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A boutique stay in Naggar, Himachal Pradesh, for people who travel with intention.
Kanishk Godha spent years as a software engineer moving between cities, never quite settling. The work was fine. The life felt borrowed. The one thing he knew for certain: he loved hosting people.
His cofounder is a filmmaker with an eye for space. The kind of person who walks into a room and immediately sees what it should be.
Together they decided to build a place. They looked at almost every corner of Himachal Pradesh. Sissu. Bir. Jibhi. Valley after valley, village after village. Each one had something right and something that didn't fit. The search went on long enough that it started to feel like the place might not exist.
Then Kanishk ended up in Naggar, not because he planned to but because the road took him there. He got out, walked around, and didn't leave. The quiet was different here. The village moved at its own pace and didn't apologise for it. There was history: the Nicholas Roerich estate a short walk downhill, a 500-year-old fort, temples older than that. And yes, enough good cafes that you could actually live here. He stopped looking.
CCC took shape slowly and almost entirely by hand. Every piece of furniture is custom made. The curtains, the lights, the door knobs, even the paint on the walls is custom mixed. Nothing bought off a shelf if they could help it. Most of it built by the two of them.
Curious Cat Cottage opened in January 2026. Five rooms, a specialty coffee cafe, a library, and a bonfire on cold nights. Guests arrive planning two nights and rebook for a week.
Naggar is a village on a ridge above the Beas river in the Kullu Valley, Himachal Pradesh. Once the ancient capital of the Kullu Kingdom, it sits 26 km south of Manali at 1,760 metres and moves at a pace that the rest of Himachal has mostly abandoned.
The Nicholas Roerich Art Gallery and the artist's preserved home are a 10-minute walk downhill from the cottage. Naggar Castle, a 500-year-old fort with valley views, is 5 minutes downhill. The village has a growing community of independent cafes, artists, and long-stay travellers.
It is, as guests regularly put it, the Manali they were actually looking for.
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