Deogadh [ The beginning ]

Welcome to Deogadh! Deogadh the Homestay and Camp Deogadh. 3 acres of pristine hillside on the banks of lake. Deogadh was built as our getaway in 1999. It went from being raw hillside to a wooded acreage with 50 alphonso mango trees in residence. Amidst an assortment of lychee , papaya, cashew, cherry,loveapple, gulmohur and banyan trees. The house was built in phases. these were the days before cell phones and JCB's. To make a call necessitated a drive to Kale Colony aka Pawnanagar. The slope on which the house stands made it very picturesque but difficult to get material too. Most of the material went up on someones head. Water carried from the lake to Deogadh in a barrel. Which used to sit in our trusty old Willys Jeep. Annabelles job was water fetcher. While I [ Clement] busied myself with important activities like checking the depth of the lake at various points and chasing ducks on the water. And this was for the first room only.Which was all that we had the funds for in 1999.