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And the Silver Award for Sustainable Leadership: Homestays goes to Salban - the Kanha Homestay!!!

Perched on the edge of a major tiger reserve, Salban—The Kanha Homestay is very deeply tied in with the local community, ecology and the wildlife, even as it engages with policymakers in the state. Built using local materials and techniques, it celebrates local produce and explores new ways to draw in the traveller into a deeper cultural connect with the landscape and the people.

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00:00 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:06 The mud house that we built was built completely
00:10 with local help, with their knowledge.
00:14 We just put in a few improvements
00:17 to strengthen the structure and strengthen the bridge.
00:20 But it was completely mud.
00:22 It was built completely by hand.
00:24 And it's a wonderful example of how structure
00:28 can be compared to what the concrete structures of today
00:32 are turning out to be.
00:34 We try to rekindle the simple pleasures of life,
00:37 like waking to the song of bird call,
00:39 taking a walk to the nearby lake,
00:41 chatting around the bonfire, and eating home-cooked meals
00:45 using natural produce.
00:47 It's just not that we collect local varieties of grains
00:51 or dals, but we also collect wild species,
00:56 wild species of trees, herbs, shrubs.
01:00 Our village neighbors helped us build our mud cottage.
01:04 All we did was add in a little of our innovations
01:08 and built a mud structure in just seven days,
01:12 which was miraculous.
01:13 [MUSIC PLAYING]
01:17 (upbeat music)
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