Built by two Dubai-based friends as a retirement home - a little too prematurely - and then converted into a boutique hotel. Mindfulness is practiced at Kizikula in many forms. For instance, during the construction of the hotel, they made sure that they hired local talents like Franko Göhse who along with landscape architect Andy Hamilton designed the cascading green landscape of the hotel. Mindful of not changing the landscape, the hotel remains largely hidden and even the salmon hued stones on the patios are from local quarries. The hotel is also mindful of the friends that the owners originally planned to host, naming each room after a friend and reflecting their personalities in the room’s unique décor.
Unsurprisingly, Kizikula is plastic free and even their gym equipment is made from concrete and iron. Their menu changes every day based on what has been freshly plucked from the garden which grew breadfruit, pomegranate, bananas, okra, chilies, mint leaves and so on. We stayed in the room called “Maitha” and on our way to our room, we would see passion fruit, guavas and so on gleefully hanging from its trees waiting to be ripe.
Kizikula was the detox my mind and soul needed. I took in every second like a fish to water. I watched every sunset instead of my phone and counted stars instead of calories. So, it doesn’t come as a surprise that I lounged around in one of MY Label creations and named it after Kizikula. We also shot this beautiful co-ord around the beautiful boutique. This set is one that I love to wear for it brings back sweet memories of that little boutique hotel in the middle of an unknown sleepy village.
