Royal Mountain Travel, a Nepal based sustainable tour operator established in 2005, is a community of travel experts dedicated to preserving local culture and environment to deliver authentic and meaningful vacation to travellers travelling in Nepal, Tibet, and Bhutan. We work with travel agents and companies to help them build customized trips for their clientele.
Community Homestay Community Homestay Network (CHN) is a Social Enterprise that connects tourists looking to experience diverse cultures to homestays run by women. From eating home cooked Nepali food to participating in festivals and the daily culturally rich lives of Nepali people, CHN provides a platform for tourists to experience Nepal through the lens of the Nepali people. Initially started as CSR of Royal Mountain Travel with one house at Panauti Community Homestay in 2012, today CHN works in coordination with 17 Communities and 170 Homestays all over Nepal. In addition to Homestay CHN also coordinates with local communities to build community based tourism products such as hiking, cooking classes, cultural dance performances, etc.
At Community Homestays in our network, women are at the forefront of managing the homestays. In doing so, women are empowered, confident and proud contributors to the household and local economy. There is a greater economic impact to the community as a whole as a lot of things are purchased from the community for meals, comfort, stay of the guests.
Our Homestays
Patan Community Homestay
Patan Community Homestay is located in an ancient city, Patan, which is one of the most profound civilizations inside the Kathmandu Valley established around 3rd century BC. Those ancient glories still echo in people and temples. Continue Reading...
Tharu Community Homestay
Tharu Community Homestay offers accommodation in a local settlement, close to the local families, for a genuine experience. Blend yourself with a typical Nepalese lifestyle in a diverse and colorful community. Continue Reading...
Barauli Community Homestay
Barauli Community Homestay is a perfect blend of nature and culture. Twelve small cottages, made by the locals, coats the sensation of Tharu culture. The moments spent in the hut takes you back to the ancient glory days. Continue Reading...
Panauti Community Homestay
Socialize with the locals for the authentic experience in the Panauti Community Homestay. Run by the local women, Panauti Homestay is located in a beautiful historic town with a nostalgic atmosphere. Continue Reading...
As part of Riksja Travel, we from Riksja Nepal have been working with Royal Mountain Travel for more than a decade now. Besides offering us the most original and inspiring trips in
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Nepal, we are always very happy with their excellent service for both our customers as us as their travel agency. The Royal Mountain Family makes our clients feel at home, offering quality guides, authentic accommodations and safe transport. Royal Mountain Travel is also involved in smaller community-based tourism projects to benefit a whole community from tourism income. This truly makes it possible for local communities to develop themselves in a self-supporting way. We believe in these projects in developing and benefit Nepal as a whole.
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Riksja Travel
Koen Hermsen, Riksja Nepal
"Shoestring & Koning Aap has been working with Shiva and Royal Mountain for over a decade now. We have consistently received excellent service: his office is very responsive to
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our every needs. Our clients have always given great feedback - Royal Mountain's local guides have taken care of them very well over the years and we look forward to continuing our business with them.
Beside his professional services, Mr. Shiva pays a lot of attention to the working conditions of his staff both at the Kathmandu office as well as in the field. We admire his support for quite a few micro development projects which is in line with our own company policy concerning sustainability and social responsibility."Less
Shoestring & Koning Aap
Jan Middelhoek General Manager Shoestring & Koning Aap
After many months of planning and long hours spent developing our new website with our website
designer, we would like to welcome you to our new and vibrant website. This website is designed to
make searching for information much simpler along with giving us a fresh look for the years ahead.
Over the coming weeks we will be transferring information from our old site to this site so if you
see something missing please don't panic. Also in the coming month we will be adding in lots of
information and new products. With all that said we hope you enjoy using our new website.
