View of Da River in the Muong community
View of Da River in the Muong community
Live with a Mother-Daughter duo who takes pride in their culture and traditions
Lake View Homestay is located in Tien Phong Commune, overlooking the Da River. The village is made up of 40 households, and all of them are Muong Au Ta, a small branch of the Muong community with special costumes and culture. A Mother-Daughter duo put forward this traditional background for tourists to experience. Both of them are trained to offer hospitality services and create a safe environment for solo women travellers.
Guests like to eat our Ladakhi food. They say it is delicious, even when it is prepared by an elderly ama (mother) like me. I always make sure I serve them the cleanest and healthiest food. My husband is a copper artist. When guests leave us, they say ‘Julley’, and hug us. It makes us feel happy.
I became a Mountain Homestay Host in 2018, and I have hosted many travellers since then. Running a homestay has helped me and my family a lot. Not only is the solar set up in our house useful for us, but even travellers prefer to stay in our homestay because of it.
The training we got in astronomy turned out to be a life-changing experience for our village. I felt happy and proud while mapping the position of the planets and sharing the secrets of the universe with the tourists. Tourists told me that even they didn’t know so much about the dark skies!
