Jiraan Resort ( Bolpore )

About Us       Facilities :
Your visit to Santiniketan, Birbhum, can now give you a very unique experience. Visit Jiraan, a rural retreat with a difference: a cluster of clay cottages in the arms of generous green, overlooking a huge pond - it is a retreat attached to a working farm. With the sky teasing your spirits to fly like a kite and the red-earth below your feet tugging at you to explore the land around you even as the verdant green all around beckons you to give flight to your imagination.
    
         

Jiraan is the place where you regain your self and renew your energies. The ambience is rural and rustic but the basic creature comforts satisfy urban needs. The architecture: a fusion of rustic mud-huts and a more modern, brick framework, it is eco-friendly and uses to a large extent, renewable resources like bamboo. The cuisine - a refined version of home-style cooking - promises to satiate varied palates even as it comforts body and soul.

There are ample opportunities to avail of transport facilities and go sightseeing. Some of the interesting sights around are: the hearth of Tagore's creativity - Viswabharati University and Kala-Bhavan in Santiniketan; Kankalitala temple which is also a pitha-sthan (religious site); the Dokra village where Dokra craftspeople can be seen at work in their home-ground; lovely picnic-spots beside the rivers Ajoy or even a day-trip to Massanjore (80 kms away); the terracotta temple of Gad-jangal, set deep in the forests and an enchanting drive away. Local attractions like Baul-singing or Adivasi dances can be organized for groups on request.

 

    

Jiraan Ahaar -The Restaurant:

The Restaurant serves both vegetarian and non-vegetarian thalis with fish, egg or chicken as well as special items on request like special fish, or special vegetables cooked in myriad Bengali ways that bring to mind a mother's cooking, exotic fritters and other such extra items.

 

Pure vegetarian food is available in three styles: north Indian, South Indian and Bengali.  Often cooked with homegrown farm-produce --  including farm-fresh greens, vegetables, brown rice [on order] or home-made ghee -- the food tastes heavenly;  there is an aquaguard  in the restaurant to guarantee  safe potable water for you.

 
 
   
           
Jiraan Abaash - The Retreat
 
 
     
The rooms are spacious and clean with en-suite bathrooms that have western amenities and running hot and cold water (individual geysers in every room).
 
Towels and soap are provided. Laundry facility is available.
 
Generator back-up is available for power-cuts between 8 a.m. and 10 p.m. There is an inverter that will provide one fan and one light to every room in case of power-cuts between 10 p.m. and 8 a.m.
 
A request to all visitors: this is an eco-friendly rural retreat, our home and our work place. We have tried to provide the best possible solutions to urban needs, keeping in mind the ecological considerations as well. Please understand the needs of nature and our environment and a lot of our policies (that may seem to differ from corresponding urban accommodations) will perhaps make better sense.
   

Things to Do :  

If you do not wish to hire a car and go sight-seeing to some of the places listed in our In and Around section, here's how you can keep yourself occupied within Jiraan.

In the mid-sized pond of Jiraan one can float a tiny pedal boat and have the fun of short boat rides.

For amateur and serious anglers there is fishing-equipment available on hire. 

For those who seek novelties in the rural experience, bullock-cart rides can be arranged. 

For children it is also enjoyable to have a bath in water drawn from the well!

Jiraan provides a well-stocked library to captivate the book-worm.

Internet access is available.

Above all else, eat, sleep and rejuvenate yourself amidst the green haven called Jiraan.