Visiting a working coffee estate in Mudigere: what guests found

Nandipura is a working coffee estate, not a resort. There is no gate and no front desk. People who come up the hill are shown the blocks, walk the drying yard, meet the dogs and stay for coffee that was picked a few hundred metres away. It costs nothing, and it happens by arrangement rather than on a schedule.

Key takeaways

• Visits to Nandipura & Indravally Estates in Mudigere, Chikmagalur are by request and free of charge.
• A homestay is being planned. Nothing can be booked yet.
• The estate's Google profile showed a 5.0 rating across 20 reviews in August 2026, and almost every written review is about visiting rather than buying.

What is there to see on a coffee estate?

The estate sits at 3,400 feet in Mudigere taluk, and the coffee grows under jackfruit, ficus, fig and Malabar plum rather than rows of silver oak. Black pepper climbs the same shade trees. Lemons and avocados grow alongside, and most of what reaches the table was picked on the estate that morning.

Our own bees are kept for pollination first and honey second. They work the coffee blossom in season. Anne-Laure Hennequin, who visited in flowering time, described the scent better than we can:

"The scent of the coffee blossoms is mesmerizing: a bit jasminy and orangy, with some lemontree blossom nuances."

There are ponds on the property, held between forest and open ground. They were built for irrigation, but they are the part of the estate most guests photograph.

What do guests say about the estate?

The written reviews on Google are short and specific. They are reproduced here as written.

Seetal Iyer wrote about the house and the land around it:

"A charming bungalow surrounded by a seemingly neverending stretch of green — flowering and fruit laden trees, pepper, patches of vegetable gardens, sun kissed skies at dusk, mooing cows and friendly faces, green water bodies… what more could one want!"

Alok Manav wrote about the nights:

"There's pin drop silence, and you can see every single star in the sky."

Sahil Balimane, who came with friends, wrote about the work itself:

"There is so much to learn about the process behind the coffee plantation and all the other activities that go on."

Fawaz Labeeb called it "a truly self-sufficient farmland", which is close to how the estate thinks of itself: coffee, pepper, honey and fruit off the same ground.

How do you arrange a visit?

Call or message the estate on +91 81052 59005, or use the enquiry form. Say when you would like to come and how many of you there are. Visits depend on what the estate is doing that week.

The road runs off the Chikmagalur road, well past the last of the resorts. The visit page has the location and what to expect when you arrive.

Is there a homestay?

One is being planned. It is not open, and nothing on this site takes a booking. If you would like to hear when it opens, leave your details on the visit page and the estate will write when there is something real to offer.

Until then, the best introduction to the place is the one most of these reviewers had: an afternoon on the estate, a walk through the blocks, and a cup of the coffee. If you want to know more about the land first, read what a Chikmagalur coffee estate looks like from the inside.