Founder :: Its brain child of Ankit Rastogi who have been seen active participation in the prolific rise of online bookings for the accommodation sector within travel e-commerce over the last decade in India. Ankit Rastogi Co-Founder of IndiaHotelReview (a budget OTA) has been in leadership roles at Goibibo, Stayzilla (India’s clone of Airbnb startup in 2015), Cleartrip and Makemytrip. Co-Founder :: Pradeep Vijayan has also been a veteran in online travel leading business development and partnership roles across India OTA's over last 2 decades championing the cause of online distribution of mainstream and alternate accommodation of South India. As a result of this experience both have combined done at least thousand check-ins and have been exposed to every nook and corner of diverse India. This experience of extensive travel also provided the realisation of how excessive travel or travel without responsibility is leading to spoiling of local resources, community and increasing short term view towards the destination Indians are traveling. Hence the idea of SSEK was born in 2015 with the sole aim of establishing an Eco-sensitive Tourism property standing tall on 4 pillars of Agri Tourism, Rural Tourism, Wildlife Tourism and Wellness tourism. Lately another travel veteran Ex AirIndia, Goibibo, Stayzilla, a serial entrepreneur and debut travel author Priyanka Rastogi also joined the team from leading the Hospitality Training, Skilling and Operations perspective at SSEK. During this tenure of 7 years from land acquisition to ideation of sustainable hospitality concept to conservation of surroundings to building up an abode our local, multitasking, humble, benevolent first staff member Narendra Patle has played an instrumental role to shape this responsible dream.

It’s an eco-friendly 10 acres forest estate with 5000 sq feet of mud based Non Air conditioned earthen abode situated outskirts of Kanha Tiger Reserve in Balaghat district of Madhya Pradesh, Central India. Located 21 kms from Khatiya gate, 40 kms from Mukki gate and 90 kms from Sarhi gate it offers its own private forest with a fresh water stream adjacent. Known for its stringent responsible tourism practices property offers 2 luxury Family Suite Aircooled Rooms and one 8 bed earthen dormitory as stay options to its guests. Its approved by Madhya Pradesh Govt. Tourism Board under Bed and Breakfast / Homestay scheme with permanent local staff of 4, trained to offer best responsible hospitality equipped with modern amenities, safety and hygiene. Along with the large family rooms guests have access to large central leisure cum dining area called Satkon which has unique water funnel shape design to harvest roof top Rain water , accumulating it in a fish tank inside our dining area and further diverted to our old dug well for ground water recharge. There are ample spaces to socialise in addition to Satkon like our wide corridor with view of our entire Madhuca compound for chirping birds and sunset hues. From parking to ramp, entire homestay is wheelchair friendly. Guest is free to access and use a fully equipped kitchen. Besides cooking, guest can spend time in our private veggies garden, get onto terrace for sighting a perfect sunset or plunge into the exclusive river stream passing adjacent to the estate and not to miss an unique play area for the kids along with plenty of indoor and outdoor games including Table Tennis and Volleyball. Guests at Surwahi Social Ecoestate can relish delicious and hygienic cuisine. We highly recommend trying local delicacies prepared by our in-house chef as per your preference and taste. With spacious free parking, estate is CCTV secured and we follow all the safety guidelines as directed by the local Panchayat and administration.

It is situated 21 km from the Khatiya Gate Park Entrance, 40 kms from Mukki Gate Park Entrance and 90 kms from Sarhi Gate Park Entrance of Kanha Tiger Reserve. 10 acres property is named and situated in the quaint small village of Surwahi, our estate's neighbourhood is a blend of rural farming landscape on one edge with plenty of wilderness on the other. Our last mile mud road based access provides a strict ambience of venturing into the adventurous forest of Kanha with absolutely no sign of any human habitation in the near vicinity for first timers. We are blessed with virtues of unspoiled natural forest as well as farming activity right around us. Its evident from the panoramic views from top of our two towers - a) Halon tower is larger in area but with only ladder access and at a height slightly lesser to Umerpani. b) Umerpani tower the smaller one in terms of standing area but with stairs and situated at a height. Standing on either of them nature lovers do get unparalleled paddy fields on Western and Northern flank of our 10 acres estate boundary on one side and thick forest of Mahua on the Southern or Eastern side. The same towers do act as excellent birding spots and stunning sunset views for our residents keen to click memories.