mt kailash kora with tibet vista tours
i joined a 13day tour to Mt Kailash to do a kora around the mountain,tour started 20th july 2026 I was never copied into the daily updates via phone as i joined the tour on the day of leaving and did not know about this form of communication the guide spoke english but never provided daily updates on the bus.day one lhasa to shigatse spent 13 hrs on the bus left hotel 9am arrived shigatse 10pm was advised that food would be available once we arrived at shigatse not so no where open at 10pm same issue the following day 13 hrs on the bus got to the ebc bus station 10pm in the evening no food available waited 2 hrs for a bus to the accommodation arrived 12 30 am got up 6 am to view MT everest what a fizzer mountain was fogged in so could not see it not that that worried me as i was not interested in seeing it any did all the tourist things on the 3 other trips to tibet i made day 3 more of the same long hrs on the bus more like a route march than a holiday.as stated i was not given any updates as to what was happening and the tour guide did not give daily updates did the kora day 1 okay ,day 2 mised where we were supposed to stay that night walked another 5 klms and paid for accommodation myself,only good thing about the kora guest houses were clean.arrived back in lhasa organised for the company to pick me up and take me to the airport agreed to by them said the car would be there at 11am at my hotel to take me to the airport never arrived luckily the was a tour guide from this company in the hotel lobby she organised a taxi to take me to the airport all good.i have done a couple of tours prior in tibet and have never had any issues with anything except with this company.i left lhasa on the 2/august and have asked for a refund for the hotel i payed for on the kora todays date is 1/oct as of yet i have receivd no refund from tibet vista tours only emails from someone called Kristin firstly telling me they can do it by paypal,secondly offered to double my cost of the accommodation i am still waiting for the refund to land in my account but do not hold out much hope. The only advice i would give fellow travellers if you use this company make sure you do not spend 13hrs a day (for3days) on a bus,as this gives you no opportunity to explore the places you stay at as you leave early morning and arrive late at night for 3 daysi have advised them to make the tour a day longer and give epole time to look around where they are staying but i doubt it will happen,would i use this company again yes but would be adamant about spending excessive amount of times on buses and would want better communication from the tour guide,i also had an issue with this kristin but she refused to talk to me about it speaks volumes about tibet vista tours. yours truthfully w keating