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Built from
the ground up.
Literally.
A rugged off-roading hillside. An eighteen-year-old with no background in hospitality. A vision for what luxury in the desert could look like. The rest is Teela.
WHAT TEELA IS
Not a hotel. Not a camp.
Something entirely its own.
Teela began as a hillside in Jaipur's Aravalli foothills — rugged, quiet, and used by a family for off-roading weekends. In 2021, an eighteen-year-old named Garvita Mamodiya looked at the same land and saw something different: a place where the landscape itself could be the luxury. Where silence was the amenity. Where guests could come not to be entertained, but to actually rest.
In a year, she transformed that hillside into Teela — eight Moon Domes and four Luna Airstreams spread across 45 acres, designed around the hill rather than imposed upon it. No trees were cut. No shortcuts were taken. When it opened in 2022, India had something it hadn't had before: a glamping resort built by someone who cared more about the experience than the category.
18
GARVITA'S AGE WHEN SHE STARTED
No hospitality background. No playbook. Just a clear vision and a hill.
45
ACRES OF PRIVATE HILLSIDE
Spread across the Aravalli foothills. No neighbouring properties in sight.
2022
YEAR TEELA OPENED
One year from vision to opening. From rugged terrain to India's most distinctive glamping resort.
2024
BEST DEBUT RESORT, NORTH INDIA
Travel & Tourism Annual Conclave & Awards. The recognition that followed naturally.
Garvita Mamodiya
FOUNDER, TEELA THE GLAMPING RESORT
THE FOUNDER
Built by someone who
refused the obvious.
Garvita Mamodiya was eighteen when she decided to build a luxury glamping resort. She had no background in hospitality. She had a hillside, a vision, and the particular stubbornness of someone who hasn't yet been told what isn't possible.
The land had belonged to her father — acquired in 2012 for off-roading weekends. When Garvita looked at it in 2021, she saw something different: terrain that most developers would have flattened, she chose to build around. Trees that would have been cleared, she left standing. A hill that could have been hidden behind construction, she made the point of the whole thing.
Teela opened in 2022. In 2024, it was recognised as Best Debut Resort in North India at the Travel & Tourism Annual Conclave & Awards. Garvita continues to oversee every detail of the property — because that is the only way Teela stays what it is.
How it happened
The story, in
five moments.
From an off-roading weekend destination to one of Rajasthan's most distinctive escapes. Here is how Teela came to be.
2012
The beginning
Land acquired.
Garvita's father acquires a rugged stretch of Aravalli hillside on the outskirts of Jaipur — chosen for its terrain, its remoteness, and the particular pleasure of driving across it on weekends. A family off-roading destination. Nothing more, for now.
2015
First idea
An adventure park explored.
The first concept for the land: an adventure park, capitalising on the natural terrain. The idea is explored, developed, then set aside. The hill, it turns out, has more potential than a weekend activity destination.
2021
The vision
Garvita sees something different.
Fresh out of school at eighteen, with no hospitality background and no precedent to follow, Garvita Mamodiya decides the land should become a glamping resort. Not a hotel with tents. Something genuinely designed around the landscape — where the hill is the product, and everything else serves it.
2022
OPENING
Teela opens.
Teela Resort officially opens — eight Moon Domes spread across the Aravalli hillside, each with its own view and private deck. No trees were cut during construction. The spaces flow with the natural contours of the land rather than against them. India has a new kind of luxury escape.
2024
Expansion & recognition
Luna Airstreams. A national award.
Two Luna Airstream Caravans are added — Teela's most indulgent offering, each with a private jacuzzi and star deck. The same year, the property is recognised as Best Debut Resort in North India at the Travel & Tourism Annual Conclave & Awards. The hill that began as a weekend off-roading ground is now one of Rajasthan's most sought-after escapes.
The Land
Built with the hill.
Not against it.
Twenty acres of private Aravalli hillside. The terrain that most developers would have cleared and levelled, Teela chose to preserve. Not a single tree was cut during construction. The paths follow the natural lines of the hill. The domes sit where the views are best — which happens to be exactly where the land wanted them.
This is not an accident or a marketing position. It is a set of decisions made by a founder who understood that the land itself was what she was selling, and that destroying it to build on it would have destroyed the point entirely.
45 acres, undisturbed.
The entire property sits on 45 acres of private Aravalli hillside. No neighbouring structures. No shared walls. The kind of space that makes distance feel effortless.
No trees cut. No exceptions.
The entire property sits on 45 acres of private Aravalli hillside. No neighbouring structures. No shared walls. The kind of space that makes distance feel effortless.
Fewer guests. More space.
Twelve rooms across 45 acres means each guest has more of the hill than most hotels give you of a corridor. Privacy isn't a feature. It's the whole point.
45 minutes from Jaipur.
Close enough to reach easily. Far enough to feel like a world away. The distance is the design.
Recognition
India noticed.
The industry agreed.
Since opening, Teela has been featured across leading travel publications, lifestyle media, and industry platforms — recognised not just as a new property, but as a different kind of one. The awards, the editorial mentions, and the press have followed naturally from a single commitment: building something worth talking about, and then letting the place speak for itself.
