Testimonials

  Thupten is an excellent tour guide with a rich knowledge about the Tibetan culture. I can highly recommend this tour to anybody - it’s well organized, you can ask a... read more lot of questions, meet a monk for a deeper conversation and getting in contact with...More

  Thupten was an amazing guide. I learned a lot in a relatively short amount of time, as he is very informative. The tour included a sit down conversation with a... read more monk in his monastery, providing the opportunity for true insights. I highly recommend going with this operator.

  We did the morning tour program with the tibetain encounter. We are very satisfied with the tour. The guide, Thupten Gyatso, was professional and he talked with conviction about the... read more tibetain culture. He was knowledgeable and he was very generous to share all of it with us. The talks about life values were inspiring. We visited 2 village and a monestary. We were able to speak with a monk which was nice. We thank him for those moments.

  If you are intrigued by Tibetan culture and want to know more, go nowhere else but with Thupten in his Tibetan Encounters Day Tours (you can also do 1/2 days)... read more he knows so much about Tibet, culture, people, you will come away with a wealth...More

  Very well-organized tour. The best part of the tour was the guide "Thupten Gyatso'. He was great, experienced, and sophisticated. I learned very useful information about the culture in Tibetian... read more settlements. Visiting the monastery was an enlightening experience that I will never forget in my entire lifetime. Thank you Thupten Gyatso for organizing amazing half-day tour.

  I am so, so glad I booked this tour on a whim! Thupten is an incredible tour guide, providing a wealth of knowledge about Tibet, Tibetans in Nepal, the Dalai... read more Lama, and Tibetan Buddhism, yet he stays humble and open to questions and deep discussion....More

  I had a great afternoon with Thupten discovering Tibetan culture and history.
Thupten is a kind person sharing from his heart his knowledge and experience related to Tibet and Buddhism.... read more

  I would highly recommend this experience for anyone interested in Tibetan culture or Bhudism. Our guide Thupten was knowlegable and entertaining.

I attended with my 14 year old daughter... read more and we both learned and retained so much history and knowledge of this community.

Our highlights were trying Tibetan foods in a traditional home, seeing how carpets are made and even tying a few knots as well as talking with young Bhudist monk.

This exceptional tour was well worth our time and money.

  That was so a great day I should recommand this tour to every people that want to know about Tibet, and you will enjoy for sure! Thank you for this... read more amazing moment!More

  We did the full day tour with Thupten during our trip to Nepal in March. He picked us up from our hotel which was around 20 mins from the... read more lakeside area and we visited numerous sights during the tour. Unfortunately, our visit coincided with the Tibetan New Year's celebration so we were unable to visit the carpet shop. Thupten was very apologetic and assured us that he had called the establishment to confirm that they would be open. He went above and beyond to make sure that we got the most of the day, taking us to Devi's Falls and Gupteshwor Mahadev Cave in order to make up for the time that we would have spent at the carpet shop. He is very knowledgable and was able to answer all the tough questions that we lobbed at him! The experience of speaking with a Tibetan monk was unlike any other I've had in my life. We had a lot of time to talk with the monk about anything we wanted and his English was perfect. He gave very forthright and honest answers to all of our questions. I cannot rate this experience more highly! If you visit Pokhara, it is a MUST DO! …