Hitching the bullock cart…
Starting from ₹999 / per person
— An affordable village escape
Bullock cart rides, hands-in-the-soil farming, pottery on the river, and a hot wood-fire lunch — a real rural day, just three hours from Pune. From ₹999 per person.
From Pune
3 hrs
Day or weekend
1–3 days
Group size
2 to 200
— what awaits you
Six small chapters, one long village day.
Each experience is hosted by a village family or a local craftsperson — slow, hands-on, and shaped to the season.
— who's coming?
Made for the way you travel.
Whether it's 30 schoolkids on a Friday or two friends on a weekend.
Starting from ₹799
School Picnics
Curriculum-friendly. Teacher-approved. Kids tired-out.
Starting from ₹1,299
Corporate Outings
An offsite that doesn't feel like work.
Starting from ₹4,999
Family Outings
The trip your kids will actually remember.
Starting from ₹999
Groups & Clubs
Bikers, photographers, college, hobby clubs.
Stay
Cool earthen walls, hand-painted warli motifs, courtyards open to the sky. Sleep on a charpoy, wake to roosters and the smell of dawn rotis.
- Hand-built mud and dung-plastered walls keep rooms naturally cool.
- Hosted by village families — meals, conversation, and a shared courtyard.
- Hot bucket bath, charpoy beds, kerosene lanterns at night.
stayFarming
Walk the bunds at dawn with a farmer. Learn to thresh, winnow, and bundle. Drive a pair of bullocks across a freshly-tilled field. Earn the sweat that feeds a village.
- Sunrise farm walk, tea boiled on a chulha at the field's edge.
- Hands-on threshing, winnowing, and seed-saving with a host farmer.
- Optional bullock-cart ploughing demonstration on cooler days.
farming12
villages
across rural Maharashtra
47
host families
vetted, paid fairly
2,400+
traveller days
since we began in 2019
4.96★
guest rating
from independent reviews
Food
Sit on a low wooden patla while a host cooks over a smoke-stained chulha — bajra and jowar rotis flapped warm, pithla stirred slow, a smear of homemade white butter on top.
- Hands-on cooking with the family — grind, knead, roast.
- All meals locally sourced and seasonal; vegetarian by default.
- Optional foraging walk for wild greens and tubers in monsoon.
foodPottery
Apprentice for a morning with a master kumhar at the riverbank. Wedge clay between your palms, center it on a kicking wheel, and watch a vessel rise from a lump of mud.
- One-on-one wheel time with a master potter.
- Take home a piece you threw and fired in the kiln.
- Riverbank picnic with terracotta cups of chai.
— a typical stay
Three slow days, shaped to the season.
Nothing is rushed and nothing is rigid — the rhythm follows the weather, the harvest, and what the host family is cooking. Here is the shape of a typical three-day stay.
- 1
Day one
Arrive, settle, walk the bunds.
Late morning
Welcome chai under the mango tree.
Afternoon
Settle into your mud-house room. A slow tour of the homestead.
Golden hour
Bullock-cart ride along the field bunds; sunset over wheat.
Night
Wood-fire dinner. Stars come out, lanterns come on.
- 2
Day two
Hands in soil, hands in clay.
Sunrise
Walk to the field with a host farmer; learn to thresh and winnow.
Late morning
Riverbank pottery — wedge, centre, throw a piece you'll keep.
Afternoon
Cook bajra rotis on the chulha alongside the village kitchen.
Evening
Lavani performance in the courtyard, neighbours invited.
- 3
Day three
A quiet leaving.
Sunrise
Optional yoga in the open courtyard, jaggery tea after.
Morning
Forage walk for greens or a temple visit, your choice.
Brunch
A long, last meal — recipes shared, addresses exchanged.
Departure
Cart to the road; a packed pouch of besan ladoos for the drive.
Folk culture
Evenings unfold around a courtyard fire. Dhol drums, tamasha verses, lavani footwork, and elders telling the kind of stories you only hear when the lanterns are low.
- Live folk performances by neighbouring families.
- Bonfire dinner under the stars, music until late.
- Optional warli painting workshop next morning.
— light & dust
Moments from the village.
Pinned to the wall, slightly out of order — the way travellers actually remember a place.
— travellers' notebooks
In their own words.
I have never slept better than I did in that mud house. The walls breathe. The mornings smelled of dust and ghee.
Aanya R.
Mumbai
Throwing a pot at the riverbank with the kumhar, then drinking chai out of it — small thing, but I think about it weekly.
Karan & Jia
Bengaluru
The lavani evening was electric. Three generations of one family performing in their own courtyard.
Olivia W.
London