A village home with a kitchen at its heart
Maya Guesthouse is a long-stay home and ground-floor place to eat in Sedi — calm, a short walk from the lake road, built for people who want to stay a month, not a night. Phase one is land and a Nepal company. Honesty first.
A quiet village home with a kitchen at its heart — not a strip hotel, not a hostel.
The idea
Maya Guesthouse is a small house in Sedi: rooms upstairs, a kitchen and terrace on the ground floor. The kitchen is not a side amenity — it is the heart of the place. Guests and neighbors share the same tables. Bread, dal, coffee, evening light.
This is a village home, not a branded lifestyle product. Ownership sits with a Nepal private limited company, 100% Maya. The project grows in phases so that what opens is real, run, and financed without theatre.
Why Sedi
Sedi sits a short walk — about 350 metres — off the lakeside strip. Close enough for the market and the lake; far enough that evenings stay quiet. No fake map pin. No invented distance. The point is simple: calm without isolation.
Travelers who stay longer than a weekend want a neighborhood, not a corridor of guest houses. Locals want a table that is not only for tourists. Sedi is where those two needs meet.
Ground floor
The ground floor is planned as a restaurant, café, and bakery opening onto a terrace — the social room of the house. Zoning and fit-out follow the land and building we actually secure; nothing here pretends those decisions are finished.
What we commit to is the use: food as the welcome, terrace as the living room, hours that suit both long-stay guests and people from the lane.
- Restaurant / café / bakery — kitchen-led, not a lobby afterthought
- Terrace seating for guests and neighbors
- Zoning and layout locked only after land and plans are real
Rooms
Rooms are for people who stay weeks and months, not for maximising nightly turnover. We will publish exact room counts and rates only when the building exists and numbers are honest.
The intent is clear tiers — simple private rooms and longer-stay setups — with pricing that rewards month-plus stays. Until then, no invented inventory.
- Designed for month-plus stays, not hostel bunks
- Simple tiers — privacy and quiet over spectacle
- No published room count or nightly rates until the house is real
How it feels
Home, not hostel. A place you leave your shoes and return to the same table. Not performative wellness — no incense-and-hashtag brochure. Just good light, decent food, and the sound of a lane that goes to sleep.
International donors and long-stay travelers should recognise the same story: a real Nepali house business, run by Maya, open to people who treat it like a home rather than a backdrop.
Phase one
Phase one is foundation work: secure land, incorporate the Nepal company, open a bank account. Only after that do construction and online gifts scale.
Land cost is currently tracked as roughly USD 100,000 — a planning placeholder, not a final quote. Figures will update when offers and surveys are real.