VELTRA tours & activities, fun things to do

Meant for beginners

Let me be clear, the guides from this tour are great. However, there were 38 people in my group, which is insane. Next, the pace that the tour guides force everybody to walk at is slower than a turtle. I completely understand they are trying to accommodate the slowest and least fit hikers, but this was super frustrating. It took us 6 hours to get from 5th station to 8th station. We stopped every 20 minutes for breaks. During our sleep over in the hut at 8th station, everyone was literally given a space to sleep in that was 2 feet wide (about 60 cm). This was awkward and impossible. Finally, my group never got to summit the mountain because there was poor weather the morning of our summit. Other independent hikers were summiting, however, we likely didn’t because our guides were concerned about the inexperienced hikers in our group.....I mean, one guy was actually hiking in skinny black denim jeans!!! In conclusion, I could have summited and descended back to 5th station in around 7 hours. This group reaches only 8th station in 6 hours. If you are a meditate level hiker or better, just do this hike independently.