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Andrew Ferguson (Mr.), Daniel Scholnick (Mr.), Deepa Subramanian (Ms.), Nikhil Kacker (Mr.), An Le (Ms.), Rashi Kacker (Ms.)

From: United States

Itinerary: 7 Days Xishuangbanna Juggle Trekking in Yunnan

Thanks Echo. I'm all set for the trip now. You've been most helpful and responsive, I'm very much looking forward to the trip, and I have no doubt everything is well planned. I will look forward to doing more future trips with you, and will recommend you to my friends.

Thanks,
Tony

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Tony Kuen Lee & Susan Ting Lee

From: United States

Itinerary: 12 Days Solk Road Tour (Guangzhou-Urumqi-Kashgar-Turpan-Dunhuang-Jiayuguan-Tianshui-Xi'an)

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Ning-Chia Yeh

From: United States

Itinerary: 13 Days Silk Road Tour (Beijing-Badan Jaran Desert-Zhangye-Jiayuguan-Dunhuang-Turpan-Urumqi- Kashagar-Beijing)

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Michael Edward Lyons, Beth Garcia, Michael Crispin Dressman, Shera Danielle Boms

From: United States
Itinerary: 15 Days China & Tibet Tour (Beijing-Xi'an-Xining-Tibet-Mt.Everest-Zhangmu Border)

Dear Echo,

We are now back in Norway and already started at work. We will thank you for a well organized tour and both driver and guide have been pleasant to be together with on the journey. Every day on the tour was full of new impressions, both nature and culture/religion and people we met under way.

In our luggage we had some footballs and pens/paper, which we gave to nomadic communities under way. This gave us good contact with people and we were invited into their tents, we also attended festivals both in Daofu and Gyantse, with dancing, markets, horse show and folklore. Also no doubt that monasteries and temples are of big cultural value for the people of Tibet and China .

If some of our friends would like to go to Tibet we will have no doubt recommending PTA Travel.

Once again thank you.

Best regards,
Astrid Henriksen and Stein Jenssen.

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Beat Pachlatko, Nicholas Thorne, Astrid Henriksen and Stein Jenssen
From: Norway , Germany and Switzerland
Itinerary: Sichuan / Tibet / Everest Base Camp 4WD 16 Days Tour

Dear Hayley,

This message is from Bangkok while we are waiting our connecting flight to Paris .

First of all, let us thank you again for the nice gift that will make us thinking many times to you and your kindness.

Thank you also for your efficiency and the help that you brought to us in the achievement of a fantastic trip in Tibet . I take this opportunity to ask you to forward our best regards to Mr Chen, he designed an excellent tour for us!

The driver Tashi was excellent. Safe, efficient, punctual, and a very kind man. We enjoyed a lot the 2 sessions we had with him to Shigatse and Tsedang. And the guide Tenzi is full of good willing, accompanied us until the end. He is a nice chap, and perfectly corresponding to our expectations.

A final message, to your colleague Maggie: Please send her our warmest regards and thanks for both the Emei Shan Tour and all the advices she gave to us for Chengdu restaurants and markets. All were highly appreciated and extensively used.

So, your contributions from you and Maggie helped us performing a very beautiful and enjoyable trip in Tibet and Sichuan . Many thanks again for that, and let's keep in touch.

Best regards,
Christine & Gabriel

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Gabriel Marquette and Christine Fumoux
From: French,
Itinerary: Tibet ( Lhasa / Gyantse / Shigates / Tsedang/) 13 Days Cultural Tour

Dear Echo,

Thank you for your arrangement of travel and tour for the 5 of us. We had a great time!

Both the English-speaking guide, Daniel, and the driver Mr. Liao were good and very responsive. We liked them both and tipped them handsomely. I think Harriet may get in touch with you again as she planned to take her sister and niece to Kunming next spring.

I definitely will contact you again for future China domestic travel!!! I serve as a Board member for the Santa Barbara -Weihai Sister City Association and since both cities are famous for tourism, I'm thinking of arranging tours to visit China sometimes in the future. Do you have connections to the eastern part of China ? If not, maybe you should try to extend your services to all over China . You were very efficient and businesslike and I would like to use your service again.

Wei-ling

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Wei-ling Dai, Maria Teresa Marquez, Sadie Barr Hall, Harriet H. Ying and Christina K. Colbert
From: USA
Itinerary: Yunnan ( Kunming / Dali / Lijiang) 5 Days leisure Tour

Dear lonely planet team,

I' ve been travelling with your books for the past 3 years now and I' ve been travelling a lot. I' ve always wanted to give you some updates about prices and/or other issues. This time I will, because I want to share my experience with fellow travelers.
It all started in 2004 when I was riding the Transsib from Beijing to Moscow . I was going through your China edition, when I ran over the Sichuan - Tibet Highway . Within the particular chapter one could read: one of the most beautiful and dangerous roads in the world.....

As soon as I had returned to my current hometown Seoul in Korea , I started working out a trip.

It had to be completly legal and, more so, it had to be very well organised.

I also bought your Tibet edition and was sort of frustrated to read (6th, May 2005, pg 316) that the Sichuan Tibet Hwy is not legaly open to foreign travellers.

One year of research and 9 months of intense communication later with a private Chinese Company, residing in Chengdu , we finally started our trip flying into Chengdu from Seoul via Beijing . We were picked up at the airport and placed in a very nice Hotel in Chengdu . We stocked up all necessary equipment and the following day we started at an elevation of 500m above sea level. From my experience I can say the entire trip was not only perfectly organized with a great driver and a knowlegable English spaeking tour guide, it was also very much taken in consideration that we were very gradually climbing in elevation day by day, always ensuring that we stayed over night at lower elevations than we had crossed earlier that day.

The trip itself included both cultural highlight as sceneries and landscapes beyond believe. We were equipped with a top model Toyota Landcruiser which hauled us over saealed roads, gravel, through muddy passages and through rivers were the road had been washed away. Up and down winding roads, crossing several passes over 5000m and many many over 4500m . Our driver stopped any place we asked him to, some times 20 times a day for taking picures, for having a snack or just for drinking a coffee in most remote areas.

After ten days we reached Lhasa . Besides minor exhaustion, none of us experienced serious montain sickness. Should one of us had been suffering from lack of oxygen, our guide would have been prepared to treat with oxygen, which we never had to make use of.

Food along the Northern Route of Sichuan Hwy proofed to be a challenge in the beginning, but our guide quickly anticipated our individual needs and than always found proper places. Regarding the rising remotness of our route, we concluded that we were accomodated in the best available hotels. Standards were, with one exception, always good.

Once we had crossed from Sichuan into Tibet , our guide formally registered the group upon arrival in Chamdo, presented all permits, and we were to move on. Not once were we stopped, checked or controlled. Not even at military installations which we had to pass.

As a party of 4 we spent a reasonable price for 10 days, including all accommodation, food, permits, etc. The travel agency set up a trust deed too.

From my experience I can say a great deal for a reasonable price, a lot of expertise and carefull planing to meet customers satisfaction.

Sincerely,

Winfried Lorek (Frankfurt/Germany)

P.S. I include the companies eMail address for your infomation

Ms. Echo Wang

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Winfried Lorek, Kay Groneberg, Markus Frauenfeld and Christiane Frauenfeld
From: Germany
Itinerary: Chengdu - Lhasa Overland 4WD 10 Days Tour

Dear Maggie,

Tomorrow we have to say good bye to Mao and we really had a wonderful time with him. Our Sechuanese is also quite good!

Now we will invite Mao for our last dinner and we hope he will have a safe journey back to Chengdu.

I will send you some photos when I will be back in Austria.

And we hope for your next customers (though I do not know if this is possible...)

All the best from Lhasa
Christian

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Mr. Christian Potocan, Martin Mucha, Stefan Potocan and Martin Reichegger
From: Austria
Itinerary: Zhongdian / Lhasa Overland 4WD Tour

We are very happy with the tour guide. I can highly recommend her for future clients. She spoke good English and made sure that we saw everything. She was also flexible when we asked her to make a stop at a specific store. She was very professional. The hotel was good and the location was very good as well. We joined a show in the evening, which our tour guide recommended us and she got us seats in the 1st row. We were very happy about that and the show was excellent.

Thank you for your service.

Kind regards,
Renate

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Mr. Paul Beausoleil and Ms. Renate Kouba
From: USA and Switzerland
Itinerary: China & Tibet Tours