About This Tour
About This Tour
The Nepal Homestay Experience is a 7-day multi-community stay across three of Nepal's most established homestay regions. You sleep in family homes, share meals, learn cooking and join daily activities — farm work in season, dance evenings, temple visits, village walks. By design, you spend the trip with three different communities rather than rotating through hotels.
A typical itinerary covers Panauti (Newari, 1 hour from Kathmandu), a Tharu village near Chitwan, and a Gurung village in the Pokhara hills. Each homestay is part of a community tourism programme — village committees, women's groups or cooperatives — that share income across the village rather than concentrating it in one home.
This trip is ideal for travelers wanting a deeper Nepal experience than a hotel-based tour, who can adapt to basic comfort, and who enjoy being part of household life. Children are welcome and often the favourites in the host families.
Tour Highlights
- Stay with three different Nepali host families — Newari, Tharu and Gurung
- Eat home-cooked Nepali food prepared with your hosts
- Help with daily activities — farming, cooking, weaving
- Cultural evenings — traditional music, dance, storytelling
- Village walks with local guides who grew up in the community
- Chitwan jeep safari and dawn canoe ride included
- Real cross-cultural exchange — not staged tourist performances
Itinerary
Day 1: Arrival in Kathmandu
TIA airport pickup, transfer to hotel, brief orientation, welcome dinner with introduction to Nepal homestay culture.
Day 2: Drive to Panauti Newari Village
Morning drive to Panauti, an hour from Kathmandu. Meet your host family. Afternoon temple walk, riverside ghats. Evening cooking with the family.
Day 3: Panauti Day
Morning village walk, optional clay/pottery workshop, lunch with hosts. Afternoon free for reading, conversation or walking.
Day 4: Drive to Chitwan
Drive south to Chitwan (5-6 hours) with stops. Check into Tharu village homestay. Welcome with traditional Tharu food.
Day 5: Chitwan Tharu Day
Morning jeep safari in Chitwan National Park. Lunch back in village. Afternoon Tharu cultural activities — pottery, mask-making, dance.
Day 6: Drive to Pokhara Hills
Drive west to Pokhara (5 hours) and continue into the surrounding hills. Arrive at a Gurung village homestay in the afternoon.
Day 7: Gurung Village & Return to Kathmandu
Morning Gurung culture and short walk. Lunch with hosts. Afternoon drive to Pokhara airport for flight back to Kathmandu (or extend Pokhara if you have time).
What's Included
- 6 nights homestay accommodation (Panauti 2 + Chitwan area 2 + Pokhara hills 2)
- All meals during homestay nights (breakfast, lunch, dinner)
- Welcome dinner in Kathmandu
- Professional local facilitator/guide throughout
- Private vehicle with driver
- All ground transport including domestic transfers
- Chitwan jungle safari and canoe ride
- Village walks and cultural activities
- Trip coordination and 24/7 support
What's Not Included
- International flights to and from Nepal
- Nepal visa fees and travel insurance
- Domestic transport not mentioned in Included
- Meals not specified in Included
- Personal expenses, drinks and souvenirs
- Tips for guide, driver and host families (appreciated, optional)
- Optional activities not part of the package
Tour Factsheet
Community Impact of This Trip
Every night of this trip is paid directly to a host family through a community tourism programme. Income is shared transparently across the village — host fees, cook fees, activity fees and guide fees all go to local people.
Our village partners have been operating community tourism for 5-20 years through women's groups and village committees. By choosing this trip over a hotel tour, you support these long-standing community programmes and the families that run them.
Responsible Travel Notes
- Respect local culture, dress modestly at temples and ask before photographing people
- Avoid single-use plastic — carry a refillable water bottle on tour
- Follow your guide's instructions at heritage sites, monasteries and protected areas
- Support local businesses — buy at family-run shops, eat at local restaurants
- Respect sacred sites and community customs
- Follow Nepal permit and conservation rules in protected areas
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