Tiji Festival Jeep Tour 2019
Finally, Mukesh Rajbanshi came to pick me up & brought me to his office and I could not thank him enough for his professionalism and care that he showed together with Dawa on this trip. I never hire guides except if it requires to get permits & arrange the transportation. But in Nepal, I needed both so I started in early May to look for an agency in Kathman
du to arrange all these. I emailed and spoke with three different agencies and all sent me a general itinerary but when I asked for details and followed up with questions, they all went mum. I kept trying, even calling them but the responses were not clarifying and in spite of my efforts I could not even get any quoted price. Time was closing in, flights to Kathmandu went more & more expensive and I was not even a bit closer to an arrangement. Desperate and almost convinced that I won't be able to go in Upper Mustang for the Tiji Festival, I gave up on all the previous agencies and I decided to start fresh with Himalayan Excursion whose owner, Mukesh Rajbanshi, - himalayanexcursionnepal12@gmail.com ; Cell No: +977-9818816545 - started right away to respond to my questions.
Any sets of questions I had, I emailed them to Mukesh & I got the next morning a full set of clear answers. In several days we clarified a lot of ground and we were able to put together a clear itinerary. Besides all these responses, he was sending me extra emails advising me what to bring, like the sunscreen & the lip balm that for sure I would have forgotten. Very useful & extremely knowledgeable for a young agency. But it turned that his agency may have been only 3 years old but Mukesh worked for a trekking company, as a partner/owner in another agency for 10 years, and from that experience stemmed his knowledge, He guided groups & organized entire trips and he knew in details every place where he sent me in Upper Mustang.
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