Stay @ Matthuga

Stay@ Matthugay is set on a spectacular mountain backdrop, lush green areca plantation and an untouched wilderness located on a truly mesmerizing landscape. Let the world drift away as you enjoy the exotic surroundings. Perfumed with the inciting aroma of areca, coffee, pepper, vanilla, cardamom, the atmosphere in the wild is sure to leave you intoxicated.             
The stay provides a bungalow located on a 10 acre plantation of Areca on the Bangalore-Honnavar National Highway (NH206), 19 Km from Sagar and 8 Km before Jogfalls. 

The location gives you an added advantage of being neighbour to the most picturesque falls in Karnataka-India. Set in the wild and exotic surrounding of the river Sharavathi, this majestic falls drops nearly nine hundred feet in the form of four main channels namely Raja, Roarer, Rocket and Rani. Watching Jog falls during the monsoons can be an unforgettable experience. The mist around makes the setting magical to view irrespective of the time, day or month of the year.

•     Newly constructed, asthetically designed to retain local feel
•     Situated in the middle of areca plantation surrounded by forest
•     Few yards from national highway (NH 206)
•     Style – Modern
•     Fully furnished with extensive use of wood
•     Granite / Vitrified floorings
•     Five double bed rooms with attached bath and WC
•     Washing machine available
•     Hot water round the clock
•     Vegetarian Food. Non-vegetarian can be arranged (from outside) with prior notice
•     Tour arrangements with CAB & Cars and Guides
•     Ease of reach with medical facilities

•     Children stay free
•     Two large halls to conducts get-to-gather/meetings
•     Television in the lobby
•     Ample parking
•     Hot water round the clock
•     There is a fixed menu & all meals are served buffet style
•     Steam bath
•     Indoor Games: Carom, Chess, Pagade and Cards
•     Outdoor Games: Cricket and Shuttle
•     Corporate Activities
   

Trekking
If you are interested in trekking, you could choose beautiful places ranging from 1-2 kms to 25-30 kms.  From a thick forest/hills to a moderately dense forests/hills or a plane back water shores.
 
Corporate Activities
"Stay@ matthuga" , with its two large halls, is an ideal place to conduct various activities by the corporates like meetings, conferences, get-togethers, brainstorming, team building, workshops and other training programmes or just a stress buster for your top management team.
 
Nature/Plantation Walk
You can take a walk in 10 areas of our Areca Farm with inter crops like cordomom, banana, vanilla, pepper, coconuts, coffee, mangoes etc.  You can even take a long walk amidst paddy fields, Areca Gardens, rubber plantations etc outside our farm.
 
Bird Watching
If you are interested in bird watching, you can watch thousands of birds of western ghats in and around our farm.  Few of those birds are Indian Moorhen, Purple Moorhen, Bronze-winged Jacana, Red-wattled Lapwing, Black-winged Stilt, Blue Rock Pigeon etc.

Why only birds, you could watch the entire wildlife of western ghats like wild animals, birds, snakes, insects and other creatures. Few of the birds seen here are:
          
Farming
You can also witness various farming activities of malnad areas, depending on the season in which you are coming like planting, picking, weeding, harvesting etc of various farm crops. You can also participate in such activities, so that you and your family members especially children will get a first hand experience of such farm practices.
 
Night Walking
You can experience the mesmerizing nights of forest areas with deadly silence of the nature or rarest sounds of many birds, animals, insects etc by choosing a walk in the night ranging from 1-2 kms upto 8-10 kms. That is going to be an unimaginable thing in the urban areas and hence becomes an unforgettable experience for you and your family.
 
Short Trips
We can suggest and assist you to have short trips of a day or two to the nearest farms, temples, back water shores, hills, forests, water falls, wild life sanctuaries, historical places, sea shores, hill stations etc depending on your taste and availability of time etc.  We can arrange vehicles and guides also.
 
Do nothing
This is one of the great activity very few people specially urbanites can do!! Don't do anything. Be away with your cellphone, TV, newspaper, internet or any of the above activity we offer. There is no rule that you should be doing one or the other activities always! You can just spend your day quietly without any activity peacefully being with yourself, introspecting, meditating etc.

Just be with YOURSELF...