We visited Tibet with Windhorse Tour on the Everest Base Camp tour in early November. It wasn't too cold. I thought it was the best time of year to go to Tibet (if you are not trekking). We had beautiful weather for our day at Everest Base Camp. Our guide Tenzin and driver Cherpa were awesome! Tenzin's knowledge of Buddhism and Tibet was very impressive and really allowed us to understand everything we were seeing. Tibet is not crowded in November and we saw more Tibetans than foreigners or Chinese which was great! Murphy was fantastic working out all the details for the trip and especially in arranging and handling the delivery of the Tibet permit. Getting the permit is very complicated but everything went smoothly once we started our trip. If you are going to Tibet, I highly recommend the Windhorse Tour to Everest Base Camp with return to Lhasa. NOTE: I do not recommend the tour that goes overland to the Nepal border as the road on the Nepal side is very very bad. If you are going to Nepal after Tibet, it's best to fly to Kathmandu from Lhasa.

Windhorse Tour was very collaborative in planning our visit to China: they answered quickly any our question or doubt, they satisfied our wishes about itinerary but also suggested something new or different. On the road we had always their assistance if needed. Cars were comfortable and efficient; drivers and guides were very professional. One regret: no chance to talk with the drivers: we dont speak chinese, they speak chinese only.

Overall, this agency provided excellent service. But, the accommodation in EBC and Namsto were disappointed. EBC, 10 of us slept in the same camp, while earlier arrangement was 8 only. in Namsto, the hotel provided bad service, did not want to provide hot water, and the bed heater was not function properly.