Testimonios de Viajeros

Disclaimer: I am absolutely not the targeted demography for this tour. What follows is a eurocentric opinion.

I’ve made the experience that Spanish-speaking tours in South America are like this one: a guide reproducing solid information akin to listening to a radio while getting walked through the places of interest. Most tourists will touch everything, ask questions whose answers have already been given and take a ton of pictures, mostly of themselves. If this is your jam, read no further, this is a tour tailored for you.

Let me stress Spanish-speaking, since English-speaking tours often differ quite a bit (but are often larger in group sizes and are slowed down by frail, older generations).

What you don’t get here: a guide that interacts with you, atunes to the group and individuals’ dynamics, creates a genuine room for questions and conversations, offers information that is more layered than what you can read online, look through the curtain of well-polished criollo narratives.

What you won’t get either is a critical view on the horrors of colonization. It’s worse – there is a subtle but constant glorification of the cultural genocide committed by the Catholic Church. It’s heart-breaking how normalized it is even for people with indigenous ancestry like our guide to endorse centuries of systematic uprooting and religious gaslighting.

We did the 4 day/3 night tour. Outstanding tour. Ronaldo was our tour guide and made our experience fantastic! He and the porter crew are patient, accomodating, knowledgeable. My family and I highly recommend this outfit and especially Ronaldo as a guide. Looking forward to trying a longer trek.

It was a pretty good tour the guide Christian was very attentive and careful the road was long but worth all the effort

Excellent service and service. They were always vigilant and provided me with quality care. Excellent Guide in the Sanctuary too, highly recommend them. Thanks for everything.

Excellent service, everything according to plan, very good advice for a trip scheduled with such short notice, very fluid communication and the agency is highly recommended, the Hiram Bingham train was the best, the Inkaterra hotel was spectacular and Machu Pichu was amazing. best that my eyes have ever seen. Good guides and Lilia great attention! I recommend it

I was a little hesitant booking this because I wasn’t sure it was a real tour company. After checking a few sites and with a tour guide, I felt better about sending the money. The interactions I had with the company via WhatsApp was handled quickly and politely.
When the day came for the trip, we were picked up in a private vehicle on time and driven to the train station. We were quite early but the Hiram Bingham employees were very attentive with champagne, coffee or tea. There is a fun interactive performance before you are escorted on to the train and also lots of time for photos.
The train ride itself was wonderful. The band was great and played all kinds of music. The drinks and appetizers were delicious as was the main meal. They will change anything on the menu for you. The staff and service was impeccable. Once in Aguas Calientes we were never without a guide. No line ups for the bus to Machu Picchu as we were on a private bus. No charge for the toilets as its all covered. Circuit 1 and 2 at Machu Picchu were great. When we were finished the circuit we went into The Sanctuary Lodge hotel at Machu Picchu entrance for afternoon tea. It truly was lovely. After a nice rest we boarded the private bus back down to the train station, headed into the private VIP lounge and waited for the train. The return trip was just as good as the first leg. We were again, taken by private transfer back to our hotel. The day was flawless. We were so glad to have found Machu Picchu Andes Tours. This day was the highlight of our Peru trip.

Spectacular service, everything coordinated, transfers, ticket, guide, absolutely everything, always in contact via WhatsApp, 100% recommended

The agency was super attentive to the entire tour, accompanying me throughout the process, super responsible, the times, the guide and organization 10/10 recommended as the best to take any tour in Cusco. I would always hire their services again.

The activity is great. Personally, the Inca trail to Macu Picchu is a MUST that you must do! And if you do it with the guide Jose Antonio, much better! He is an excellent guide who is worrying about you at all times, making sure you are enjoying it, that you take the best photos home, explaining the Quechua culture in detail to immerse you in a wonderful world.
Wonderful experience and highly recommended!

We were originally booked to complete the 5 day Inca trail, however due to extremely bad altitude sickness we asked AB Expeditions if they could come up with options that would allow us to complete a short hike and still arrive and visit Machu Picchu. We were very impressed with AB,s ability to come up with a new program that fulfilled our wishes.
Our guide Geo, was fantastic and his knowledge of the trail, its history, wildlife and fauna was outstanding.
Unfortunately whilst we were there the local population and tour operators were taking industrial actions which shut down the rail link into and out of Aquas Calientes, and they also stopped the buses from taking tourists up to Machu Picchu which meant that a large number of tourists were stranded. AB expeditions were great at coming up with an alternate plan to get all AB expeditions’ clients out of Aquas Calientes and back to Cusco.
Overall we were very impressed with AB Expeditions as a company and all of their staff were top rate.

We would recommend using AB Expeditions for your trekking needs.

Before we were in Peru, they had already contacted our group to verify everything and have everything ready. Transportation was from the hotel to the train station. From arriving at the station, the attention of all the staff was a movie experience! Being my second time to Machu Picchu, this experience is truly a luxury. From the service, the attention, THE FOOD, the music and all the drinks possible! We loved it . Everyone should do this great at least once in their life!!

We did the one day trek to Machu Picchu from km 104 on the railway up to the Sun gate and then down into Machu Picchu. It’s a great way to experience part of the Inka trail without having to camp. The trail up from the railway is quite arduous but has a couple of Inka ruins on the way. We arrived at the Sun gate around 1.30pm then into Machu Picchu by 2pm. We then spent a couple of hours visiting the ruins before taking the bus down to Aguas Caliente. Our guide was Jose Antonio who was fantastic and provided useful information all the way through the trek and tour. If we did the trek again we would book an earlier train back to our hotel rather than have dinner in Aquas Caliente which is a bit of a tourist trap. Otherwise it was a perfect day which combines a fantastic trek with a visit to Machu Picchu- which absolutely deserves its reputation.