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STARTING FROM SCRATCH |
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| Anant Van started with
the dream of bringing local communities into the
life of the national park. As the project began,
we entrusted the making of the camp to families
from nearby villagers. Six teams, each headed by
a skilled mason, took over. The simplicity of our
design combined with our use of local materials
yielded magical results: within 68 days, we had
a ready camp. |
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| Each cottage/tent follows
the traditional style of village homes in central
India, with a deep verandah, a bedroom and an attached
bath. The walls are made from a mix of hand-quarried
stone and mud bricks baked in our own kiln, and
finished with a beautiful, ecologically friendly
plaster made of mud. Supervised by our in-house
carpenter, local carpenters have built wooden frames
for our roofs, to support hand-made tiles that are
in keeping with the local architectural idiom. |
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| SELF-SUSTENANCE |
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| Each cottage/tent
is uniquely stamped by the hands that formed it,
although the buildings all follow the same basic
design. The mud plaster on our walls and floors
needs to be redone every three to five days –
but at Anant Van, that’s what we want: a home
that demands the care and involvement of our neighbours.
Anant Van offers the local community work that builds
on existing strengths and talents, engaging them
in the tourist economy of the park. |
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| ADVAIT UTSAV |
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Anant Van
also aspires too enable the integration of individual
and the collective with the finest aesthetic movements
of India. This led us to establish Advait Utsav
with our partner Soulitudes. This October, AnantVan
will host, a sublime musical Indian art music form
(Dhrupad) that has evolved over 1000 years.
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| MEALS AT CAMP |
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| ADVAIT UTSAV |
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| Anant Van also aspires
too enable the integration of individual and the
collective with the finest aesthetic movements of
India. This led us to establish Advait Utsav with
our partner Soulitudes. This October, AnantVan will
host, a sublime musical Indian art music form (Dhrupad)
that has evolved over 1000 years. |
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| For more information
you can contact: www.soulitudes.net |
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| FOOD FOR THOUGHT |
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Bandhavgarh was first
noticed by wildlife photographers, naturalists,
and travellers in the early 1980’s. when wer
started the initial camp one of the earliest visitors
was Edward James, the great patron of the Surrealist
dsfghymovement, whom I accompanied along with supportersb
of Gerald Durrell’s Jersey Zoo. From a very
different fdfaspect of the 20th century I arranged
a visit for Sir dfdWilfred Thesinger. aspect of
the 20th century
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