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Farm More Important Things

Right from the time we started work at Chettimani, we wanted to grow food around there – its a very satisfying feeling to be a producer and not merely a consumer. Apart from the coffee, there’s little we have done by way of effort so far. This year, the hope is to change that, and grow some banana, and add more pepper vines, and maybe even some paddy.

Nature’s blessed the place with natural produce – and there’s jackfruit, butterfruit, kaipuli, guavas and a bunch of other stuff with no inputs from our end. It feels awesome to be part of such a fertile, green, productive place.

If any of you would like to come over and get involved in any farm related work, let us know. Its a joy we’d love to share.

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With love, for and from the World Champions!

The Indian Cricket Team, as of course you know by now, has given us much to cheer and much to be proud of. They’ve also been rewarded handsomely – and many have suggested they could do something nice and generous with some of this.

Linger extends an opportunity to the Indian Cricket Team to both enjoy their rewards, and have the cake as well! We welcome them to take a nice do-nothing break at our properties, and we’ll donate 100% of the proceeds to deserving charities!

Dhoni and co,  for once, come over and do nothing, whenever you decide to take a break from your tiring schedules 🙂

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A Year of Lingering

Linger will complete a year of hosting its first formal guests around the 15th of March! Its a journey thats been fun – we met lots of interesting people, added another property, and played host to a lots many happy memories.

Thanks to folks for spreading the word for us – we depend on you guys to keep us going. In fact, the word of mouth actually helped us get covered in the Outlook Traveller within our first year itself!

We’re of course celebrating. And to do this – all reservations at Chettimani for dates between the 11th and the 25th are at our introductory prices that folks paid in March last year!

We just love to see folks Linger ….

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Doing nothing on the Saddle

One of the most amazing ways to spend pleasant, lazy mornings is pretty places is on a bicycle. It keeps the peace, its healthy and helps you breathe in the clean air, it works up an appetite and you get to see a lot more of the place, up close – especially on the smaller trails off the roads. Its also a lovely way to spend some time with your own thoughts, catch up with the local sights, sounds, people and get a good endorphin rush first up in the morning.

Linger destinations are a dream come true for bikers, and we encourage all our guests to do short rides, at least. Chettimani is in an undisturbed area with tarmac, off-roads, and then there’s the Talacauvery climb to challenge most. Balur Estate has 26 kms of jeep roads inside the estate itself – and there’s 2 lakes to find, lots of hills to climb. Both places also offer excellent routes and roads to go do long rides if thats your thing. Our places have bikes now – MTBs – and we’ll be a adding a few more.

If you plan to take your own bikes there for some serious riding, you’ll surely have a lot of fun there. Do let us know if you need to borrow a bike rack. There’s a pump there so you’re all set!

Get on that saddle and ride!

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Especially Blissful Lingering

Vacations feel that much extra fun and relaxed when you take a break midweek. For one, there’s lesser traffic. The destinations are quieter. And of course, the “hehe, they’re all in office…..” bit cannot be discounted, can it ? 🙂

In fact. we like the idea so much that weekdays are at 15% off (except those special times of the year, of course). But we don’t see enough folks make the effort and make their “leaves” count. So here’s what we decided to do :

All through Feb & March 2011

Checkin on Monday – preferably by lunchtime, Checkout on Fri, post lunch

Pay for just 2 nights! Yessir – thats a full 50% off on a 4 night/5 day stay!

Nopes, doesn’t work for 2N, or 3N.

Take the whole week off, and we’re making it special for you.

Includes everything-out-there, as usual.

So get hold of whoever-it-is you need to get your leave sanctioned, and plan a nice Linger-ing time. At either of our properties (and there’ll be a couple more ready soon).  There’s bikes, books, food, rivers, bonfores, walks, treks and lots of time for doing nothing, snoozing in a hammock and catching over chai or coffee.

Mail us at stay@lingerleisure.in.

Or give us a call right away :

Vijay: +91-98452-68678 or Sameer: +91-98451-80207 or Santosh : +91-98454-42224