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.
- Land ~$100k planning placeholder — survey and offer process in progress
- Nepal company Private limited company, 100% Maya — incorporation underway
- Bank account In progress — required before any online payment collection
- Build & open After land and banking — kitchen-first ground floor, rooms above
Support
If this house matters to you, you can help with gifts and with a place on the Founding Wall — names of people who put early capital and trust into phase one.
There is no online payment button yet. That is deliberate. Until the company bank account is live, we do not take card or transfer through this site. Reach out by email; we will confirm the right path when banking is ready.
No payments accepted through this website until the Nepal company bank account is open. Support CTAs go to email or this section only. Ownership remains 100% Maya via the Nepal Pvt Ltd.
Founder
Maya is building this as her house and her company — not as a remote brand. Guests will know who runs the kitchen and who answers the door.
The site and early technical setup are supported by friends; credit belongs with Maya for the place and the work on the ground.
I want a house where people stay long enough to learn the names of the neighbors — and where the kitchen is the first room you feel.
FAQ
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Can I book a room now?
Not yet. Phase one is land, company, and bank. Rooms open after the house is built. We will not invent availability.
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Can I donate online today?
No. Until the Nepal company bank account is live, we do not collect payments on this site. Use the support contact path; we will tell you when banking is ready.
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Who owns Maya Guesthouse?
A Nepal private limited company, 100% Maya. Not a foreign shell and not a franchise.
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Where exactly is Sedi?
Sedi is a short walk (~350m) from the lakeside strip in Pokhara. We avoid fake map pins; the address will be published with the real plot.
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What is the Founding Wall?
A simple, permanent record of people who supported phase one with gifts and trust — not a membership club with perks theatre.
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Will there be published rates soon?
Rates and room counts only when they are true. Month-plus stays are the design intent; nightly price lists before opening would be fiction.
