REST. REFRESH. RECONNECT.
A small organic homestay in Kirtipur
Namaste. We’re Hira and Panta. We keep three rooms on the top floor of our home in Kirtipur, a Newari town at the quiet edge of the Kathmandu valley. Most of what reaches your table grew in the garden out back.
Kirtipur, Nepal · bodhimantrahomestay@gmail.com · +977 9851099628
What’s included
It’s all in one rate. Three meals a day, cooked here, mostly from the garden. As much tea and coffee as you want. A bed on a floor that’s yours and the other guests’. €30 a night.
Trekking and guides are the one thing we set up separately, through our family’s company, Voyage Himalaya. There’s more on the trekking page, and more about the two of us on the about page.
Why people stay
The garden does most of the cooking
The garden wakes earlier than we do. By the time you come down, the chamomile has had its morning. Most of what reaches your plate grew a few steps from the kitchen: the herbs, the greens, the fruit, the eggs from our hens. Pick your own tea if you like. It’s better that way.
Forty minutes from Thamel, and quiet
Thamel is forty minutes away. Most of our guests go once and don’t go back. Kirtipur is older and slower, a Newari town of temple steps and narrow lanes, with a hill you can climb before breakfast. The valley’s last clean lake sits twenty minutes from our door, and in winter the migrating birds stop there on their way south.
Your floor
The top floor is yours, shared only with the other guests and never with us. One room has two single beds that join into a double. The bathroom up there is for guests only: hot water, western toilet.
Welcome tea
A pot when you arrive, and refills after. We mean it.
Television
In the living room. We keep some trekking films, if you want them.
Storage
A cupboard for your things.
Airport pickup
Send your flight and one of us will be there.
Bathroom
Hot showers, western toilet.
Laundry
Same day, most days.
Wifi
Yes, and it usually holds.
Meals from the garden
Three a day, mostly from out back.
Questions guests ask
Is the bathroom private?
We're allergic to cats and dogs. Are there animals?
Do you speak English?
Can you pick us up from the airport?
How do we book, and what if plans change?
What’s growing
We grow rosemary, tulsi, chamomile, shankhpushpi and peppermint for the teas. Avocado, guava, orange and fig on the trees. Turmeric and pumpkin in the beds. Orchids we didn’t plant and can’t take credit for. The fig tree continues to disappoint us; we keep it for the leaves and the shape.
Chamomile tea
Our garden grown turmeric
Wild Orchid
pumpkin
We write down what’s ready each month on the blog.
Get in touch
Tell us your dates! We will prepare for you. WhatsApp is the fastest way to reach us. Or leave a message and we’ll write back.
WhatsApp: +977 9851099628
Email: bodhimantrahomestay@gmail.com
Bodhi Mantra Homestay
Sunakhari Marg, Kirtipur 44600, Nepal
Rest. Refresh. Reconnect.
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Email: bodhimantrahomestay@gmail.com
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