Beautiful experience of hiking, visiting and living the every day and festive habits of a smiling nation. To start with, we attended 2 days of a tsechu in Paro what give us the peace and the religious mood to understand the natural kindness of all the people we were to meet during our stay.

We had then a one week trekking uphill with mules to carry our bags and accompanied with very friendly and careful guides: we had nothing to worry about, when we arrived at the campsites, the tents were already set, tea was ready and we only had to wait for a nice meal, different every day (even with fresh fish from the lakes we were passing around) without forgetting the desserts (pancakes, puddings...). At night we used
to talk together around a nice fire with a cup of tea. The best moment of the day was the wake-up with hot water for washing and the traditional cup of tea when daylight was still starting and dew all around. When walking we could see lots of rhododendrons but ... missed the snow-leopard!
The stages of the trekking were well proportioned and we arrived in Thimphu without any trouble. We had a few days visiting the dzongs in and outside Thimphu and had a first experience of the roads in this mountain-country.
The major event of our trip was our meeting with the Prime Minister who explained us the policy of Bhutan progressively opened to modernity in order to keep the people busy and happy in their remote countries and not to gather them all in the cities.  We have been
very impressed by the understanding and the wisdom of that man who had been living in Europe and was preserving his people of the failings of the too industrialized and wealthy countries. The way back along a very steep road to the Indian border in a minivan and Kencho'a own car, was extraordinary. We went down from the mountains to the
flat country and didn't know where to look around  all the kinds of trees and flowers, the steepness of the precipices, the rivers and waterfalls, and everywhere green, green and green. Fortunately we didn’t have to drive ourselves and to look at the narrow and sometimes very bad road and not to worry about the huge trucks we were crossing coming from India with all kinds of goods and material along the only road climbing through the valley.
To end with the organization was perfect, the guides so friendly that we couldn't leave them and had a last meal all together in a restaurant in Phuntsoling, and Kencho on top of all this, managing her business with competence and smile.

I wish her a great success in her travel agency!

Snow White Treks and Tours gave me one of the best travel experiences of my life--the perfect introduction to beautiful Bhutan. Kencho provided attentive, personal service and made certain that the trip was tailored to my interests. My guide, Dorje, was a wonderful travel companion who served as driver, naturalist, historian, teacher, and friend. If I am lucky enough to return to Bhutan, I will use Snow White again, and I highly recommend this exceptional travel service to others.

John Herzfeld, Louisville, KY USA. email: jherz@loucol.com

"We could come to Bhutan in last autumn 2003 to perform a photographic report, and we decided to choose Snow white Trek and Tours of Ms. Kencho Wangmo Dorji to fulfill our purpose. We have to say that we enjoyed very much our stay with Kencho, the guide that she kindly provided, and all the staff of people who accompanied us during the treks. Our tour was a combination of both a cultural trip and a succession of treks in the mountains. Despite our rather fussy requirements for that photographic reporting, we were always able to do what we wanted to do and see. Kencho and her guide were very flexible, helpful, and extremely friendly. We had the pleasure to share and exchange many thoughts, gifts, and many other tokens of friendship. It was a wonderful experience from a human perspective, and of course also because Bhutan is a lovely country to visit.

Not only were the people of Snow white very close and attentive to us, but everything was perfectly professionally organised, whether it was during the treks (with excellent food and cooking!), or during our road tour, where we stayed in very nice and excellent hotels. Such a demanding trip (more than five thousand pictures accumulated in a little more than two weeks) would probably have been extremely difficult in other circumstances, but again the people of Snow white did everything they could to help us, and we must grant them our deepest acknowledgment for having made 100% successful such an unusual experience.

Susanna and Yves Finet, Geneva, Switzerland. email: yves.finet@mhn.ville-ge.ch  / info@actionnature.org

A complete immersion into another world, where kindness, good humour, magnificent scenery carries one far away from the every day stress of our normal European lives. A wonderful breath of fresh air in every sense of the term. Snow White organized a very interesting and well prepared tour, everything ran according to plan and we were taken care of from the minute we arrived till the minute we left. Very difficult to re-adapt upon return! 

Wendy O’Ferrall & Sybil Inglin, Geneva, Switzerland 2004. email: wof@tele2.ch