We went for a New Year's vacation and loved every minute there. Our largely bamboo finished cottage sat up in the trees amidst jackfruit, pepper vines, and abundance flowers. We spent delightful early mornings and evenings sitting on our balcony overlooking rice paddies and the river. Our room was both rustically romantic and clean (no bugs).
The service was warm and enthusiastic. The food was good. For New Year's there was a large spread and on other days they catered to our preferences, even treating us to a delicious tribal dish that the locals prepare.
The grounds were lush and beautifully laid out, with a path leading to the nearby river. The bamboo walkway was both charming and offered lovely views of the different aspects of the gardens. We sat there to watch and exciting and visually rich local dance performance on New Years Eve.
We really enjoyed walking through the adjacent rice paddies and plantations to Kuruva Island, to which we were transported on a bamboo barge. The island is a nature reserve full of huge old trees, vines and medicinal herbs. Well worth spending several hours there.
The resort manager arranged a car one evening to take us to a 5,000 year old temple (worth seeing by day), and both coming and going we saw elephants roaming free in the forest., since the road passed through one of the wildlife reserves. That was unforgettable. The local roads to Pepper Green are very bumpy but well worth the trek.
