Problems With Satyam Travels

1. The biggest problem I had with Satyam travel company is that they transferred us to another company and separated us from our original group. That should have never happened. They should have either sold the entire group to the other company or taken non Indians from the other company. That being said all other problems may not have happened that happened during this journey.
2. We did not get to do parikrama of Kailash because our Chinese guide gave us a whole bunch of lies (I really want to say BS) about Chinese government not letting visitors through Darchen, and then changed their story that oh they are allowing only if you get in Darchen by 7am. Then suddenly that got changed into – that is also not happening. And then it was no way to get our guides to take us for parikrama. It was as if they just did not want to take us. We felt so cheated at this point.
3. We never got the land cruisers as promised. The terrain is not meant for buses and vans; there are too many highs and lows and dirt roads. Land cruisers would have made the journey more comfortable.
4. Communication was bad all the way through. We never knew who was really in charge and making the decisions during this trip. We did not know who our Nepali or Tibetian/Chinese guides were until the last couple days of the trip.
5. In the end when we wanted our Tibetian/Chinese leader to take us back to Darchen (from Nyalam) for parikrama he wanted to charge us unbelievable amount of money. It was as if that is what he wanted all along.
6. There was no doctor in the group as promised by the travel company. There would have been no way to treat a person with hypoxia or other altitude symptoms.
7. I did not see any oxygen tanks in the vehicle.
8. Everyone was told there would be a Sherpa travelling with them, but what is the point of this Sherpa if he does not English or Hindi or Nepali etc. The sherpas were really just the cooks, not guides by any means.