows have been placed to funnel the wind, through the deft positioning of large size and small windows diametrically opposite each other, in the direction of the prevailing winds in the area.

You will notice a tangible drop in temperature once you enter any of our structures, and a gentle draught moving in the air.

Hero Stones

Veerakallu, or hero stones, are a phenomenon unique to Karnataka. These approximately five feet tall granite stones are inscribed with the glorious deeds of the kings and knights of bygone times, some of them being over a 1000 years old. The landscape of Karnataka is liberally dotted with these stones that are a unique combination of art, poetry and historical fact and give us valuable insights into the fascinating times that our forebears lived in.

You will find specially recreated replicas of these hero stones scattered across our Native Village as well. Studying them is an absorbing and enriching experience.

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