Testimonials

  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.

  We have no words to describe how amazing was the tour that Thupten offered us today! This is an amazing opportunity to get to know Tibetans history and Thupten is... read more explaining everything so well. We could have listened to him all day long. We definetely...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.

  Before visiting Pokhara in December we had seen that this tour was offered and it was something we wanted to do to gain a deeper insight into the Tibetan people... read more of Nepal and their way of life etc.

We booked the tour before we left for Nepal and Thupten was very prompt and helpful in his responses.

Our guide on the day was Thupten himself and we could not have asked for a nicer and more knowledgable guide. He did everything he could to educate us in a casual friendly manner and the afternoon had a variety of different activities. He was also very prompt in collecting us and dropping us back off on time.

The highlight of the tour for me and my friend was the in-depth discussion we had with a Tibetan monk. As there were only 4 of us in the group we could have a deep meaningful conversation with him about Buddhism, the mind, meditation etc and we left with a better understanding and a few things to take away and think about.

The other parts of the tour were visiting the monks that were in a chanting session (sorry I do not know the proper name for this), a tour of the monastery and settlement and trying traditional food and drink including yak butter tea, bread and a porridge style substance in a local home with a local Tibetan family.

At the end of the tour I became quite ill but Thupten was helpful on the way back to the hotel stopping the car on numerous occasions to allow me to get out.

The Tibetan scarf that we were given as a gift was also a lovely touch.

Would highly recommend this tour to anybody visiting Pokhara even if they are unaware about the history of Tibetan people of Nepal.

  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!

  We had an amazing day with our kids, learning about Tibetan history and culture. We got an amazing insight to the struggles and the history of the Tibetan people and... read more learned about their rich culture. I can highly recommend this tour. Thupten speaks amazing English and is very humble and sweet.

  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!

  The whole day tibetan experience was a great way to learn about the tibetan refugees in Nepal and about Buddhism in general. We highly recommend the morning tour, because we... read more were able to participate in the chanting in the monastery with the monks.

  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.

  Thupten is one of the most professional guide we met in Nepal. His tour is not the kind that will make you buy things but learn so many priceless informations... read more about Tibetan history, religion, culture, etc. That's why we loved this experience and really recommend it to all of the people staying in Pokhara.