We had an amazing experience with Cusco Local Friend! They are a local company and everyone we met was so caring, knowledgeable and excited to share their history. We hired them for an airport transfer from Cusco airport to Ollantaytambo and also another day for a full day Sacred Valley tour. When we were picked up from the airport, the owner called us and gave us tips for Peru to avoid altitude sickness and traveler stomach issues and asked if we had any questions - it was very nice and thoughtful. For our Sacred Valley tour we had Abraham as a guide and Edger as a driver and they were great! Abraham was very kind and so knowledgeable! We learned so much on our tour! Definitely would hire them again if we go back.
An unforgettable Sacred Valley experience!
Our tour with Abraham and Edgar was our favorite experience so far in Peru! We did the Absolute Sacred Valley tour (thanks Percy for advising us on the tour that best fit our schedule). It was an incredible time thanks to Abraham’s deep knowledge of Incan history and the region. Not only did we learn a lot, but we also had so much fun going to the alpaca farm, seeing the salt mines, exploring the Ollantaytambo Ruins, and having lunch with Abraham and Edgar. I cannot recommend Cusco Local Friend enough — it has been a smooth and unforgettable experience from start to finish :)
Enjoyable Tour of Machu Picchu
I booked a tour with Cusco Local Friend and had Juan Carlos as my guide. Juan initially greeted me with a sign that had my name on it which was very helpful. He came along with me for the bus rides and handling my entrance to MP which made everything a breeze! During the tour, Juan Carlos explained the history of Machu Picchu and the Inkas. I really appreciated how much history Juan Carlos knew and I could tell that this is his passion. He was also very patient and took lots of photos for me. I really enjoyed this tour which was all because of Juan Carlos.For the booking process, Percy H assisted me with booking this tour and was so patient answering all of my questions. He was very organized and good with communicating with me. I highly recommend this this tour company. They are very good and care about making sure that their clients have a good learning and enjoyable experience!
The best tour company!
Absolutely choose this tour group to go and see Machu Picchu! We had Abraham as our guide and he was knowledgeable, genuine, and took great care of us. He is Incan and can speak Quechua, and provided us with so much insight to his personal culture. He even took us to a lunch spot after our tour. Absolutely use this company over the other ones if you want a personable, genuine, and incredible trip to this amazing Incan wonder.
Excellent tour guide and driver! Very professional and extremely knowledgeable. They made sure to not skimp out on any of the details even when it put us back later than they planned. He wanted to make sure we saw everything! Truly a great company! We had a group of 8 friends in our group and was able to have a private driver and tour guide for the entire day. The van was very clean and comfortable. They will personalize: the experience to whatever you would like. We had an all day tour to the sacred valley. 100% satisfied!
Just finished an amazing day with Abraham! It was a great day. He spent a very long time with us. He’s very knowledgeable and wants to make sure you have a good experience.
Fantastic Sacred Valley Tour
Fantastic tour! We spent a day going to the Sacred Valley. They made sure we saw everything even though it made it to we got back late. The guide, Abraham, was very kind and very knowledge. The driver was fantastic too. I would highly recommend!
Best historical Inca tour!
This was an amazing all day tour. Abraham had an answer to any question that we asked him! He was so kind, friendly and patient with our group. He is passionate about his heritage and we loved all of the history and stories he told us. I would hire him again and refer him to anyone looking for a private tour. One of my favorite trips!
Amazing and very comfortable to work with
Percy was extremely helpful in booking our tours and extremely responsive! Our tour guide Abraham was a delight to be around! He made sure my family was well taken care of (went out of his way to buy oxygen tanks for my group and making random stops to fit the needs of my group). Both were responsive in WhatsApp in minutes which is impressive! Percy in particular I had the pleasure of speaking on the phone with him multiple times and him reassuring that the tours were sufficient for my group with varying abilities. I would highly recommend working with both of them in the future.
Most Amazing Guided Tour EVER!
I very highly recommend this amazing tour company. We worked closely with Percy and customized a 4 day trip with the incredible Juan Carlos. We had the best time and felt like family since the very beginning of our time. Hats off to our fabulous driver as well.I have already told several friends that THIS is the tour company you want. I have hired many in different countries and this was the best experience. Fell in love with Peru, I'll be back.Thank you Percy, Juan Carlos and Team for making this the best trip ever! Kathy C
Best tour guides ever!
We had Edgar and Abraham as our drivers/guides on a full day tour of the Sacred Valley and they were phenomenal! They were already outside at 7am when we walked out. Both were friendly and held meaningful conversations along the way, in addition to Abraham explaining the historical significance of each site. We loved the unexpected, fun stops we made along the way. They even took us to the train station at the end of the tour and showed us how to get there from the plaza so that we could spend time exploring the area instead of waiting 2 hours at the train station. We highly recommend them!
A great service provider
Excellent trip arrangements by Hugo to for airport transfer, and visit to Humantay lake and rainbow mountain. He took extra effort to arrange us to get visa in Bolivia consulate in Cusco and bought us SIM card in advanced which is so useful. The tour guide, Smith is also a very nice person and we enjoyed the trip very much even though it was tiring. Thumbs up to Cusco Local Friends !
Cusco to Ollantaytambo made pain-free
Used this service to go from Cusco Airport to Ollantaytambo and then Ollantaytambo to Cusco city. Can't say enough good things about how easy it was to book service with them and I highly recommend using a private taxi vs a bus. I was forced to use a taxi due to the bimodal service via PeruRail having issues with a bus driver strike. This meant that the bus from Cusco to Ollantaytambo was canceled. Cusco Local Friend emailed me within minutes of requesting taxi service and charged $35 USD which was such a good deal that I used them to return to Cusco even though the bus driver strike was over. Drivers Daniel and Rafael were safe and efficient on the roads. Recommend that you speak a little bit of Spanish but not necessary.
7 day Journey through Cusco, sacred valley, macchu Picchu, rainbow mountain
We planed a honeymoon 7 day adventure with local Cusco friends and my wife and I had a 5 star experience. First off the communication between Hugo and Percy were amazing in helping plan this once in a lifetime experience. A lot goes into planning a Trip to Peru including admission tickets, transportation, train tickets etc and everything was orchestrated flawlessly. Ferdinand was out tour guide and he went above and beyond in teaching us about the Incan/ preincan/ modern culture. As well as show us many local spots. Alex was our driver and he was extremely professional and was prompt at making our itinerary move smoothly. I can honestly say that by the end of the trip we were sad to leave Alex and Ferdinand as we have all become good friends. I have already referred this company to two couples that are visiting in the next few months. Go ahead and book with this company you won’t regret it.
I had a terrific experience with Cusco Local Friend and wouldn’t hesitate to tell any of my friends to use them. I started working with them back in 2019 to plan my dream trip to Machu Picchu. My private tour all arranged with Cusco Local Friend included hiking the short Inca Trail, a day visit at MP with an additional hike up Huayna Picchu, another day around Aguas Calientes, and then the Belmond Hiram Bingham train back to Cusco.
My trip was originally scheduled for April 2020, and the world shut down. I worked with Cusco Local Friend (Percy) to postpone my trip until further notice, and they did not hesitate to make that accommodation on our arrangements. Then, a year later, I finally rescheduled the trip for September of 2021, but the Delta variant was high and Huayna Picchu was still not open, so I decided to postpone indefinitely again. Again, no issues with this from our Cusco Local Friends! I FINALLY was able to get the trip successfully completed at the beginning of June this year.
When we arrived in Cusco, Hugo and a driver were there waiting for us. We went into town for coffee and talk about the details of our planned MP experience. Afterwards, the driver took us to our hotel in the Sacred Valley where we were staying to acclimate for 4 days prior to our trek.
On the morning of our trek, we were greeted by our guide, Juan Carlos and guide in training at the time, Smick. We had an incredible day! The trek was hard, but Juan Carlos kept us on pace and even brought some wine for us to have during lunch, which was a fabulous touch. Note: It was raining most of our trek, so a nice glass of red wine warmed up, and prepared us for the final push, along with our coco leaves, of course. The next day when we toured MP and climbed Huayna Picchu, we had both Smick and Juan Carlos along for the ride. They took amazing pictures for us and answered all our questions.
The following day, we had not planned anything, but to relax, but Hugo at Cusco Local Friend said that Smick could hang out with us that day and take us to the butterfly place and do a hike to a waterfall that was close to town. Since Smick was in training and needed the experience, they just threw that time in for us! So generous! We had a great day with Smick! When we finished up our day, Smick got us to the train station, and we said our farewells.
Back in Cusco, we planned to see Hugo again and give him our feedback on our trip. He came and met us at our hotel and even brought us a little gift. He also arranged for a transport to the airport for us in a couple days, no extra charge.
I had an excellent experience with Cusco Local Friend! They are all LOCALS to Cusco and the Sacred Valley, and that is always what is important to me when deciding on what tour company to use. Plus, the communication and number of times we had to change plans, was all smooth and easy. We learned so much on our MP trek, and it will be an adventure that I will never forget.
Thank you, Cusco Local Friend!
Yes - They are locals and they are friends!
I had a terrific experience with Cusco Local Friend and wouldn’t hesitate to tell any of my friends to use them. I started working with them back in 2019 to plan my dream trip to Machu Picchu. My private tour all arranged with Cusco Local Friend included hiking the short Inca Trail, a day visit at MP with an additional hike up Huayna Picchu, another day around Aguas Calientes, and then the Belmond Hiram Bingham train back to Cusco. My trip was originally scheduled for April 2020, and the world shut down. I worked with Cusco Local Friend to postpone my trip until further notice, and they did not hesitate to make that accommodation on our arrangements. Then, a year later, I finally rescheduled the trip for September of 2021, but the Delta variant was high and Huayna Picchu was still not open, so I decided to postpone indefinitely again. Again, no issues with this from our Cusco Local Friends! I FINALLY was able to get the trip successfully completed at the beginning of June this year.When we arrived in Cusco, Hugo and a driver were there waiting for us. We went into town for coffee and talk about the details of our planned MP experience. Afterwards, the driver took us to our hotel in the Sacred Valley where we were staying to acclimate for 4 days prior to our trek. On the morning of our trek, we were greeted by our guide, Juan Carlos and a guide in training at the time, Smick. We had an incredible day! The trek was hard, but Juan Carlos kept us on pace and even brought some wine for us to have during lunch, which was a fabulous touch. Note: It was raining most of our trek, so a nice glass of red wine warmed up, and prepared us for the final push, along with our coco leaves, of course. The next day when we toured MP and climbed Huayna Picchu, we had both Smick and Juan Carlos along for the ride. They took amazing pictures for us and answered all our questions. The following day, we had not planned anything, but to relax, but Hugo at Cusco Local Friend said that Smick could hang out with us that day and take us to the butterfly place and do a hike to a waterfall that was close to town. Since Smick was in training and needed the experience, they just threw that time in for us! So generous! We had a great day with Smick! When we finished up our day, Smick got us to the train station, and we said our farewells.Back in Cusco, we planned to see Hugo again and give him our feedback on our trip. He came and met us at our hotel and even brought us a little gift. He also arranged for a transport to the airport for us in a couple days, no extra charge. I had an excellent experience with Cusco Local Friend! They are all LOCALS to Cusco and the Sacred Valley, and that is always what is important to me when deciding on what tour company to use. Plus, the communication and number of times we had to change plans, was all smooth and easy. We learned so much on our MP trek, and it will be an adventure that I will never forget. Thank you, Cusco Local Friend!
We Loved Rumi For Helping Our Different Abilities
Wonderful experience. My family and I loved Rumi our guide. Unfortunately for Rumi, we got confused about when and where we were supposed to meet Rumi, but he did really well tracking us down in no time even though we were like herding cats. The confusion was our fault not his. On the tour Rumi was wonderful. He had brought a binder full of pictures and references to show us Machu Picchu at different times in history and different references about the area. He was also very sensitive to my family members that had ability differences. He even held my mother-in-laws hands while she walked up and down the more precarious areas of Machu Picchu. Be aware that this isn't an easy hike. My father-in-law had a knee replacement a year prior to our trip and he struggled with the ups and downs and the length of the hike. If you are determined, like he is, you can do it but just be aware its not like an American National Park with rails and flattened walk ways. It was 100% worth it for all of us though. Thank you Rumi and Cusco Local Friend.
Perfectly organised, great and knowledgeable guide. Unforgettable experience!
From start to finish our tour was perfectly organised. During the planning of this trip Percy was our contact person. He replied quickly, proposed ideas and he felt really engaging en determined to create the best experience in and around Cusco for us. During our stay Abraham was our guide and we had a variety of drivers. Abraham was super knowledgeable and found the perfect balance between explaining but not overloading us with knowledge. All of the drivers were super punctual and drove us around very comfortable. We had some challenges as there was a strike in the region that we visited however we never noticed a thing about it. Percy contacted us in advance and was super flexible in changing our itinerary. When the train back from Aquas Calientes was fully booked due to the strike Percy upgraded us to make sure that we didn’t have to change our itinerary. If you are to plan your trip to Cusco make sure to use Cusco Local Friend as they will make sure that you will get an unforgettable journey.
Remarkable World Wonder
From the pre-booking, to booking, to post-booking, the information given and provided is spot on.Our tour guide was extremely knowledgable, gave an in-depth insight into the area and provided "theorized" answers to questions asked.Would rebook hands down without hesitation! September was a great month. Cool weather, slight rain encountered, which made the experience even better as the climate shifting throughout the day could be easily felt.
Sacred valley tour
Our guide Abraham was very knowledgeable, friendly and flexible allowing stops for photos. Edgar our driver had the van so clean and windows clear for taking pictures. He cleaned windows after each stop. We were a small group but had a wonderful experience. Would highly recommend these fine men. We did the Sacred VALLEY. Thank you so much. PAUL AND BARBARA BURLEIGH, CANADA
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