About Us
The story of how a family from Sakleshpura turned a hillside coffee estate into a resort that asks nothing of its guests but time.
Our Story
The Auraa began with a simple brief from the Amrutha family: build something that felt like it grew out of the hillside, rather than one dropped onto it. The result sits low against the slope in Mankanalli, Kudrasthe — stone, timber and thatch, framed by silver oak and coffee shade trees that were here long before we were.
Every arch in the resort — from the entrance gate to our room doorways — nods to the same idea captured in our mark: a threshold between the everyday and the wild, unhurried world of the valley beyond it.
We are a small, family-run property. There is no vast lobby or conference wing — just enough rooms that the person checking you in also remembers your name at breakfast.
We didn't want guests to feel like they were visiting nature. We wanted them to feel like they belonged to it, even for three nights.
P. Venkateshwara Rao — Managing Director, The AuraaHow We Got Here
The Amrutha family acquires a coffee and cardamom estate off Bisle Ghat Road, Sakleshpura, with the intention of keeping the working plantation intact.
The resort opens with its first cottages and the arch-and-leaf mark, inspired by the estate's own stone gateways.
Canopy-level rooms are added among the silver oak, built without cutting a single mature tree.
Sixteen rooms, a working kitchen garden, and a growing number of guests who return every monsoon for the mist.
Come See It Yourself
Browse our gallery or write to us directly — we're happy to help you plan around the weather.
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