Sitta Seaview started as one thatched building and a stretch of garden between the road and the coast. It’s still small on purpose — a handful of rooms, run by people who live here, cooking with what the garden and the local market give us that day.

We built it to sit lightly on the land: solar panels instead of a diesel generator, a borehole instead of trucked-in water, and a kitchen that plans meals around the harvest rather than the other way around. Nothing here is engineered to impress. It’s engineered to last.

Sittanunku itself is part of the draw — a working coastal village rather than a resort strip, with its own rhythm that has nothing to do with checkout times.