Tranquil

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With a warm family welcome, this wonderfully peaceful and exclusive resort is pocketed away on an incredibly lush 1.5 sq km of working pepper, coffee, vanilla and cardamom plantations. The elegant eight-room house has sweeping verandahs filled with plants and handsome furniture, and there are two custom-designed tree houses that may be Kerala's finest (complete with French-press coffee grown on-site).

A network of 11 marked walking trails meanders around the plantation, and you'll also enjoy a bar, a lounge area and a pool. It's 7km southwest of Sultanbatheri, but feels a world away.

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