Daauw Village

Daauw Village, located right at the city center of Houay Xai next to the Temple. Getting off the beaten track, doing something original, leaving something behind for the local Lao people, at Daauw Village you also easily adapt to the traditional way of Lao Life and will get a deeper understanding of the Lao Culture by being part of their welcoming community. At Daauw you can join the locals around the campfire and have traditional foods in the evenings, teach English in the afternoons or join one of the many local workshops this place offers to the Lao people in the mountains. There is a Restaurant and Lounge Cafe, called Daauw Home. You can choose to do Daauw Volunteering and Daauw Trips to the villages where you will join the Team doing Creative Workshops. There is also a Woman Empowerment Shop and Workplace. If you want to have a unique experience and want to avoid the typical tourist trek, you should not skip visiting Daauw Village, owned and run by the poorest people of this area in the mountains. All profits of their activities go straight to the Lao people of the mountains.

At Daauw Home Guest House and restaurant the Kajsiab Initiative provides women from the local villages with a place to sell their beautiful handmade products such as bags, skirts, rugs and belts in the Woman Empowerment Shop.

It is also here at the Home stay that Kajsiab Initiative takes on interns from the local mountain villages. The interns receive training in the hospitality industry, business and administration matters and the English language, as well as receive a fair monthly salary for their work there.

Daauw Home is also dedicated to the providing of a place of shelter for the families of patients at the nearby hospital, with cooking and sleeping facilities provided free-of-charge.

You can Empower the local economy and can help to improve the well being of the Lao mountain people in a meaningful way, Just by having a meal or a drink and by staying for a while to enjoy the ambiance of Daauw Home. Grab a book, visit the Women Empowerment Shop and enjoy the campfire.
Join the Mountain meal with volunteers and Mountain people and get to know them better.

You can also decide to volunteer, contact us or come by and have a talk with us.

If you like to stay in one of our bungalows please contact us: projectkajsiablaos@gmail.com

Source http://wikitravel.org/en/Houay_Xai