Hi, thanks:) Doing a bespoke tour for just the two of us cost about 1500 USD per person for the nine days. As far as spending money/in-country costs, that was almost negligible as meals were cheap and a few entrance tickets here and there cost very little. You’d also want to factor in tips for your guide and driver, and the visa itself is a separate cost you pay on arrival, plus an arrival tax. We shopped around and were quoted very similar prices for the most part.

Thanks, that’s great to hear! I know what you mean about costs:) – I haven’t added much about that here because, I think it mainly comes down to the quote from your tour operator. They book everything and you pay for it like a package up front, so the individual transport costs are all rolled up in there – ie you aren’t buying tickets and paying fares as you go. Mainly you’d have some control over that if you were on a private tour (like ours) and specified that you preferred certain trains/flights – whatever. Re the guide, we received two quotes from the operators we talked to: one with guide, one without.