Travel Review: 8 Day Peru Highlight Trip for Family with a Young Kid

We had a fabulous adventure visiting coastal Peru's pre Hispanic sites, and we highly recommend including a tour of this region in any visit to Peru. This Peru travel agency did a very nice job overall. David was very responsive and communicated frequently when we were trying to plan our itinerary. He seemed very knowledgeable about the area, and he was able to get information quickly to facilitate our planning. His pricing for our itinerary was not the highest nor the lowest, but he seemed to listen best to my requests and was much more responsive and accommodating than others on Zicasso. I felt like our trip was truly a customized itinerary, and we had a wonderful, mostly stress free trip due to David's good organization. They made the arrangements for us to visit all the sites I requested, and the local tour operators with whom they made the arrangements seemed well aware of our requests and itinerary with a couple of minor exceptions. When we left Trujillo and drove to Chiclayo, the guide from Trujillo traveled with us and helped clear up the problem with our afternoon tour of the Sican Museum -- a nice, professional touch that we very much appreciated. I really only have 2 minor complaints about the travel company. 1) David did not offer suggestions for other things to do in the areas we were visiting. They mostly only booked as I requested. During our drive from Trujillo to Chiclayo, we passed a sign for the site "el Brujo", and our guide said there wasn't much to see there. After we returned to the US, I read more about this site and learned it's one of the most important ceremonial sites in the area -- we would really have enjoyed touring that site! The one tour that the travel agency arranged that we hadn't requested was a city tour in Trujillo, and that tour was mildly interesting. However, I learned later, that region of Peru is famous for its Paso horses, which we would very much have enjoyed seeing perform. We also saw signs in the area for performances of local dancing that looked similar to Flamenco dancing. 2) We had made arrangements for a flight from Lima to Ica for a Nazca Lines tour. When the airline discontinued flights, and David had to change our trip to a LONG round trip drive, he didn't communicate the change in plans to us. Luckily I requested flight details and uncovered the change shortly before our trip, and we were able to cancel that portion of the itinerary. (As I had communicated to this Peru travel agency up front, we couldn't do a 1 day driving trip because it would entail too much car time for our 5 year old.) I would definitely contact David and this Peru travel agency for our next trip to Peru!