26 Oct 2022
This tour was supposed to be a private guided tour of four UNESCO Heritage sites in Kathmandu. I told them up front I had already been to one of the places so I only wanted to go to three of the places. When the driver showed up, he did not speak English. He took me to the first place and just dropped me off. He did not even go in with me. I was not happy. I used Google Translate to tell him that I had paid $100 for a guided tour. I did not pay that much simply for a taxi service. I told him that if he was not able to speak English he could at least go inside with me and show me where to go, maybe take a few photos of me on my phone. He said okay. Then the second place he took me, he tried to get one of the "guides" who are always at the tourist sites, trying to make a quick buck. I told him no, I did not want to pay even more money on top of what I had already paid. I told him he needed to take me and show me around, even if he could not talk to me about what I was seeing. So finally he did. He ended up taking me around and showing me where to go, and taking photos for me. He was actually very nice. I got the impression he was not told what he was supposed to be doing. But the company knew he did not speak English, so they never should have sent him to accompany me on this "private tour".