Home Stay
Experience an exciting cultural and educational adventure to beautiful Nepal with Focus Tours and Travels’ home stay package.
The home stay program is one of the interesting tourist programs in Nepal. It makes feel at home while being away from home at the same time giving them a good opportunity to learn about the Nepali culture, lifestyle, language, and people. In this programme, tourists stay in a village or in an urban area of Nepalese cities with a Nepali Family. During this period tourists will have the opportunity to participate in local festivals and get the opportunity to exchange their culture.
Home stays can be arranged for one week to one month. Tourists staying with a family will get Nepali food twice a day (around 9 o' clock in the morning and 8 o' clock in the evening). Tea is served in the morning and in the afternoon. You will be able to travel to nearby towns to purchase things for daily use and could travel to other areas on longer vacation. The main objective of this tour is to enable tourist to know and learn the authentic Nepali way of living and provide them with the opportunity of sharing their culture no matter wherever the tourists are from. It is aimed at developing understanding and fraternity among the visitors of diverse origin and culture.
If you are looking for an economical tour, then we invite you to join in this exclusive package of Educational and cultural Tour.
What is provided in the cost of the package?
Here is a brief summary of the services that Focus offers:
Food: The program fee covers two local meals a day - lunch, and dinner. Tea is served in the morning and in the afternoon Food will be healthy, nutritious, and locally available. We do not serve exotic foods.
Accommodation: We offer clean, comfortable living spaces, and tourist will stay either in a single or double bedded room
Airports/Bus Stops Receive and Transfer: Upon the receipt of the flight information/schedule of bus, our staff will meet guests in the airport/ bus stop.
Other Services: Focus's staffs are always willing to support guests by answering all of the volunteers' questions and providing the best advice on health, culture, excursions, travel and safety.
Emergency support: Focus will provide you with 1-2 mobile/hosts telephone numbers of the representative staffs and local staffs for emergency support (these numbers are available for use at all times). Guests will also get contact details to pass along to your family before departure.
What Program fee does not cover
Airfare (International and Domestic), Visa and Visa extension fee, Airport taxes, Any personal expenses on food and travel. Mineral water and soft drinks, Gifts to project staffs and host family, Laundry, Telephone Immunization Any expenses outside of the program
Our host families
Our host families are located within the Kathmandu Valley, some are in city and others are in rural historical areas of the southern outskirts of Kathmandu. The rural cities are at a distance of 10-13 kilometers from Kathmandu city center. Most of the houses of host families are typical ones with basic facilities to make you experience the real lifestyle.
What you may not get
Hot showers, electricity, television, beer, hamburgers, rubbish on the trail, thousands of tourists, attached toilet.
What you will get
Delicious local food and drinks, comfortable accommodation, a welcome like you have never had before and the cultural experience of a lifetime.
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