Damauli. After a 20-minute drive from Baradi on the Prithvi Highway, you will reach the tourist village of Giranchaur in Aanbukhaireni-1. The settlement is neatly built with stones. The traditional houses attract anyone who reaches here.
The locals are trying to attract domestic and foreign tourists by making Giranchaur a tourist destination. After the rural municipality declared this place a tourist model village, the locals are trying to bring tourists to this place.
Local Om Maya Gurung said that with the support and inspiration of the rural municipality, they have been trying to run a homestay in this place. She said, ‘The rural municipality chairman Shukra Chuman motivated us to run a homestay in this place. We locals are now involved in it.’
According to her, currently 20 homestays are being operated in this place and the goal is to expand it. She says that she had no knowledge about operating a homestay and is now moving towards it after being taught by the rural municipality.
She said, ‘The rural municipality chairman always told us that we had to earn money, we said we didn’t know how to run it. They taught us, and they even started sending guests.’ She informed that just a short while ago, one hundred teachers from the school had come to stay here.
Similarly, artists such as Bhatbhate Maila and Balchhi Dhruv have also come here, she said. Guests who come here are served local chicken, potato dishes produced in the village, gundruk, bhatta, and millet bread. Similarly, she informed that Chudka dance is performed at night.
Local Naresh Gurung informed that they welcome guests in a family-like atmosphere. Stating that he is also involved in the work of a carpenter, he mentioned that his mother and wife are helping to run the homestay. So far, more than three hundred people have spent the night in this place.
Chuman, the chairman of the village, said that Aambukhaireni Rural Municipality is trying to develop this place as a model tourist village. There are 60 households in the Gurung settlement of Giranchaur, and the goal is to operate homestays in all the houses. According to him, a budget of 4 million has been allocated to make this place a tourist village.
He said, ‘The goal is to make the locals self-reliant by connecting them to income generation.’ Chuman said that the goal is to make each ward of the rural municipality, which has a total of six wards, a tourist village. He said, there is also a plan to increase the attraction of the houses in Giranchaur with the same color and flowers. For this, we will partner with the locals.’
Chuman said that the process of upgrading the road has begun as there is a paved road from Baradi to Samastipur on the Prithvi Highway and an unpaved road from there.
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