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It is one thing to toot your own horn, but something else when some speaks for you. Following are unedited testimonials of some of our past clients, many of whom will vouch for us.
Ellen Kett
Sept 24 -Oct 08,2016Mountain Biking and other active outdoor adventures
Dear Ugan and Jambay, We just wanted to take a minute to thank you and your team (the two Sonam’s) for a wonderful adventure traveling in Bhutan, Sonam and Sonar took such good care of us, were very professional and so much fun to be around. Traveling with people for 15 days is not easy,
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Catherine B.L.B.
Sept 4- 10, 2016Bhutan Country Walk for Catherine & Family.
Hi Anand, We did make it home safe and sound after a week in Japan and finally back to the US. We had a wonderful trip! Our guide Sonam and our driver Sonam were both excellent. Our guide, Sonam, was very knowledgeable and took very good care of us. He listened to all of our
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Andrew Lim
Aug 30 - Sept 05, 2016Window to Bhutan For Andrew and Celia
Hi there! Celia and I had taken part in the “Window to Bhutan Tour” from 8/30 – 9/5 and we would like to share some positive feedback with you regarding our tour guide (Kinley) and driver (Jigme). Both have taken care of us so well during our trip. Kinley was knowledgeable, attentive and definitely had
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Robert T Isham
Jan 21-26,2016Honeymoon Bhutan Trip
Hi Anand, Apologies for taking so long to write this review. We did a tour with Wind Horse in January 2016 (Trip ID 8855) as part of our honeymoon. We had a wonderful time! The Wind Horse staff was very helpful, from booking the tour, flights and visas with Ugen in the Minnesota office to
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Veronica
August 2016Golden Triangle of India With Varanasi Tour (August 2016)
Dear Santosh, Thank you for your email. I greatly appreciate your interest to learn about our experience in India with Wind Horse. I’m now in Dhaka and I think it will take some time to get back to my routine after the wonderful time that I spent in India with my parents. The trip exceeded
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Lester Bartnett
June 5 - 22, 2016Customised Bhutan Tour (June 5 -22, 2016)
One of the most important attributes that your country has…one that you may take for granted…is the fact that your population sees us first as people and secondarily as visitors and lastly, as buyers. We have traveled to so many countries where we have been attacked by hoards of vendors who want us to buy
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Jane Sarnoff
June, 5 - 22, 2016.Customised Bhutan Tour (West to East)
During our 18 days of travel — on the roads, in small towns and larger cities, walking across – well, some of the way across — a centuries-old chain bridge, in a Dzong (a combination monastery/district administration building, originally built as a fort) , looking at stupas large and small, a school, a market, a
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Sin Wai H
June 23- 27, 2016Bhutan Tour, June 2016
Dear Anand, Windhorse is very efficient and organised in replying my emails, and settling all the itinerary and flight ticket problem for me. My tour guide, Kinley, is very friendly and I can feel that she really treated me as her friend instead of a client. This is the most impressive part throughout my journey
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Trudy A
June 11- 20, 2016Bhutan Festival Tour
Grand Cultural Tour with festival Dear Anand, Thank you so much for the photos! I love them!! Jambay is obviously a great photographer. Our trip was wonderful. It exceeded our expectations. We are in love with the country and the people of Bhutan. Everything went very smoothly. Our guides and drivers were knowledgeable, professional, and
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Nov 20 - 27,2015Beautiful Bhutan!
My husband and I absolutely LOVED our 8-day “Introduction to Bhutan” tour. We have both done lots of traveling, both before we met and together, and this trip was the BEST! Our guide (Kinley) and driver (Sonam) made everything so easy and relaxing for us. We are especially grateful to the Wind Horse staff for
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May 21- June 06,2016Bhutan Tour and Nepal Trek
Bhutan Tour and Nepal Trek (Spring 2016) Ugen and Jambey, Michel and I want to thank you for the amazing job your team did in organizing our recent tour to Nepal and Bhutan. Every detail was perfectly arranged and exceeded our expectations. Our guides in Bhutan and Nepal were very knowledgeable and very pleasant and
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Robert Whitehead
June10 -18, 2016Everest Base camp Tour (Spring 2016)
Everest Base Camp Tour Our trip was very successful. Tsering is an exceptionally good guide, nothing was too much trouble for him, and he made every effort to ensure our trip was the best it could be.We appreciated Datong’s driving skills. The roads in Tibet can be quite dangerous, but we felt very safe with
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Oscar L
May 20 - 23, 2016Short Trek and Cultural Blend
Dear Anand, We are back in our daily routines for sure, it’s been hectic but at least I have recommended Wind horse to two friends in Dhaka who are looking to go to Bhutan in the near future, So yes, we were very pleased with our trip and grateful that you guys were flexible enough
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April 16 - 29, 2016.Snow Leopard Trek – Spring 2016
Dear Anand Thank you for you email and sorry for the late answer. But no worries, the trip to Bhutan was just wonderful! I loved especially the trekking although it was quite short, so a good reason to go back in the near future… I loved the campsites and the living in this beautiful area
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Robert J.K
April 10 - 17, 2016Introduction to Bhutan for Robert & Family
Dear Anand Thanks for writing. We had a wonderful time on our trip to Bhutan. The itinerary and the guides were fine. We enjoyed the trip very much. We do look forward to coming back and getting into eastern Bhutan, and also to do some trekking. The only thing I found odd on the trip,
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April 14- May 4,2016Bhutan Traverse from East to West.
Yonten and Dear Team, We spent 3 wonderful weeks in Buthan : we crossed Bhutan from East to West. One word : WAOUH!!!!!!!!. WIND HORSE, thanks a lot for this so beautiful and perfect journey. We enjoyed every day. Everything were great, all your choice is good : Our team with Yeshi andi Tenzin were perfect!!!. Yeshi, our guide,
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Julie T
March 24 - April 04, 2016Amazing Family Trip to Bhutan
We are an American family living in Hong Kong. Our kids are 10 and 7 and after a series of island vacations, we wanted to give the kids a different trip, a real travel experience. Our trip to Bhutan was, by far, the most rewarding, educational, and spiritual family trip we’ve taken. After posting almost
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April 18 - 25, 2016Bhutan Tour for Maria
Anand, In regard to the guide and driver, they both were kind and accommodating , particularly with my mother. As for the tour, I would have liked more information about Bhutan, especially about its history, geography, economics, government, and sites. Most of the information was about religion, yet I still don;t know the difference between
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April 16- 29, 2016Jomolhari Snow Leopard Trek – April 2016
Jomolhari-Snow Leopard Trek – April 2016 Hi Jambay, I’ve been back for two days now and wanted to write while the impressions are still fresh in my mind. First off, let me say that the communication and client service was excellent. Unfortunately the nature of my work makes longterm planning difficult but you were able
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Dear Anand, We enjoyed our trip immensely. And couldn’t have been happier with our guide Pema and driver. They were very helpful, and did everything we wanted. We thought all the places we visited fitted with just what we wanted to see and it was a good mix of cultural and natural. We were really
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March 21 - April 4, 2016Exploring Bhutan from West to East
Dear Rinzin Jamtsho, A big hello from Berlin. Let us thank you and your amazing team for a wonderful journey through Bhutan. We had a marvellous time from the first minute on and Duba and Jigme are an excellent team. It was perfectly organized and the combination of culture and nature experience kept us in constant amazement. We
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Josh Kane A.
March 26- April 04,2016Tour of Western Bhutan
Dear Jambay, I just wanted to follow up my trip to Bhutan with a big thank you, and praise for my guide and driver, Kinley and Tenzin. They were both really professional. Tenzin was a polite and very safe driver, especially on some of the scarier roads, and, Kinley in particular, being the guide who
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Shizuka Maria I
Nov 10 - 24, 2015Bhutan Traverse from West to East (Fall, 2015)
Bhutan Traverse From West to East. Hi jambay Sorry my reply is late but I really wanted to give some feed back.. My tour with all of you was actually great and I have nothing bad to say. All hotels accommodations were good. Maybe the one in Punaka can improve but we were only there one
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Bonnie V.S
March 4-13,2016Nepal Trek & Tour
We were delighted to find a Bhutanese company with an office in the States that could help us plan trips to both Nepal and Bhutan. The fact that Ugen , a partner in the business and our stateside contact made the trip to both countries himself a month before our trip, gave us current updates
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Feb 05 -12, 2016Introduction to Bhutan for Andrew & Family
Dear Anand, Please excuse this belated note. My husband Andrew has been quite busy with work, so I decided to respond on my family’s behalf. All in all, our 7 days in Bhutan were truly remarkable. The pastoral and rugged beauty of the country will stay with us for a long time. Our guide Tashi
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Feb 7 - 16, 2016Highly Flexible Bhutan Tour for Martin
Flexible Bhutan Tour This trip was honestly so much more amazing in real life, and far exceeded my original (high)expectations. Thanks to everyone in the office at Windhorse who were always efficient and helpful in answering questions over e-mail, and willing to be flexible and build the itinerary round what I wanted to achieve – this is their greatest
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Marcos D
Dec 27 - Jan 01, 2016Bhutan Tour for Marcos & Anna
Anand, Apologies for the belated reply and not having shared a few words re: our experience earlier. After we returned to NYC, we just resumed our routine and our promise slowly faded. Alas, it is not lost. See it below. In a few words, we loved our trip to Bhutan. We went to Tibet in
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Rebekah Bell
Nov 06 - 18, 2015Darjeeling Sandakphu Trek (India)
Following the touring we completed the six day Sandakphu trek along the border of Nepal and Darjeeling, India. Unlike the treks in Bhutan, which are wilderness treks where you have to camp each night, the Sandakphu trek was a cultural tea house based trek. While the terrain for the Sandakphu trek was much easier than
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Rebekah Bell
Oct 07 - Nov 05, 2015Above The cloud Trek & Customised Cultural Trip.
Above the Cloud Trek (Bhutan) Travelling in Bhutan is fabulous and amazing, but travelling in and experiencing Bhutan with the team at Wind Horse makes the experience truly unique and memorable. The Wind Horse difference is immediately obvious; from the support you receive in designing your adventure, the range of Wind Horse exclusive walks, homestays,
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Chung H.T
Dec 11- 19, 2015Amazing Bhutan Trip
Amazing Bhutan Trip Dear Anand Happy new year. It’s nice to hear from you. The office work is so overwhelmed after I came back from Bhutan. Sorry I couldn’t reply to you sooner. The trip in Bhutan was truly amazing. Taiwan is almost the same size as Bhutan, but we have 23 million people. It
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Dec 21 - 25,2015Bhutan Customised Tour
Bhutan Customised Tour Stuti’s Feedback Hi Anand, Happy new year! We had an amazing trip. Tashi and Sonam (our driver) were wonderful and very flexible based on our needs. We also really enjoyed staying at two Le Meridien properties – both had excellent services and facilities. Our favorite part was the hike to the Tiger’s
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Khalid W. N.
Dec 03 - 06, 2015Flexible Bhutan Customised Trip
Flexible Bhutan customised Trip Dear Anand, Thank you for your email. Our trip to Bhutan was truly an amazing experience. I would like to thank you for welcoming us with hospitality into your country. The highlights 1.Warm on-time greeting at the airport by your professional tea 2.Extremely friendly, well-spoken, and very well-educated staff 3.Knowledgeable explanations
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Oct 31- 09 Nov, 2015Grand Cultural Tour
Grand Cultural Tour ( Penjor Lhendup) guide Hello Anand, Thank you for your interest in hearing about the experiences we enjoyed and our suggestions on what would have made our trip to Bhutan more memorable. We enjoyed our trip very much and found the Bhutanese people and culture to be fascinating and wonderful. We visited
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Oct15 -25, 2015Trip to Bhutan
Dear Anand and Jambay, Sorry it took me some time to get back to you with feedback – the end of the year is always extremely busy at work. Sorry also that I was not able to meet Jambay when he was in London – I was away the Friday Jambay suggested to meet –
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Elenor M
16-11-2015Bhutan Tour for Elenor
Bhutan Tour for Elenor Hi Anand, What I loved -the people / the country -my tour guide & driver Ideas for improvement -I had requested a more active itinerary, I didn’t feel quite satisfied with the actual options, as my tour guide had to improvise 1 or 2 hikes to keep me happy. I especially
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11-11-2015Honeymoon Trip to Bhutan
Hi Anand, Sorry for my late response but we returned to Chile just a few days ago :). After Bhutan, we spend the rest of our honeymoon in Cambodia, Thailand and Australia, but when we arrived home, we both agreed that the highlight of our trip was definitely Bhutan. Besides the landscapes and places, the
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Nov 04 - 14, 2015Bhutan Travel
Bhutan Travel ( Nov 04- 14) 2015 This November I toured Bhutan with Wind Horse Tours, Treks and Expeditions. It was my second time travelling with them. Both tours were terrific and I hold them in the highest regard. I organize small group tours (primarily for Baby Boomers) and much of the success of my
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Dan S
Nov 5 - 18, 2015Private Hiking Tour
Private Hiking Tour Dear Anand, Our trip to Bhutan with Wind Horse was extremely successful and the experience of a lifetime. I would not hesitate to recommend Wind Horse to others, and our guides and drivers were exceptional. We didn’t get to know our driver and guide very well for the first couple days in
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Robert
Oct 22 - Nov 09, 2015Paro-Laya-Gasa-Trekking
Our 13 day trekking from Paro to Laya and finally to Gasa was a absolute highlight. Landscape, culture and the friendly people we will keep in mind forever. Many thanks to our “super” guide Yeshi Penjor, who made a lot of things possible 🙂
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Sub
Oct 26- Nov 04, 2015Insightful Bhutan Tour
Bhutan Tour (Guide) Pem Tshomo Anand Thanks for your email – sorry about this delay in responding. The trip went very well and surpassed my expectations. It was very well organized and coordinated and I appreciated the flexibility in meeting my needs, even for the late night/evening visits to the festival and to take evening
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Scot A.S
Oct 26 -Nov 03, 2015Customised Bhutan Tour
Customised Bhutan Tour Dear Anand, Bhutan is my favorite country now, taking that spot from New Zealand. I felt at home almost immediately. Everyone is friendly and interested about where I’m from, what things are like there….strangely, things are very similar where I live. Albuquerque is a larger city than Thimphu but is about 1700
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Arpat O
Sept 27 - Oct11, 2015Cultural Tour and Snow Leopard Trek
Cultural Tour and Snow Leopard Trek. Hi guys, I hope all is well with you, and apologies for such long silence. After spending two wonderful weeks in Bhutan, we came back home to a heavy work load, and I just had the chance to put together all my photos from the trip. I don’t have
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Miranda K
11 - 21 Nov,2015Success Story of Bhutan Trip
Highly successful Bhutan Trip We are back more than a week now from our trip to Bhutan with Smith Travel. Despite a somewhat confusing start to the trip, when our itinerary changed substantially at the last minute, I wanted to let you know that, from our point of view, the Bhutan trip was an unqualified
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Oct 04 - 12, 2015Bhutan Tour for Lehman
Bhutan Tour for Lehman Dear Anand Thank you for contacting me regarding our trip to Bhutan. We only just returned from China, that’s why I didn’t get back to you earlier. Our trip to Bhutan was the highlight of our entire trip in Asia (in total 6 weeks) and we are very happy we’ve chosen
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Sept 20-27,2015Limitation of Indian e-tourist Visa
We had an 8 day trip to Bhutan & our Windhorse guides were excellent throughout. We especially appreciated their help when we tried to cross the land border from Bhutan into India. We had been told in Kolkata that the Indian e-tourist visa could be used here – it can’t! It can only be used
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Nov 1-3, 2015Wonderful Bhutan Trip
Bhutan Trip Hi Jambay and Ugen, I wanted to share with you that my wife and I had a wonderful time. We found the arrangements to be flexible and well thought out. We enjoyed our pleasant and capable driver, Ga Ga, very much, and we thought our guide, Nim Dem, was simply terrific! We found
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Oct 20 - 31, 2015Bhutan Trip for Andrea
Bhutan Trip for Andrea Hi Anand the trip went great, very glad I got to be in Bhutan. Enjoyed it very much. Sonam was a good guide, his strength is on the village tours mostly as he finds it very easy to connect with the people and was able to show me the life really
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James N.W
Nov 04 - 09,2015India Tour of Delhi, Agra & Jaipur
India Tour of Delhi, Agra & Jaipur (India Portion) Hi Santosh, We are now at the hotel in Delhi – reflecting on our great trip here. Thank you for making everything work so smoothly and adjusting to have Raj join. He was excellent to support our journey in many ways – and we got to
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Andrew H
Oct 23 - Nov 05, 2015Evaluation of the Trip
Dear Jambay, I am now home from Bhutan & Nepal and starting to get over my jet lag so wanted to drop you a short note regarding the tour. First, I want to thank you again for all the work you put into making the itinerary work well and your patience dealing with my many
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Oct 12 - Nov 02, 2015Bhutan Traverse from West to East, Oct, 2015
Bhutan Traverse from West To East, Oct, 2015 In October, 2015 we traversed Bhutan over 21 days with Wind Horse Tours on a Bhutan private tour. (This review is for the tour company, which also owns the ranch) . We had a superb, knowledgeable, caring guide in Sonam Pelden and expert driver in Yamraj. Despite
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