Summary
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Travel to Nepal and Bhutan
From 28 August to 3 September 2023
Land portion per person in group of 4: US$ 4064* with online support from Guilherme Samel
Land portion per person in group of 2: US$ 4325* with online support from Guilherme Samel
Land portion per person in group of 6: US$ 3857* with online monitoring by Guilherme Samel
Value already including taxes US$ 200 per day from the Bhutanese government, hotels, breakfast in Nepal and Bhutan, lunch and dinner in Bhutan, car, driver, guides and tours.
Single Room Supplement: US$862**
Domestic flights Kathmandu – Paro – Kathmandu: US$ 700***
Nepal and Tibet trip 5 days
From 3 to August to 12 September 2023
5 days in Tibet and 10 in total
Land portion per person in group of 4: US$ 5623* with in-person support from Guilherme Samel
Land portion per person in group of 6: US$ 4812* on face-to-face monitoring by Guilherme Samel
Single Room Supplement: US$1166**
Domestic air Kathmandu – Lhasa – Kathmandu: US$ 700***
Nepal and Tibet trip 8 days
From 3 to August to 15 September 2023
8 days in Tibet and 13 in total
Land portion per person in group of 4: US$ 6515* with in-person support from Guilherme Samel
Land portion per person in group of 6: US$ 5571* on face-to-face monitoring by Guilherme Samel
Single Room Supplement: US$1449**
Domestic air Kathmandu – Lhasa – Kathmandu: US$ 700***
Trip Nepal 2 Tibet 11 days
From 3 to August to 18 September 2023
11 days in Tibet and 16 in total
Land portion per person in group of 4: US$ 7715* with in-person support from Guilherme Samel
Land portion per person in group of 6: US$ 6600* on face-to-face monitoring by Guilherme Samel
Single Room Supplement: US$1890**
Domestic air Kathmandu – Lhasa – Kathmandu: US$ 700***
Days with different group sizes
Adjustments will be made to both groups: the group to follow in Tibet and the group to return to Nepal. For example the 2 days and 1 night in Nepal with assisted transfers, tours and accommodation:
Land portion per person in a group of 1 person: US$ 589*
Land share per person in a group of 2 people: US$ 335*
Single Room Supplement: US$126**
With online accompaniment from Guilherme Samel who will follow with the group in Tibet
International Flights
Latest quotations (São Paulo – Kathmandu / Kathmandu – São Paulo): from US$ 2200****
More Possibilities and Values for Travel to Bhutan and Tibet
Chörten Supports
Creating the Travel Program in an extremely personalized way explained in more detail here;
Traveller Preparation to travel in these regions with quality as explained in more detail here;
Travel Logistics and Organization with the care and quality Chörten explained in more detail here;
Accompaniment During the Trip 24/7 as explained in more detail here;
Chörten Supports are already included in the trip price (above). More details here;
Land Arrangements
Accompaniment in person of specialist Guilherme Samel during the trip to Nepal and Tibet, and online support in Bhutan, as described in the detailed itinerary: during visits, car and plane travel in Nepal and Bhutan and Tibet.
Arrivals and Departures are made with full assistance from our local partners. Upon international arrival in Kathmandu, our local partner maintains telephone contact with Guilherme Samel, Director of Chörten, who in this way accompanies carefully arriving at the hotel;
extra activities, described and foreseen in the travel programs with in-person support from Guilherme Samel, are included. It is always possible and very meritorious to make some more spontaneous contribution to these teachers, if you wish;
Tips: in programs with face-to-face support from Guilherme Samel, we take care of good part of them for you leaving only around US$ 5 to 8 per day explained in more detail in the trip briefing;
Visits as mentioned in the travel program with the tickets included. If, by chance, there is any special opportunity for an extra activity consistent with the theme of the trip, the travel specialist may suggest changing the order of visits, such as, more rarely, exchanging a visit for this activity;
Local guides will accompany the group in visits to monuments and other tours in general, except for a few regions that the Brazilian specialist of the trip knows well and is more pleasant to visit without guides (explained in detail in the briefing as before being interested), or when mentioned accordingly in the program of trip;
Land transport in the group's own vehicles with extra care as the number of seats used, no need to use seats when they are not reclining and luggage space a little larger than what is often offered in these countries;
Accommodation in double rooms in the hotels mentioned on the accommodation page. In general, check-ins are at 14 pm and check-outs are at 12 pm. If you need an earlier check-in on your arrival in Kathmandu or a later check-out on your departure from Kathmandu, please let us know so that we can check the rates and make the reservations as you wish.
Meals: breakfasts are included in the hotel rates for the entire trip. Specifically in Bhutan, lunches and dinners are also included except bottled drinks;
Government Visas and Fees in Bhutan travel programs are included in the terrestrial part;
Visas and Special Permissions in Tibet travel programs are included in the terrestrial part;
*Group values and sizes: will be calculated according to the number of people in the group on each day of the trip. For example, on the last days when the group breaks up, each part of the group will have the value adjusted to the number of people traveling together on those days. With the difference that the part of the group that continues to travel with Guilherme Samel in person will have the value including Guilherme's travel costs. The part of the group that continues to travel without being accompanied by Guilherme Samel will not have the value including Guilherme's travel costs. If by chance it does not form a group with the numbers of people mentioned above, as if the number of people is greater, we will recalculate the value of the land part accordingly. Values already calculated: here;
**Single room supplement in case of your preference or need if there is not a partner for accommodation in a double room;
Does not include:
Meals and drinks except breakfast (except on days in Bhutan which include lunches and dinners as mentioned above). On average we can consider that with US$ 35 per day we eat very well in these countries, depending on what, where and how much we eat and in small towns much less;
Transport where not mentioned in the program (short and medium taxis usually cost between $5 and 10);
Part of the tips (very important in these cultures): around US$5 and US$8 per day explained better in the trip briefing;
Voluntary contributions to monasteries, temples, and Dharma teachers that we may encounter while traveling;
Nepal Visa ($50 for up to 30 days between your first and last days in Nepal on your trip, more here);
Travel insurance: very important and therefore highly recommended;
Entrance fees to the monuments for camera and/or camcorder when available (usually between US$ 1 and 5 only in cases where it is charged);
Program changes in case of political unforeseen events, flight cancellations, political conflicts, epidemic, climatic and geographic unforeseen events, new fees and taxes, etc., as well as by governments and/or local service providers in Brazil / Nepal / Bhutan / Tibet;
*** Domestic airlines
Economic class economy on flights from Lhasa and business on flights from Paro. Please let us know in advance (at the time of registration) if you would like to take a look at the possibility of business class on domestic flights. Values subject to change, only confirmed at the time of purchase of tickets;
Maximum weight Allowed checked bag on flights between India/Nepal/Bhutan/Tibet: around 20kg. Excess weight may be charged by the airline at check-in: around US$ 5 to 8 per extra kg (except some specific routes that airlines started to charge more / we will check carefully); More information: here
Values subject to change no prior notice from airlines;
**** International Flights
In advance: in general, the sooner we issue our tickets, the better fares and routes we find. Promotional rates are unpredictable, tend to run out very quickly and have extremely high fees for any kind of changes in the future. These, when made available, are very worthwhile if we have very certain round-trip dates, that is, the main programs and extensions that we will make;
Purchasing it: it is always prudent to wait for confirmation from the group before issuing the international air. We confirm our groups with a very small number of people;
Form of payment: the international air fare is normally paid in 5 interest-free installments by airlines on Visa and Mastercard cards;
Tibet situation
Tibet is about to open any day now. The entire covid situation in China is already normalizing. Tibet is expected to open in April. By September, with our 23 years of experience in these regions, we understand that the situation in Tibet will be the same as in the years before the pandemic. Tibet is a politically delicate region. So it is unpredictable. We have a lot of experience and guarantee the trip in the best possible way, to the point that sometimes we are almost the only foreign travellers there.
hotels in Bhutan
The hotels in the category we chose are more demanding regarding reservation and cancellation policies. We will probably need to change the hotel in Punakha as they work with a non-refundable deposit to confirm the reservation. When we have a confirmed group, we will check and together we will choose hotels of the same category, especially the one in Punakha.
Service Providers, Infrastructure and Local Cultures
We have a lot of experience operating travel in these regions of the world. We work with very good local partners within the possibilities of these countries. Even so, it is important to bear in mind that the quality of services and local infrastructure (hotels, transportation, food, etc.) are not the same as in Brazil, Europe and North America. Most of the time, they will surprise us very positively, for example, for their human qualities and, sometimes, even for the technical aspect of the service. But unforeseen and problems must happen. It is our job, responsibility and even pleasure, at Chörten and our partners, to foresee them and, when necessary, take care of getting around them in the best possible way. So that, in this way, the most important responsibility falls to Travellers: to enjoy the trip in the most peaceful, pleasant and profitable way possible. As part of this responsibility, we understand that we are traveling in these incredible countries and cultures, very different from ours in many aspects and that teach us so much. The better we understand these cultures, the better quality and tranquility we will enjoy our trip.
With the preparations for the trip well taken care of, with all our assistance and support, from boarding the flight here in Brazil until your return, you will see that your trip will be very smooth, well cared for, very well enjoyed, fun, with significant lessons that we will bring from come back and they will be of great value to us in our lives.
Exchange (only for Brazilians)
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Cancellation Policies
The cancellation policies of the Land Arrangements and Domestic Flights will take effect from the moment of payment of the down payment, when we confirm the accommodation reservations, we issue air and train tickets according to the necessary advance of each trip. These vary from service provider to service provider that we use on our trip (hotels, airlines, etc). In general, cancellations up to 90 days before the start of the trip have their payments refunded almost in full, with small cancellation fees from local airlines, train tickets, hotels, local operators and banks. From 60 days before the start of the trip, cancellation fees increase gradually, varying from service provider to service provider. Still, we will definitely do our best and talk to each service provider to see what we can get for a refund even after this date. With regard to airline tickets, each airline and fare has its own cancellation policy.The cancellation policy of Supports by Chörten is linked to the beginning of the services provided: Setting up the Travel Program, Traveller Preparations, Logistics and Organization of the Trip and Accompaniment During the trip. For example, we will not charge for Accompaniment if we do not accompany (online or in person) the trip. If the other services are already being provided, they can be used at another time without new charges (only adjustments if any) and so there will be no refund.
Payment
O signal (approx. 33% of the cost of the land portion, varying from trip to trip) is paid into the Chörten account in Brazil at the time of registration, with half of this amount being payable up to 60 days before the trip;
The balance of land part and domestic air: 50% at the time of confirmation of reservations and tickets and 50% up to 60 days before the trip can be paid directly to the operators with an online credit card. We recommend this way so that we can legally obtain the lowest possible values (explained below). There is the possibility of direct payment into the Chörten account in Brazil, but government fees in Brazil will be higher and will need to be included;
We have already included 5% in the prices for land and domestic air travel for payments made by card by the Traveller (banks in India and Nepal charge a little less than 5% for card payments). So, in a legal way, we can seek to reduce taxes on your trip;
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To confirm your place on the trip we ask:
- Application form: on here
- Copy (scan) of passport here
- Advance payment: on here
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