Beforest - Immersive Experiences in Nature

Upcoming Experiences

Discover journeys shaped by seasons, collectives, and living landscapes.

The Rock Show

What if we told you Hyderabad's greatest heritage isn't Biryani, but its rocks?Hosted in collaboration with Outdoor Classroom - The Rock Show is an immersive experience that explores the ancient monolithic landscapes that shaped the Deccan Plateau and the city of Hyderabad.Through stories, rock climbing, hikes, food, conversations, and guided explorations, participants will discover the remarkable geological history hidden in plain sight - landscapes that have existed for millions of years and continue to define the character of the region today.But this isn't just about geology, it's about culture!The rocks of the Deccan are among the oldest visible landscapes on Earth. They have witnessed continents drift, species evolve, and civilizations rise and fall. Yet within a few decades, many of these formations have been quarried, blasted, and built over.Unlike forests, they cannot regenerate.The Rock Show is an invitation to look again - to notice the landscapes we often overlook, understand why they matter, and reconnect with a part of Hyderabad's identity that is slowly disappearing.The experience takes place at the 132 acre Beforest Hyderabad Collective, one of the few places where the original Deccan rockscape still stands largely intact and where we continue learning how to live with the land, rather than over it.You'll never see rocks the same way again!

Next: Jul 11 - Jul 12, 2026

3 upcoming sessions

HyderabadView Experience

Limited Edition

Wild School: Hyderabad

What if the most important classroom was outside all along?Wild School is a 3-day immersive wilderness experience for children aged 9–12, hosted within the regenerated 132-acre Beforest Hyderabad Collective.Over three days, children cook with rocks, care for cows and farm, hike rocky hills, swim in lakes, create nature art, explore after dark, and learn to navigate the outdoors with confidence and curiosity.Guided by Certified Wilderness facilitators, every activity is thoughtfully designed to encourage independence, resilience, curiosity and a deeper connection with nature!Before there were classrooms, there were rivers to follow, stars to question, and stories carried by the wind. For most of human history, the world itself was our teacher.Wild School is an invitation to return to that way of learning.With no screens, they rediscover the simple joy of making real connections with each other, and with the quiet rhythm of the land.With only 6 participants, the experience ensures every child is seen, supported, and encouraged to participate at their own pace.A few days in the wild can change how children see nature. Sometimes, it changes how they see themselves too!

Jul 15 - Jul 17, 2026

HyderabadView Experience

Nature Led

The Jungle Book of Secrets

The forest leaves clues everywhere, are you looking?Set within the 300-acre Poomaale Collective in Coorg, this three-day biodiversity experience unfolds across a living landscape of forests, grasslands, streams, and ongoing ecological restoration.For a few weeks each year post monsoon, the forest reveals what it keeps hidden the rest of the time. As the land awakens after the monsoon, frogs emerge from hidden corners, fungi appear overnight, reptiles bask in fleeting sunlight, and the forest hums with life. Every fallen log, puddle, and patch of leaf litter seems to hold a secret waiting to be discovered.Exploring alongside experienced naturalists, you'll learn to slow down, follow clues, and notice the stories unfolding all around you. This isn't about chasing sightings or ticking species off a list. It's about understanding the relationships that shape a thriving ecosystem and discovering what becomes visible when you begin to look more closely.Created for nature enthusiasts, wildlife lovers, students, and curious explorers, The Jungle Book of Secrets offers a rare opportunity to experience the forest at one of its most dynamic moments of the year.You may leave with muddy boots, a camera full of photographs, and a hundred new questions.But more than anything, you'll return seeing the forest differently.

Expected in August 2026

CoorgView Experience

Nature Led

The Fungi Foray

Meet the Forest's Greatest Engineers!For a brief window after the monsoon, the forest reveals one of its richest displays of fungal life. Delicate coral fungi, tiny cup fungi, glowing mushrooms, and countless other forms emerge from the damp forest floor, transforming it almost overnight. Some last only hours, others a few days, before quietly disappearing once again.Beneath this fleeting spectacle lies one of nature's most important kingdoms. Fungi recycle fallen wood, return nutrients to the soil, form vast underground partnerships with plants, and help sustain the intricate relationships that keep forests alive. Some even play a role in influencing local weather patterns!Join us for a three-day immersive fungi trail through Beforest's 300-acre Poomaale Collective in Coorg. Bordering the Brahmagiri Forest Reserve, the post-monsoon rains bring an explosion of fungal life across the rainforest, transforming the forest floor into a living gallery of shapes, colours, and textures.Guided by experienced naturalists, you'll discover a world that's easy to overlook—one that reshapes the way you see the forest beneath your feet.This isn't your average nature walk. This is stepping into a world only few people get to see. This is the one you'll tell stories about!

Expected in September 2026

CoorgView Experience

Recurring

SloMo

In a world that won’t slow down, this land sets a different pace!3 days. Camping under the stars. 12 people. Countless slow moments.In the world outside, everything moves fast - notifications, deadlines, traffic, noise.At Hammiyala, time moves differently.Tucked within a 108-acre collective between the Kottebetta and Mandalpatti ranges, in the lush Pushpagiri forest landscape of Coorg, Hammiyala is a place where mist rolls slowly across hills, forests breathe quietly around you, and the sky feels impossibly wide.SloMo is our invitation to experience this landscape the way nature intended - slowly.Over three days and two nights, you’ll camp under the misty skies and settle into the rhythm of the land. Mornings begin with misty horizons, afternoons stretch into long forest walks, and evenings gather around a warm fire as the hills fade into night.One of the highlights of the experience is a 4 km guided hike along an unexplored trail in the Kottebetta range. The trail winds through quiet forests before opening out to breathtaking ridge walks and sweeping views of the surrounding hills - the kind that make you pause, breathe, and simply take it all in.But the real magic isn’t just where you are - it’s how you experience it. When you slow down, the forest begins to reveal itself: the texture of moss under your fingers, the distant calls of birds across valleys, the quiet movement of clouds drifting over the Western Ghats.To keep the experience intimate and immersive, the experience is limited to just 12 participants - small enough for meaningful conversations, and quiet enough for the land to be heard.For three days, the forest sets the pace.And somewhere between a misty sunrise, a ridge-top view, and a quiet night under the stars, something shifts.You stop chasing moments.You start noticing them.

Expected in October 2026

CoorgView Experience

Recurring

Starry Nights

Astronomy meets wilderness!In collaboration with Outdoor Classroom. Just outside the city, the skies open up to reveal a world we rarely see anymore. Starry Nights is an overnight camping experience - a night guided by experts, high-powered telescopes, and the quiet magic of nature.You’ll trace Jupiter and its moons, Saturn’s shimmering rings, and the bright winter constellations of Orion and Taurus. A lot many constellations and star studded sky - visible in perfect clarity thanks to the absence of light pollution.The experience unfolds at 132+ acre Beforest Collective, where you’ll spend the evening under open skies, listening to star stories and sharing warmth around a campfire. As dawn arrives, wake to the calls of birds echoing across the hills and set out on a short hike up the fort to witness the sunrise painting the forest below.It’s not just stargazing! it’s an invitation to pause, look up, and remember what it feels like to be awed by the night sky.

Expected in November 2026

HyderabadView Experience

Flagship

The Coffee Safari

For those who believe coffee is more than a drink - it’s a journey.At our 300+ acre Poomaale Collective in Coorg, coffee is grown the way forests intend - under native shade trees, alongside birds, insects, and wild mammals, within one of the biodiversity hotspots in the world. This is not a plantation visit. It’s a rare chance to step into a landscape where coffee and wilderness exist together.Because farming here is forest-first and slow, biodiversity thrives, and that biodiversity shapes every cup. Soil health, shade, rainfall, fermentation, and time come together to create coffees that are complex, balanced, and deeply rooted in place. This is specialty coffee at its source - unhurried, intentional, and alive.Over the experience, you’ll walk rainforest trails, handpick cherries, explore processing and fermentation, and brew coffee right where it grows. You’ll taste coffees in different stages of their journey while being part of a mesmerizing landscape. Explore waterfalls, hike to Shola grassland and have picnic by the stream!Designed for coffee lovers, slow travellers, couples, and curious families, the Coffee Safari is a rare blend of learning, wilderness, and luxury - where we get access to something most people never get to see.Join the Coffee Safari. Come experience the wild side of specialty coffee

Expected in January 2027

CoorgView Experience

About Beforest Experiences

Journeys into landscapes that are being restored, remembered, and lived with.

Beforest Experiences are invitations to spend time inside living food forests, collectives, and seasonal landscapes shaped by regeneration. Some are slow weekends with families, some follow rare natural phenomena, and some are led by people who help us see soil, water, food, and community differently.

Each experience is designed to be intimate, grounded, and useful: a way to understand the land through walks, meals, conversations, hands-on work, and quiet observation. You leave with more than an itinerary. You leave with a relationship to a place.

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Previous Experiences

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Last held Jun 28, 2026

A Monsoon Welcome

What do you want your family to experience this monsoon - traffic jams or waterfalls?A Monsoon Welcome is a 3-day, 2-night immersive family experience hosted from 26–28 June 2026 within the 300+ acre Beforest Poomaale Collective in Coorg.Designed around the arrival of monsoon in the rainforest, the experience brings together guided nature walks, waterfall hikes, stream explorations, biodiversity discovery, nature-inspired activities, and unhurried family time in one of the most biodiverse landscapes in the world.Only 6 families will be part of this edition.This is the time when the forest comes fully alive. Streams turn wild, mist drifts through the rainforest, frogs begin calling through the night, and every trail bursts with life and every possible shade of green.Families spend their days walking through forests, crossing flowing streams, discovering the biodiversity that thrives during this season, and sometimes, simply getting drenched in the rain together.But beyond the exploration, there is something deeply nostalgic about experiencing monsoon this way — slowing down with warm meals, watching the rain from the bungalow, drying off after a long walk, and sharing the kind of moments that quietly stay with you long after the season has passed.Every walk, activity, and pause is thoughtfully designed and gently guided by expert facilitators and naturalists to help families experience the forest, and each other more deeply.Far away from crowded tourist destinations, this is an invitation to experience monsoon not through a window, but from within the rainforest itself.Because some monsoons are meant to be lived, not waited out.

CoorgView

May 5 - May 9, 2026

Wild School

Not all learning happens in classrooms. Some of it begins in the wild!Set within the 300+ acre Poomaale Collective in Coorg, Wild School is a curated, nature-based experience designed for (10-16 year old) children to step out of overstimulated urban environments into a living, breathing conserved landscape.This is not a camp of activities, but a hands-on journey through forests, grasslands, streams and hidden trails - where children explore, observe and learn directly from the nature around them. From hikes to time spent by waterfalls and streams, every part of the experience unfolds within the safety of our private land, allowing for both freedom and care.Through hands-on experiences like foraging, cooking, learning outdoor skills, and observing alongside naturalists, children don’t just stay engaged - they grow more confident, empathetic, and grounded.With no screens, they rediscover the simple joy of making real connections with each other, and with the quiet rhythm of the land.The program is consciously curated by trained and experienced facilitators who take great joy in introducing outdoors to children. We have both male and female facilitators, certified in Wilderness First Aid ensuring to balance exploration with safety. The landscape itself becomes the teacher - located in one of the world's biodiversity hotspots, being home to endemic and rare species, with fireflies and stars lighting up the forest.Limited batch size of 15 participants, intentional design, and a deeply immersive setting ensure that every child is seen, supported, and gently encouraged to slow down, notice more, and engage with nature in a meaningful way.A few days here don’t just fill time - they change how children see the world.

CoorgView

Last held Apr 26, 2026

The Glowing Forest

For a few nights each year, the forest learns to glow!Fireflies. Conserved Landscape. One unforgettable spectacle.For a few nights each year, the forests of Coorg begin to glow. As dusk deepens, thousands of fireflies rise from the forest floor, their quiet pulses of light flickering through the trees - turning the landscape into a living constellation.Soon it becomes impossible to tell where the forest ends and the stars begin.The Glowing Forest is our invitation to witness this rare phenomenon from Beforest landscapes - where nature still thrives, undisturbed.Over 3 days and 2 nights, you slow down to the rhythm of the forest. Walk quiet trails. Listen to the wild. Watch the night come alive with light.But this is more than just witnessing a spectacle.Joining us is Dr. Mathi Thumilan - conservationist, firefly expert, and co-founder of Wild & Dark Earth (WiDE), contributor to the IUCN Firefly Specialist Group and National Geographic Explorer initiative. With him, the glowing forest becomes a story of ecology, understanding the forest rhythm, and why spaces like these must be protected.To experience this phenomenon in two distinct landscapes, we’re hosting two intimate groups.Hammiyala Collective17-19 April | Camping under the starsSet within a 108-acre hilltop forest, Hammiyala offers the rawest way to experience the glowing forest. Here you’ll camp beneath ancient trees, where fireflies flicker through the canopy and the mist drapes the whole landscape.Poomaale Collectives24-26 April | Blyton bungalow stayWithin the 304-acre Poomaale rainforest collectives, you’ll stay at the Blyton Bungalow, overlooking the dense rainforest. Nominated among ArchDaily’s Best Buildings of 2025, this architectural gem offers a comfortable stay deep within one of the richest biodiversity landscapes on the planet.Some experiences are beautiful. Some are rare. This one is both!A forest glowing with fireflies beneath a sky full of stars is something you never quite forget.

CoorgView

Last held Mar 1, 2026

Starry Nights: Mumbai

Six planets will line the sky and you’re invited to witness it!On the night of February 28, the sky over the Mumbai Beforest Collective opens into something extraordinary - a six-planet parade. After sunset, Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune will appear across the sky in a sweeping arc. With experienced sky facilitators and telescopes, you’ll see these planets closer than ever before. We will also observe the moon - its craters and shadows in striking detail thanks to its waxing phase lighting up the night.But this experience is way deeper than spotting things in the sky. It’s a guided encounter with our solar neighbourhood - understanding how these worlds move, why they appear where they do and all the secrets they hide! Through expert storytellers both kids and adults (beginners and enthusiasts alike) understand and connect with the cosmos. The experience unfolds at the 100+ acre Beforest Collective near Mumbai, surrounded by wild hills and open horizons. Away from light pollution, with limited batch size this rare celestial spectacle becomes accessible, immersive and deeply memorable.Conversations by the bonfire and camping under a moon-lit sky carry the night forward. At dawn, a magical sunrise and birdsong welcome you back to earth.This isn’t just a stargazing night - it’s a pause. A chance to look up, breathe deep, and remember how infinite wonder can feel.A night that makes the universe feel close enough to touch.

MumbaiView

Last held Feb 28, 2026

Hands & Soil

A Saturday that helps you connect with land.Hands & Soil is a farm-volunteering experience at the Beforest Hyderabad Collective, created for those who want to step away from screens and spend a day doing something real, grounding, and deeply satisfying.This is not a commercial farm or a productivity-driven setup. The Beforest Collective is a fully organic, living landscape, guided by permaculture principles - where soil health, biodiversity, and long-term balance matter more than yield. What you step into is not just a farm, but an ecosystem being carefully nurtured.There’s no fixed agenda here. Each session responds to what the land needs that day. You may be harvesting, planting, mulching, composting, watering, or helping with everyday upkeep. Some days offer harvests; others offer care. Both are equally essential.What you gain isn’t instant output, but perspective. Time working with your hands, understanding how food grows in a regenerative system, and experiencing the quiet satisfaction that comes from patience, effort, and showing up - even when the reward isn’t immediate.The day includes a simple farm-to-table meal, prepared using what’s grown on the land - honest food that tastes better because you’ve been part of the process.Timing: 10 am – 4 pmGroup size: Limited to 10 participantsChildren who are comfortable with physical farm work and can engage independently are welcome.Hands & Soil is for anyone craving a slower Saturday, a deeper relationship with food, and the quiet fulfilment of contributing to something real.Get your hands dirty. Connect with the land.

HyderabadView

Feb 22, 2026

Forest Ranger Experience

Not visitors. Not tourists. For a day, your family becomes forest rangers.Set within the 122-acre Beforest Bhopal Collective - a landscape under ecological restoration. This experience unfolds on land once impacted by quarrying and over-extraction, now being carefully regenerated - with rebuilding soil, restoring natural water systems, and bringing back native biodiversity.Bordering the forests of Ratapani Tiger Reserve, people step beyond sightseeing and into participation. Guided by naturalists Dr. Sameer and DP Shrivastava, you move through the landscape with awareness — noticing pugmarks, bird calls, textures, and the lesser known residents of the forest.This is not about chasing wildlife or ticking sightings. It’s about curiosity, shared discovery and relaxed time in the forest!All meals are thoughtfully served outdoors beneath the forest canopy, prepared with fresh, organic ingredients. This is an experience in itself!Breakfast unfolds under open skies, lunch is laid out deep within the woods, and evening snacks arrive at sunset - timed with the landscape turning gold. You dine immersed in the wild, accompanied only by birdsong and shifting light.While the collective lies close to protected forests, every exploration is guided and designed with safety in mind. The day unfolds gently, with time to pause and enjoy the rare luxury of an afternoon nap under the trees. Participants leave feeling enriched, restored, and deeply connected.Limited to just 12 participants, this experience ensures personal attention, unrushed exploration, and meaningful connection - both with nature and with each other.A day that changes how you see forests!

BhopalView

Last held Jun 28, 2026