About Us
Our Team
Niraj
As well as Rural Heritage Journeys, which manages all aspects of tour operations, Niraj also heads the Rural Heritage Nepal division, which owns and operates a number of lovingly restored traditional Nepalese buildings converted into guest accommodations.
Abhi
The man who makes the 'magic' happen and runs the whole show. Abhi and his team work tirelessly to ensure all aspects of your bespoke holidays run as smoothly as possible. From arranging guides and porters to booking transport and accommodation. Abhi is the "main man".
Mark
UK-based, Mark personally manages all customer enquiries. With over 30 years of knowledge and experience as a Trek Leader (Himalayas and beyond), combined with senior management positions with some of the UK's best-known adventure travel companies, Mark will hand-craft your Himalayan adventure to perfection....just for you.
Our Guides
To be a professional guide with Snow Cat Travel isn’t easy. We only choose the very best for our clients. All Snow Cat Travel guides are both professionally qualified and licensed by the Government of Nepal. But there's a lot more to becoming a qualified Nepal Guide. Not only do we hand-pick Snow Cat Travel guides based on qualifications alone, guides are selected only with proven knowledge and experience criteria, but more than that, we look for personality too—a friendly nature with a “can-do” attitude. And yes, being able to speak English.
Find out what it takes to become a professional guide in Nepal and meet some of our amazing Snow Cat Travel guides too at the link below.
Our Support Crews
The real 'stars' of your trip are our support crews, who are so hardworking, conscientious, and cheerful in enabling our clients to experience Nepal and Bhutan to the utmost.
Invariably, our clients return from their Himalayan treks and adventure journeys full of praise, admiration, and respect for all the Nepalese and Bhutanese people who have ensured their holiday has been both wonderful and memorable. Our friendly, knowledgeable English-speaking guides are both trained and qualified. Their passion and enthusiasm are second-to-none. Of course, the type of support crew you'll have will depend on the itinerary itself.
Certainly you'll meet and get to know more than your guide, whether it be the gentleman who looks after our 'meet and greet' and transfer services for your arrival and departure at Kathmandu Airport, or our courteous drivers, whose high standards, patience, and skills negotiating traffic, potholes, and everything else overland travel in Nepal and Bhutan brings are just incredible. If you're heading into the Himalayas, then it's likely you'll have porters (pack animals, usually in Bhutan) to carry your main baggage. The first-time visitor is often astounded that porters are sometimes women too.
But being a trekking porter is considered a very good job, and our porters are paid a fair wage (in fact, respectable tour operators follow a code of practise for both porter wages and welfare), and the loads they carry are strictly limited to a regulated maximum. If your holiday involves camping, then you'll have additional trek support crew, such as a cook and his assistants, additional porters to carry all the camping gear, and so on. How they manage the whole operation of preparing breakfast (and bed tea, of course), breaking camp and packing up, and then most likely passing you on the trail and having camp set up and ready, welcoming you to camp with refreshments and with supper already on the go, is just mesmerising. That they do all of this seemingly without effort and always with a smile invariably endears them to our clients. Indeed, we actively encourage you to make the effort to get to know our Nepalese and Bhutanese people, who are working as part of your holiday team.
I have just got back from trip with snow cat to Annapurna Base Camp with some friends. We had an amazing time and the guides were excellent.
Support Rural Nepal
As a Snow Cat Travel customer, a contribution to the Support Rural Nepal project is included in the cost of your holiday.
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