Resort Nakshatra

The Peerless Inn

Taj Bengal

Oberoi Grand 

Hotel Hindustan International

The Park 

Lytton Hotel 

Home Stay Calcutta

Kennilworth

Fairlawn Hotel

Jiraan The Retreat

Quality Inn Golden Park

Your visit to Santiniketan, Birbhum, can now give you a very unique experience. Visit Jiraan, a rural retreat with a difference: a cluster of clay cottages in the arms of generous green, overlooking a huge pond – it is a retreat attached to a working farm. With the sky teasing your spirits to fly like a kite and the red-earth below your feet tugging at you to explore the land around you even as the verdant green all around beckons you to give flight to your imagination, Jiraan is the place where you regain your self and renew your energies.

The ambience is rural and rustic but the basic creature comforts satisfy urban needs. The architecture: a fusion of rustic mud-huts and a more modern, brick framework, it is eco-friendly and uses to a large extent, renewable resources like bamboo. The cuisine – a refined version of home-style cooking – promises to satiate varied palates even as it comforts body and soul.

There are ample opportunities to avail of transport facilities and go sightseeing. Some of the interesting sights around are: the hearth of Tagore’s creativity – Viswabharati University and Kala-Bhavan in Santiniketan; Kankalitala temple which is also a pitha-sthan(religious site); the Dokra village where Dokra craftspeople can be seen at work in their home-ground; lovely picnic-spots beside the rivers Ajoy or even a day-trip to Massanjore (80 kms away); the terracotta temple of Gad-jangal, set deep in the forests and an enchanting drive away. Local attractions like Baul-singing or Adivasi dances can be organized for groups on request.

Jiraan Ahaar -The Restaurant - Pure vegetarian food is available in three styles: north Indian, South Indian and Bengali.  Often cooked with homegrown farm-produce --  including farm-fresh greens, vegetables, brown rice [on order] or home-made ghee -- the food tastes heavenly;  there is an aquaguard  in the restaurant to guarantee  safe potable water for you.

The Restaurant serves both vegetarian and non-vegetarian thalis with fish, egg or chicken as well as special items on request like special fish, or special vegetables cooked in myriad Bengali ways that bring to mind a mother’s cooking, exotic fritters and other such extra items.

Jiraan Abaash - The Retreat - The rooms are spacious and clean with en-suite bathrooms that have western amenities and running hot and cold water (individual geysers in every room).                                                                     Towels and soap are provided. Laundry facility is available.

Generator back-up is available for power-cuts between 8 a.m. and 10 p.m. There is an inverter that will provide one fan and one light to every room in case of power-cuts between 10 p.m. and 8 a.m.

*A request to all visitors: this is an eco-friendly rural retreat, our home and our work place. We have tried to provide the best possible solutions to urban needs, keeping in mind the ecological considerations as well. Please understand the needs of nature and our environment and a lot of our policies (that may seem to differ from corresponding urban accommodations) will perhaps make better sense.

Location -Jiraan is located at Kamarpara village in Birbhum district, WB.

On the highway between Bolpur and Ilambazar, right after BITM college comes Kamarpara  bus-stop and the gates of Jiraan-The Retreat.

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