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“My wife and I just finished a terrific trip to Nepal, which we arranged through Swotah Travel. We found Swotah through the Insight Guides guidebook to Nepal. Through several months of online and email discussions and planning, Swotah helped us plan the trip of a lifetime within our moderate budget. In Nepal Swotah staff Elisha (can't remember her last name) and Sijal Rana coordinated our activities, and local guides Basansta Raimaji (Kathmandu, Bhaktapur and Nagarkot) and Dipak and Anita Bastola (Pokhara) were outstanding in their understanding, communication, hospitality and ability to add context to the sights we were seeing. We are generally independent travelers who don't go on large tours and who set our own agendas, but we decided we needed help to negotiate Nepal, make hotel and travel arrangements and assist us in getting to the places we wanted to see. Basansta, Dipak and Anita added a tremendous amount to our trip. We went to Kathmandu, Patan, Bhaktapur, Nagarkot, Chitwan National Park and Pokhara before returning to Kathmandu and coming home. We went on an Everest viewing flight and enjoyed tremendous views of the Himalayas, especially from Nagarkot near Kathmandu and Sarangkot near Pokhara. We saw magnificent Hindu shrines and Buddhist stupas, and the explanations we received from Basansta, Dipak and Anita added greatly to our appreciation. Finally, Swotah's owner both greeted us on our first day in Kathmandu and met with us on our final evening to discuss how the trip went. We both want to return to Nepal and would be very happy to use Swotah again to make our arrangements. We give them our highest recommendation.”

“The Insight Guides is an excellent resource for trip planning! We used them to refer us to an agency in Vietnam that helped us with logistics through Vietnam and Cambodia. As that was a successful endeavor, we again reached out to Insight Guides to help us plan our trip to Balkans countries, and the on-the-ground logistics were handled expertly. We could not rate Insight Guides more highly.”

“We a great experience with our trip to Kyrgyzstan & Uzbekistan. We had a series of very knowledgeable local guides and friendly drivers who helped bring the different locations to life and travel safely. To get the most out of a trip, you do need to get time to yourselves to make the most of locations & not to rush; also to build in contingency time, in case circumstances dictate change. This is where the planning process, and creation of custom itineraries are extremely helpful & valuable.”

“I just returned after 18 glorious days in Indonesia, organized by Insight Guides. The organization was excellent, their choices of guides and drivers was impeccable, and it all made for a very enjoyable trip. I would highly recommend them to any traveller.”

“We had a great experience in Vietnam. Our selected tour guide Justravel Asia were absolutely perfect, seamless arrangements from the first chat with Han our contact to the final day of our trip. This is our 3rd time using Insight Guides and we have never had any major issues. Highly recommend.”

“Fantastic trip to Vietnam. We booked Trails of Indochina through Tough Guide and they were fabulous. Listened to what we wanted and what hotels we liked and put together a great itinerary which we then tweaked a little bit. We did the North, Central and South Vietnam and had a separate guide and driver for each. The guide was helpful and spoke great English.”