Published on Feb, 2025

I highly recommend this tour we off the beaten path to see a Lima community by the ocean the history, fish market and the fish nets being repair and new nets being made. The boat yard where you could see new boats being built. The owner has been doing this for 30 years plus. We met a chef that prepared lunch his home is beneath the restaurant. The owner also had prized rooster for cock fighting. This has been in the family for years. The views were incredible.

Published on Dec, 2024

Alfredo is a phenomenal tour guide. Showed us the behind the scenes Lima. From the fishing village to boat building to the best ceviche making! Incredible.

Published on Dec, 2024

Alfredo was so knowledgeable and we had a great time on the fishing boat, walking through the fish market, and seeing how boats are made and finally seeing our ceviche lunch being prepared! Great way to get off the beaten path & see how locals live. Alfredo was a great guide and took care of everything. Highly recommended!

Published on Sep, 2024

We were not sure what to expect but we had a fabulous experience seeing 'the other side of Lima' in the fishing town of Chorrillos with its seafood market and pier, where local fishermen sell their catch of the day and repair fishing nets and boats for their next adventure offshore. We also tried a delicious Pan con Pejerrey (silver side) in one of their little restaurants. Then we visited an amazing artisanal boat’s workshop - how they can work in very small spaces is hard to comprehend! We also we met the Casas family, a local family who are preserving traditions from the first Spanish Peruvian settlers, locally known as “Criollos” whose culture has blended for more than 2 centuries with the indigenous, African and Asian traditions to create the unique coastal culture of Peru. Following that we had a delicious traditional ceviche prepared by Julio, who showed us how to make it with local chili peppers like rocoto, yellow chili, and limo chili. Finally, we drove to the Morro Solar to see the statue of the Christ of the Pacific, the monument to the Soldiers, and the General Miguel Iglesias, and of course the amazing view of Chorrillos and Lima. This tour was full of traditions, fishing culture, history, ceviche and amazing views of Lima and its beautiful coast bathed by the Pacific Ocean. We returned to our hotel via the Barranca district and we appreciated Alfredo's flexibility because that was not on the itinerary. All in all, it was an extremely interesting and informative tour and very different from regular tours of Lima. We enjoyed it immensely.

Published on Jul, 2024

Wow, just wow. Our guide, Alfredo, was a fountain of local information, very friendly and helpful. For those timid about Spanish, he speaks English very fluently. And he arranges for locals to help with the tour experience so that they, too, are financially compensated and benefit from these kinds of things, which is a major plus to us when we do any tour activities. My husband and I were picked up at our hotel lobby, got in the car that Alfredo had arranged, and the driver took us first to the docks/beach at Chorillos, where we walked through the fish market, learned the history of the wall murals, and strolled out to the end of the pier. Then we took a short (25 min) boat ride around and down the coastline, weaving through the artisanal boats and the fisherman on the water. Our captain was very capable out there on the waves. Afterwards, we grabbed a quick bite at a local lunch spot there at the docks by the market. Super! Then, we got back in with Alfredo and our driver to head up into the neighborhood in Chorillos, where we learned a bit about the architecture history and met a famous local boat master crafter who has been trained by his father and makes these fishing boats by hand in a very meticulous process. Very interesting. Then we moved on to meet a local man who runs a little restaurant called Estación Vista Mar Chorillos. We watched him prepare ceviche for us, and WOWZERS. Ok, we are from New Orleans, so we know what good food tastes like. This was on par with any of the best restaurants we have back home. After eating, we took another trip driving up further sort of behind the neighborhood and up onto the cliff/hill where there is a huge statue of Christ and a wonderful view. There were other little things along the way that were great about this tour as well, but you really need to go and do it yourself. The money is well worth the experience, the food, and the knowledge gained. Thank you so much to our awesome tour guide!