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Volunteering in Nepal : Come to our beautiful and cultural place!

The experience

We would like you to participate in preparing Nepali and Tibetan meals. There is a vegetable garden that demands constant attention and the guesthouse requires frequent cleaning and sometime small repairs you can also help with. Maintaining and improving local treks to help out the local community. Your help is needed to support us online, creating more exposure on social media for our guesthouse and finally help with making our house ecofriendly

What you offer

6 hours of help per day

Painting & Decorating: Help with painting or decorating the property facilities.

Cleaning: Help clean the kitchen, bedrooms, bathrooms and common areas.

Kitchen Hand: Help prepare, finish and serve meals.

Gardening: Help grow plants and cultivate gardens

Additional fee required

Amount: US$ 6 Per day

Fee pays for: Benefits for travelers

Description: Volunteers contribute 6$ to cover for some of the costs of usage of supplies and energy, in spite of how much we value you helping us. Because the village is very remote, importing certain foods and supplies is expensive. Moreover, part of this money will be used for the education of our children and will flow back to the local community as well.

What you get

2 days off per week

Private Room: You will have a bed in a private room. In other words, a room just for you.

Shared Dorm: You will have a bed in a shared room, which means you will share the same room with other travelers.

Tent: You will sleep in a tent at a camping site.

Breakfast: You are entitled to a free breakfast, every day of your stay.

Lunch: You are entitled to a free lunch, every day of your stay.

Dinner: You are entitled to a free dinner, every day of your stay.

Discounts on Drinks: Get discounts for drinks and beverages from our bar.

Discounts on Tours: Get discounts for tours and excursions around town.

Discounts on Accommodation: Get discounts for your stay in other hostels.

Free Laundry: You can use our laundry room freely.

Get free drinks or beverages.: Drink up! Get free and tasty drinks for yourself.

Free Events: Get free entrance for the best events in town.

Yoga classes: Take free yoga classes at our place.

Language lessons: Take free language classes at our place.

Basic Internet Access: Basic speed internet for you to work remotely

Requirements

Intermediate English

Between 18 and 80 years old

Welcomes solo volunteers, couples, and partners of volunteers

What's not included

Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa

Program Details

We invite you to stay in our fun, friendly and family owned and run Pema Guest House, perched above a beautiful valley in the small and lovely village of Briddim. It is situated in the Langtang National Park and directly on the Tamang Heritage Trail. The perfect setting for volunteering in Nepal !

Neema, the cheerful and caring lady running the daily business of the guesthouse, is also a wonderful cook, using mainly fresh and locally grown vegetables to prepare delicious traditional Nepali, Tibetan and western dishes. She also makes sure guests arrive in a clean and fresh accommodation.

Dawa, her husband, is an experienced guide, who manages the guesthouse and makes sure the guests are provided with all the information they need about local culture and traditions. We have two young children, who go to school in Kathmandu. We both love to talk, make jokes and interact with our all our guests at the Pema Guest House.

In return for your efforts, which will be no more than 6 hours a day, you will be treated to breathtaking views of the valley and surrounding mountains, plus white topped peaks in the distance. The quietness and calmness of our village will certainly have a relaxing effect on you too. If you like, you can go for hikes and do yoga or meditate in front of the guesthouse. Three meals a day, hot and cold drinks, warm showers and unlimited WiFi will be available for you. There’s also a washing machine for you to us when needed. You will have your own modern build wooden room or share it with another volunteer. And don’t forget the previously mentioned submerged experience of the Tamang culture and traditions.

Activities & Shift

Our village Bridhim has a vibrant mixture of Tamang and Nepali culture, which transform your volunteering in Nepal as a real cultural experience ! Here we can arrange, and you can experience such interesting things as:

- Local Tamang welcome dance.
- Tibetan language and singing.
- Cooking local food like dal bhat and Tibetan bread.
- Make traditional handcrafts.
- Traditional Puja (Buddhist blessing).
- Tibetan Tsechu festival (February).
- Tibetan Buddhist New Year festivities called Loshar.

We are looking for enthusiastic and social people that want to join us in our daily lives, providing you with a more submerged experience of Nepali life in the mountains, specifically with an authentic Tamang lifestyle. We are happy to teach you some Tamang phrases and local customs.

Rules

You have to get a tourist car to come to Briddim from Kathmandu. Dawa and Neema can help you with this. You have to pay a fee for entering the national park (3000 rupiah). This is a government tax which needs to be payed.