Asia Sightseeing Trips

This trip takes you in jeeps round narrow mountain roads up to amazing scenery at over 4000 metres, with glaciers and snow- capped mountains, as well as, bizarrely, high sand dunes to climb. Warm hats and walking poles are recommended. It gets cold in the open jeeps and at night, too, in June. Islamabad is hot, so pack a variety of clothes. Pakistan is mainly squat toilets. Buckets for washing rather than showers are available in one hotel but the location and scenery made up for it . Climbing into the jeep through the window might be a challenge for some but for me it was part of the adventure . Very few tourists and the people are very friendly and welcoming.

The 'Karakoram' tour in Pakistan was wonderful - scenery was amazing, there's history, great opportunities for contact with local people, exciting adventures in open-top jeeps and great support from the tour leader, Sajid Ali, accompanying guides (Jahangir and Shiraz) and drivers. Having all meals included on this tour was a bonus - food was excellent, and there was no time-wasting over orders and payment (all food was buffet with plenty of choice). The flight from Skardu to Islamabad was spectacular. We couldn't do all the activities, but there were options. We felt safe the whole time and found the local people to be very friendly and helpful.

Vietnam was fantastic, hotels, tours and tour guide excellent. Cambodia, we were supposed to fly from siem reap to phnom Penh, but instead had a bus ride taking 7 hours. The driver took unnecessary risks. I felt the tour guide was not the appropriate person to guide and talk about the killing fields and we would have been better having an audio tape.

You need to do a better job with flights. Our return flight was booked for 12:05am March 31st. The remainder of our group had all left by 2 pm. No shuttle offered to us although our guide did order us a taxi which we had to pay for. Considering that you did such a poor job with booking our flights it should have been at your expense. We did get a late checkout of 2pm but it still was 10 hours we had to kill before we got on the plane. It got worse from there as they were only able to give us a ticket to Shanghai ( not right through to Edmonton) It meant we had to pick up our luggage get through security again( which was no easy process) and lug our luggage around for 10 hours before we got on our flight to Edmonton. You knew we were going on this trip for a year and yet you wait until late November to book our flights, consequently we had crappy connections. It was not the perfect ending to an enjoyable trip!

Every day of the itinerary was a great experience

This tour did not follow the itinerary originally set out. Please tell Trafalgar travellers that the tour may leave out places that were originally identified on the tour plan. Wonderful tour guides. Very knowledgeable about the culture and history of the Vietnamese and Cambodian people. Wonderful information from our known guides on the history of historical and heritage sites. Wonderful cuisine experience !!