Inside Kanha Shanti Vanam
Not near the campus - within it. The gardens, the woodland and the meditation hall are a walk from your room, not a drive.
The Pearl · Kanha
A considered stay, surrounded by stillness.
Kanha Shanti Vanam, Telangana
The hotel
A stay shaped by its surroundings.
The Pearl opened at Kanha Shanti Vanam in 2018 as the group's flagship: forty-four rooms and suites built for people who came for the campus and found they wanted to stay longer. The building is quiet and unfussy - pale stone, timber, and as much daylight as the glazing will carry. What distinguishes it is not the specification but the setting. Step outside and you are in restored woodland, formal gardens and open water rather than a car park.
- 44
- Rooms and suites
- 2018
- Opened
- 31km
- From the airport
Why this hotel
What makes The Pearl different.
Forty-four rooms
Small enough that the front office knows your name by the second morning, and large enough to hold a full residential meeting.
Wellness within reach
A yoga studio, Kerala Ayurveda and a wellness centre on the same campus - gently available, never imposed on a stay.
Stay and gather
A banquet hall, a conference room and open pavilions, so a company can meet, eat and sleep without leaving the grounds.
Getting here
Well connected, thoughtfully placed.
Thirty-one kilometres from an international airport, and far enough past it that you hear birds instead of traffic. Practical for a two-night meeting.
Hyderabad airport
Rajiv Gandhi International Airport
31km40 min
Leave the airport on the Bengaluru highway and turn off at Thimmapur. Transfers arranged by reservations.
Nearest railhead
Shadnagar railway station
25km30 min
The closest station. Secunderabad is 54 km and Hyderabad Deccan 48 km if you are on a long-distance train.
The city
Hyderabad city centre
48km70 min
Far enough out that the city stops before you arrive. Straight down NH 44, most of it open road.
Business corridor
The Hyderabad pharma and tech corridor
8–25km15–35 min
Natco, MSN Labs, P&G, Johnson & Johnson, Amazon HYD7 and the Microsoft data centre.
Accommodation
Stay in comfort.
Thoughtfully designed spaces for restful stays. Two room types, both looking onto planting rather than parking.
Deluxe Room
The hotel's standard room and the majority of its inventory. Quiet, well lit, and sized for a stay rather than a night - a desk you can actually work at, and a window onto planting.
Size240 sq ft
Sleeps2 adults
BedKing or twin
Bathroom1
OutlookGarden
- Air conditioning
- Work desk
- 24/7 Hot Water
- Tea/Coffee Maker
- Telephone
- Electric kettle
- Personal locker
- High-Speed Wi-Fi
Suite
Two-thirds again the size of a Deluxe, with a separate sitting area. The room the hotel puts a visiting speaker or a family in.
Size400 sq ft
Sleeps2 adults + 1 child
BedKing
Bathroom1
OutlookGarden
- Separate sitting area
- Air conditioning
- Work desk
- 24/7 Hot Water
- Tea/Coffee Maker
- Telephone
- Electric kettle
- Personal locker
- High-Speed Wi-Fi
Before you arrive
Arrival and departure.
Check-in
14:00
Check-out
12:00
- Early check-in
- From 09:00, subject to availability on the day. Charged at half the room rate.
- Late check-out
- Until 16:00, subject to availability on the day. Charged at half the room rate.
- Government photo identification is required at check-in for every adult guest.
- The campus is a quiet environment. Guests are asked to keep to that in the public areas and gardens.
- Reception is staffed 24 hours. Tell us your arrival time and someone will be expecting you.
In the hotel
Thoughtful comforts.
The list below is the hotel's own. Where a facility sits on the wider campus rather than inside the building, it says so - a distinction most hotel websites blur.
In the hotel
Resident facilities
- RestaurantAll-day dining
- ParkingOn site, complimentary
- 24/7 Front DeskAssisted check-in
- Daily housekeeping
- LaundryChargeable
- Conference facilities
- Banquet hall
- Airport transfersOn request, chargeable
- Doctor on call
- Golf Cart Service
In the room
Room amenities
- Air conditioning
- 24/7 Hot Water
- Tea/Coffee Maker
- Electric kettle
- Hair dryer
- Personal locker
- Telephone
- Work desk
- High-Speed Wi-Fi
- Drinking water
- Bath amenities
On the campus
A short walk from the hotel, shared with the wider campus.
- GymnasiumSports academy · 07:00–19:00, Mon–Sat
- Swimming poolSports academy · 07:00–19:00, Mon–Sat
- Yoga studio
- Ayurveda and wellness centre
- Gardens and walking paths
- Bookshop
- Polarity
- Departmental Store
- Books & More
- Sports & Fitness
- Children's Park
- Rainforest
- Tissue Culture Lab
The setting
A place shaped by its surroundings.
Kanha Shanti Vanam was largely barren ground before it was planted. What stands now is restored woodland, a nursery, formal gardens and open water - and at its centre Babuji Vanam, described by its makers as the world's first energy transmission garden: forty tree species, medicinal planting, a central water body and gravel pathways laid for walking barefoot. The meditation hall was built for a hundred thousand people and is most days almost empty. None of this belongs to the hotel. The hotel simply sits inside it, which is the whole proposition.
Kanha Shanti Vanam is a Heartfulness campus. The Pearl is its hotel.
- ABOUT KANHA SHANTI VANAM -Places within Kanha Shanti Vanam
First you rest.Then you wander.
There is more to a day here than the room you booked. Everything below is a short walk away, and the hours fill themselves, morning and night.
Sacred Botanical Groves
Babuji Vanam
Forty sacred native tree species chosen to absorb and radiate tranquility, arranged with circular brick clearings and peaceful shaded walks.
Architecture & Silence
The Meditation Hall
The world’s largest meditation hall with a soaring lattice roof. Free guided sessions open daily to every guest with certified trainers.
Art & Contemplation
Inner Peace Museum
An experiential museum of meditative art, installations, and serene exhibits arranged to be walked through slowly.
Conservation & Saplings
The Green Nurseries
Millions of indigenous saplings nurtured across sprawling campus beds, driving vast ecological restoration across the region.
Rural Heritage & Sanctuary
The Goshala
A traditional shelter and ethical sanctuary home to more than a hundred indigenous cows and calves cared for with devotion in peaceful pastoral surroundings.
Literature & Curated Craft
Books & More
A sunlit bookstore and library with comfortable reading lounges, offering literature on meditation and wellness alongside handcrafted artisan keepsakes.
Woodland Nature Trails
Yatra Garden Trails
Twelve kilometres of stone and forest pathways through restored woodlands, water features, and formal plantings, best at first light.
Sacred Botanical Groves
Babuji Vanam
Forty sacred native tree species chosen to absorb and radiate tranquility, arranged with circular brick clearings and peaceful shaded walks.
Architecture & Silence
The Meditation Hall
The world’s largest meditation hall with a soaring lattice roof. Free guided sessions open daily to every guest with certified trainers.
Art & Contemplation
Inner Peace Museum
An experiential museum of meditative art, installations, and serene exhibits arranged to be walked through slowly.
Conservation & Saplings
The Green Nurseries
Millions of indigenous saplings nurtured across sprawling campus beds, driving vast ecological restoration across the region.
Rural Heritage & Sanctuary
The Goshala
A traditional shelter and ethical sanctuary home to more than a hundred indigenous cows and calves cared for with devotion in peaceful pastoral surroundings.
Literature & Curated Craft
Books & More
A sunlit bookstore and library with comfortable reading lounges, offering literature on meditation and wellness alongside handcrafted artisan keepsakes.
Woodland Nature Trails
Yatra Garden Trails
Twelve kilometres of stone and forest pathways through restored woodlands, water features, and formal plantings, best at first light.
Sacred Botanical Groves
Babuji Vanam
Forty sacred native tree species chosen to absorb and radiate tranquility, arranged with circular brick clearings and peaceful shaded walks.
Architecture & Silence
The Meditation Hall
The world’s largest meditation hall with a soaring lattice roof. Free guided sessions open daily to every guest with certified trainers.
Art & Contemplation
Inner Peace Museum
An experiential museum of meditative art, installations, and serene exhibits arranged to be walked through slowly.
Conservation & Saplings
The Green Nurseries
Millions of indigenous saplings nurtured across sprawling campus beds, driving vast ecological restoration across the region.
Rural Heritage & Sanctuary
The Goshala
A traditional shelter and ethical sanctuary home to more than a hundred indigenous cows and calves cared for with devotion in peaceful pastoral surroundings.
Literature & Curated Craft
Books & More
A sunlit bookstore and library with comfortable reading lounges, offering literature on meditation and wellness alongside handcrafted artisan keepsakes.
Woodland Nature Trails
Yatra Garden Trails
Twelve kilometres of stone and forest pathways through restored woodlands, water features, and formal plantings, best at first light.
While you are here
Beyond the room.
Nothing here is a package. Everything is available, and none of it is scheduled for you.
Nature
Walk the gardens
Twelve kilometres of paths through restored woodland, formal planting and water. Best at first light.
Wellness
Yoga and Ayurveda
A Heartfulness yoga studio and Kerala Ayurveda treatments at the wellness centre, which opened in 2022.
Stillness
Sit, if you would like to
Meditation is offered on the campus every day. It is available to every guest and required of none.
Discover
Explore the campus
The nursery, the bookshop, the workshops and the gardens-an afternoon's worth, without leaving the grounds.
Dining
Gather around the table.
One restaurant, cooking for the hotel and for the people who came to the campus.
The Pearl Restaurant
The hotel's dining room, looking out over planting on three sides. Buffet service at each meal with an à la carte menu alongside, and food for a group of two hundred handled with the same attention as a table for two.
- Cuisine
- Multi-cuisine, vegetarian
- Meals
- Breakfast · Lunch · Dinner
- Service
- Buffet · À la carte
- Hours
- 07:00 – 23:00
- Seats
- 120 covers
Meetings and occasions
Spaces to come together.
Rooms, food and beds on one site, so a two-day meeting does not become a logistics exercise.
Meetings
Conference hall 840 sq ft · Boardroom 24
A conference room of 840 sq ft, and a boardroom seating twenty-four. Residential meetings are the hotel's most natural fit.
ENQUIRE
Retreats
2 to 10 nights
Programmes run from two nights to ten, built around rest rather than around a schedule. Run with the campus wellness team.
ENQUIRE
Celebrations
Banquet 3,041 sq ft · 325 reception
A banquet hall of 3,041 sq ft with 1,350 sq ft of pre-function space - 275 theatre, 325 reception, 180 on rounds.
ENQUIRE
Group gatherings
Campus venues, on request
For anything larger, the campus has its own venues, bookable alongside a stay. They are Kanha's rooms rather than the hotel's - we will say which is which.
ENQUIRE
The Pearl difference
More than a stay.
The Pearl belongs to a movement rather than to an investor - it changes where the money goes. What a night here earns returns to the campus around it: the gardens, the nursery, the schools and the free medical centre. You will not be asked to take part in any of it. It is simply what your stay is doing while you sleep.
Thoughtful
A pace set by the guest, not by the schedule.
Purposeful
Revenue that returns to the place it was earned in.
Guests
What our guests say.
Verified reviews are being connected.
Guest reviews will publish here directly from Google Business Profile and the hotel's post-stay survey, with the guest's name, date and source shown on every card. Nothing is written by us, and nothing appears here until it is verified.
Questions
Frequently
asked questions.
If the answer is not here, reservations will have it.
The portfolio
Other Pearl hotels.
Three destinations, one way of doing things.
The Pearl, Kanha
Kanha Shanti Vanam, Telangana
The flagship. Forty-four rooms inside a restored campus, forty-five minutes from Hyderabad’s international airport.
VIEW HOTEL
The Pearl, Satkhol
Satkhol, Uttarakhand
A Himalayan stay within the Satkhol ashram environment, with well-appointed rooms, gathering spaces, dining and access to retreats.
VIEW HOTEL
In development
The Pearl, Shajapur
Shajapur, Madhya Pradesh
The Pearl has identified Shajapur, Madhya Pradesh as a property location. Detailed public property information is not yet available.
VIEW HOTEL
The Pearl, Kanha
Your stay begins here.
Find your Pearl. Send your dates and a reservations manager will come back with availability, rates and anything else you need to know.