Video Tour – 4 minutes but worth it….
Rass Mandal was originally designed & constructed by a direct descendant of the daughter of Emperor Akbar of India (1542 – 1605), sister to Shah Jahan who built the Taj Mahal. Its architecture is quite unique being a fusion of US southwestern construction materials and Asian design.
Rass Mandal is a unique vacation and retreat rental in Santa Fe, NM, ideal for family reunions, women’s outings, yoga and similar gatherings. The home comfortably accommodates 10 guests in 6 bedrooms. The residence high in the Sangre de Cristo foothills, located just off the Old Santa Fe Trail, yet it is only 12 minutes from the Plaza in the center of Santa Fe.
By just stepping out the front door, you can hike or mountain bike the Ponderosa Ridge to Hidden Valley Road down to Wilderness Gate Road and right into town via Canyon Road or the Old Santa Fe Trail.
There are so many choices to enjoy, allowing you to renew both your body and your spirit with nature’s healing power. If you are lucky, you may spot coyotes, mule deer, and a variety of songbirds and birds of prey while you are out exploring.
Santa Fe Weather
Santa Fe rests at an altitude of +7,000 feet and is nestled at the base of 12,000-foot mountains. Rass Mandal is at 7840 feet so the temperatures will vary a bit from those in the table and the stars are magnificent. Although Santa Fe is in a high mountain desert, our weather has four distinct but hospitable seasons. We receive an average of 14 inches of rain annually and enjoy 320+ days of sunshine a year (more than Florida!), with an average relative humidity comfortably below 35 percent. Evenings are cool even in summer, and winter generally brings snow for skiers. The rain showers of the summer monsoon season usually start up in the afternoon and last for an hour or two at most, leaving the rest of the day sunny and the evening pleasant and cool. The stars are so awesome up at Rass Mandal (elevation 7840 feet); please consider that you’ll likely want to be out gazing some of the night.
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3D Virtual Tour
(use your arrow keys or mouse to navigate through the tour)
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Aerial View
The video below is an aerial view of the Rass Mandal complex. From this vantage, you can see that the main residence is in a slightly U shape. When Nyssia Wali envisioned the construction, it was her intention to make it represent a bird with the center room representing the main body of the bird and to either side representing the wings. The building in the lower left is the screened-in yoga pavilion. The small building to the right is the cabin with its own deck.