Kairali — The Ayurvedic Healing Village · Since 1908

Villas Gallery

The patient cottages and rooms of the hospital: brick and stone villas with tiled roofs, verandahs and garden-facing doors, photographed as they are furnished.

29 photographs · 2 chapters

Corner view of a laterite-brick villa with lattice bay window; vine-covered tree trunk in foreground.

Villa exteriors

14 photographs

The villas are single cottages of brick, laterite or stone with tiled gabled roofs, arched porches and red-oxide steps, set on lawns beside the water channel. Several carry their room numbers and names at the porch.

Wide view of two laterite-brick patient villas along the landscaped water channel with stone pathways.
Laterite-brick villa with blue arched porch and lattice bay windows viewed across the water channel.
Entrance porch of patient cottage 305 with laterite stone pillars; black granite steps; rocking chair.
Arched stone entrance porch of Suite 1001 with Kairali name board; white rattan chairs and table.
The Suite 1001 stone porch with Kairali 1001 sign; rattan chair with heliconia flowers in a glass vase.
Round stone patient cottages with bay windows amid coconut palms.
Front elevation of a brick cottage (room 211 Chithira) with ornamental brick pillars; arched doorway.
Ground-level view of a brick treatment-village cottage with yellow trim.
Cluster of brick and stone patient cottages with tiled roofs among tall coconut palms; lawns.
Elevated view of two brick treatment cottages with tiled roofs set in landscaped lawns among tall trees.
Entrance gate with Kairali The Ayurvedic Healing Village signboard in wood at left.
Patient cottage with patterned brickwork and tiled roof set on a manicured lawn ringed by curved paths.
Cottage porch with rattan chair and side table on red-oxide steps.
Front elevation of a stone-and-brick patient villa with arched granite entrance porch.

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Patient rooms

15 photographs

Rooms have wooden beds with white linen, vaulted or terracotta-inlaid ceilings, red-oxide or patterned tile floors and a carved door opening onto a private verandah. Twin and double-bed layouts are both shown.

Brass four-poster style bed against exposed brick wall with white pointing.
View through open wooden door into twin brass-bed room; brick walls with white pointing; terracotta-tiled gable ceiling.
Twin-bed patient room with white linen; olive cushions; venetian blinds; illuminated stained-glass wall niche.
Patient room with wooden double bed; white linen and olive cushions; pale green walls.
Patient room 205 with wooden bed; exposed-beam ceiling with green trim.
Twin-bed patient room with exposed brick walls; white linen; bedside lamp; writing desk with mirror.
Curved-wall patient room with double bed with white linen; sitting area with two armchairs; TV unit; oxide red floor.
Sitting corner of curved-wall patient room: two upholstered armchairs; small table with tender coconuts and fruit.
Interior of a circular patient room with domed ceiling with wooden inlays; four-poster bed with white linen.
Patient room with double bed; white linen; wooden platform bed; Kerala mural artwork above the headboard.
Twin-bedded patient room with dark wood beds; olive cushions; exposed terracotta ceiling inserts.
Deluxe patient room with king bed; sloped copper-toned panelled ceiling with blue cornice.
Twin-bed patient room with pale pink walls; curved ceiling with terracotta inlay pattern.
Twin-bed room with vaulted ceiling with terracotta diamond accents; geometric brick niche wall feature; maroon curtains.
Twin-bed room with vaulted white ceiling decorated with terracotta discs and a brick cornice band; ochre curtains.