SUJÁN The Serai, is a Relais & Chateaux luxurious camp, sitting on a 100-acre private estate of indigenous desert scrub, drawing inspiration from the designs of the royal caravan sites of Rajputana, blending their dash and vivacity with modern amenities and services. SUJÁN The Serai is located in Dabla, Jaisalmer.
The camp features 21 beautifully appointed Tented guest rooms, including Luxury Tent, Luxury Tented Suite, Royal Tented Suite, many of which include all modern amenities like clothes rack, private pool, air conditioning, heating. The highly acclaimed SUJÁN Spa has been created by Rosamund Freeman-Atwood, of the globally renowned Raison d’Être. The SUJÁN Spa comprises four tents with interiors that induce soporific charm and a sense of well-being set within a walled garden.
The camp raises awareness among their suppliers about using natural, traditional and organic farming methods and a ‘no plastic’ policy. The organic farm and dairy help preserve gene strains of indigenous poultry and cattle while providing homegrown produce, tended by our team of gardeners and farmers.
Dining Tent
The Dining Tent serves delicacies as well as delicious western repasts drawn from inherited recipes that pattern the daily changing menus, meticulously planned, to give you eclectic fare using fresh homegrown organic ingredients. You may choose to dine at the dining tent or anywhere on site.
SUJÁN The Serai is known for its family recipes and menus, its outdoor kitchen and its team of chefs. Freshly produced salads and ingredients from the camp’s Organic Herb and Vegetable Garden are used to create delicious, sumptuous meals. The Bar oozes comfort and beckons travellers to slip into the ample, deep set club–chairs, placed around plush accoutrements. The wonderful interiors are best enjoyed with cocktails or other refreshing concoctions.
Experiences
Jaisal and Anjali Singh have personally designed and created each of the exclusive destination experiences offered by SUJÁN The Serai, out of sheer passion and an overwhelming commitment to protecting and preserving India’s wildlife, heritage and culture for future generations. Suppliers and producers are encouraged to get involved in protecting the environment through innovative ways.
Venture into the mystical environs of Jaisalmer, discover its fabled golden fortress, now a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Jaisalmer Fort in the Indian state of Rajasthan, a living medieval city within the fortifications, is one of the largest in the world. The city spills down the hillside below the ramparts. Built in 1156 AD by the Rajput ruler Rawal Jaisal, from whom it derives its name, Jaisalmer was an important caravan sarai, an oasis, on the trade route that connected India with Central Asia, Persia and beyond.
Golden hued dunes
The Thar Desert extends between the Aravalli Hills in the northeast, the Great Rann of Kutch along the coastline, and the alluvial plains of the Indus River in the west and northwest. Most of the desert is covered by huge shifting sand dunes that receive sediments from the alluvial plains and the coast. The sand is highly mobile because of strong winds that sweep across the open expanse at the onset of the monsoon.
The dunes at Jaisalmer are soft, golden hued and warm. The most sublime experience is to sit at the dunes, feel the softness of the sand, and breathe in the best of nature, interspersed with sublime sundowners. We invite you to experience the mystery of the great Thar Desert. Step out and step into a different world to observe how life conducts itself in this part of the world. Engage with artisans and local artistes or simply watch life go by at a village well.
A desert concert
The legendary Manganiyars musicians.are the traditional bards of the western desert, with a history that goes back 13 centuries. Their music has influenced musical forms as far away as Spain where it travelled to with gypsies. These troubadours mesmerise you with their melodies, singing about love, war, passion and devotion, anything encapsulated in a life and its rhythm is potentially a note for them to string a song with. Their heritage has been passed down from father to son, generation after generation and many of them are regular performers in the greatest and grandest musical halls of the world. But at The Serai, they are at home, at ease and sing for you at leisure, their ancestral village barely thirty minutes away. Even a private concert with these unique musicians can be arranged.
