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Every photograph here was taken at Semal or in the forests around it. No stock, no borrowed views. This is the house as it looks when you walk up the steps for the first time.

Semal at dusk with a flowering tree in front

The house at dusk

A Semal bedroom in morning light

A garden room, early

Fields around Semal at the end of the day

Fields at the end of the day

A block printed cushion detail at Semal

Block print, chosen by hand

The living room and staircase at Semal

Living room and stairs

The forest edge near Semal in low light

Where the trees begin

A bathroom at Semal

Hot water, all day

Toiletries on a bathroom shelf

Kind to the earth

A tiger resting in shallow water

A tiger, cooling off

A tiger marking a tree in the forest

Marking the territory

A spotted deer standing in a sunlit clearing in a dark forest

A fawn in the clearing

An owl perched on a branch in the leafy canopy

An owl in the canopy

A white-eye bird perched on a branch of red silk cotton flowers

White-eye on a Semal blossom

A langur holding her baby, in black and white

Langur and baby

A black and white butterfly perched on a green leaf

Butterfly on a leaf

Tall white plumes of kans grass

Kans grass in the wind

A tiered stand of chutneys and snacks on a wooden table on the verandah

Chutneys and snacks

A red blossom in the garden

Red, like the tree we are named for

The library seating area

The mezzanine, mid afternoon

A twin bedroom

A twin room

Rain over the land at Semal

Monsoon, from the verandah

A writing desk and chair

Somewhere to write it down

The self service tea and coffee counter at Semal

Help yourself, any hour

Open land around Semal

The walk out from the gate

A room with a wardrobe and mezzanine

The family room

A tiger drinking from a forest pool

A drink at the pool

A herd of spotted deer drinking at a waterhole

Spotted deer at the waterhole

A deer looking up from tall golden grass

Deer in the tall grass

A woodpecker with a red crest clinging to a tree trunk

Woodpecker on the trunk

A sunbird feeding on pink flowers on a flowering branch

Sunbird on a flowering branch

A large spider waiting at the centre of its web among green leaves

A spider in its web

Butterflies resting on a rock in the forest

Butterflies on a rock

Hands shaping clay on a potters wheel

Hands on the wheel

A dining table laid for a meal on the shaded verandah

The verandah table

Dusk falling over the trees at Semal

Last light

The front of the house in daylight

The front, in daylight

A mezzanine bedroom at Semal

Up a level

The living room at Semal

The chair everyone claims

Fields and forest around Semal

Farmland, then forest

The mezzanine library at Semal

Borrow one, leave one

Open fields and forest edge around Semal

Before the safari run

A walking track through the fields at Semal

The track to the village

A tiger standing in green forest undergrowth

Tiger in the undergrowth

A stag standing at the edge of still water with its reflection

Stag and reflection

A deer lying in a green meadow with pools of water

A deer in the meadow

A weaver bird at its hanging woven nest

A weaver at its nest

A jackal resting on red earth at dusk

Jackal at dusk

A brown butterfly resting with its wings folded

A butterfly, wings folded

A cluster of yellow and spotted butterflies gathered on damp ground

Butterflies, gathered

A tiered stand of snacks laid out on a table above green fields

Hi-tea, laid out

Fresh baked bread and butter on a wooden board

Bread, fresh

Photographs only go so far. The birds at six in the morning are the part we cannot show you.

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