Testimonials

  This tour was the highlight of my trip to Nepal! Thupten is super guide, friendly, professional, informative and passionate about teaching people about Tibetan history. We had lots of time... read more to ask questions and learned so much on the trip about culture, history, religion. I would highly recommend this tour! More

  We went on the morning tour of the Tibetan refugee settlement in Pokhara with Thupten Gyatso, our host and driver for the day. Thupten collected us at our hotel at... read more 05:45 and proceeded to take us to the Pema Ts’al Satya Buddhist Monastery, where we saw the young monks participating in the morning puja (prayer). After, Thupten took us to a family home in one of the Tibetan settlement areas outside of Pokhara. Thupten’s English is very good, and he was able to explain and provide context of his Tibetan culture throughout our tour. We drank butter tea and ate a barley porridge with baked bread. After, we were taken back to the monastery to speak with Ngawang, a 26 year old monk who answered all our questions and spoke with us at length about his life as a Buddhist monk. He was very friendly and seemed to relish the opportunity to speak English with us, as he was also very well-spoken. The final leg of our morning tour ended at the Tashling Tibetan refugee settlement, where we were shown a demonstration of the traditional carpet-making skills of the older Tibetan women in Tashling. There was also a very informative exhibition detailing the history of the Tibetan people’s settlement in Nepal and India. A Tibetan doctor also answered our questions about his medicinal practices and offered to give us a free check-up.
We ended our tour with Thupten at a Tibetan restaurant, eating momos and thenthuk noodle soup. We thoroughly enjoyed our tour with Thupten, and would encourage anyone who is interested to learn about the Tibetan refugees in Nepal first-hand to go on this tour. Thank you for your time, Thupten, and we wish you all the best with your tours!

  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 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.

  What a day we had with Thupten as our guide. He was very knowledgeable about Tibetan history and culture and his English is really very good.
During our visits... read more to Tibetan villages we had authentic Tibetan food and learned lots of fascinating facts. We were able to talk to a Tibetan Monk and asked him many questions that he was happy to answer.
We visited a Tibetan Doctor which was fascinating and finally had butter tea and Tsampa in a lovely welcoming family home.
We could write so much more but try it for yourselves. We highly recommend this fascinating look into Tibetan life.

  My husband and I went on this tour and were blown away.... The plight of the tibetan refugees will be forever in our minds now, the knowledge we have gained... read more from this tour is unfathomable. Very very interesting the Tibetan and Buddhist way of living. Our Guide Thupten Gyatso is very passionate and sincere and it was such a blessing to hear his stories. Would highly recommend the full day tour.

  This is the real deal. Thupten, our guide, is the son of Tibetan refugees who operates these tours with dedication, passion, and professionalism. He's not doing it for... read more the money, he's doing it to share and educate travelers about the Tibetan refugee community in Nepal....More

  I highly recommend this tour for everybody visiting Pokhara. My friend and I didn’t have solid plans coming here but read about this tour and were largely taken back by... read more the rich culture and history involved. The full day tour is a complete experience that...More

  This is a very nice tour. While visiting the beautiful Tibetan village and monastery, I also learned a lot of culture and history about Tibet. Thupten has given a good... read more lesson on what we want to know about Tibet.More

  This has indeed been the highlight of our trip in Nepal. I have always been fascinated by the Tibetan culture. My husband is a history buff... this became the perfect... read more option for both of us. What an amazing day I must say. Thupten is the...More