About This Tour
About This Tour
The Nepal Community-Based Tourism Tour is the trip we are most proud to offer — a 12-day journey through the community tourism projects that define responsible travel in Nepal. Instead of hotels, you stay in community homestays. Instead of restaurants, you eat with families. Instead of sightseeing, you participate — cooking traditional meals, working in kitchen gardens, learning pottery and weaving, and sitting with local people who tell you about their lives, their challenges, and their hopes.
The route connects some of Nepal’s most successful community tourism initiatives: Panauti’s medieval Newari town with its community homestay program, Bandipur’s hilltop village that has become a model for heritage tourism, and Pokhara area villages where Gurung and Magar families welcome travellers into their daily lives. At every stop, you meet the people who built these projects from nothing and whose livelihoods depend on visitors like you.
What's Included
- Local host family or community-lodge accommodation
- Local home-cooked meals during the stay
- Community activities and cultural exchange
- Local guide or community facilitator
- Village walks and local experiences
- Ground transport as per the itinerary
- Included items may vary by package. Eco Holiday Asia confirms final inclusions before booking.
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
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Community Impact of This Trip
This tour is community impact. Every night is a community homestay. Every meal is cooked by a local family. Every guide is from the community. Every rupee stays in the village. This is what community-based tourism looks like when it works.
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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