Chan picked us up with a driver and more than fulfilled our expectations for the day. We saw many sights in the city, took us to a gem store because we wanted to shop, and even brought us to the home of a local family who were kind enough to invite us in to see how they live. We highly recommend him! Irene Kantor

Everything what I wanted to see i did. Fishermen, fort Galle and quick tour around Colombo. Nice and smoothly. Chan is knowledgeable and pleasant.

I would definitely give 5 stars for my tour in Colombo Sri Lanka. Chananda treated us like good friends who were visiting his country. He was so knowledgeable, so kind and so helpful. I have taken many tours as I have travelled around the world and this tour was one of the best. Chananada made me see and understand his country and Iook forward to returning.

Chandana was a very good guide. He has profound knowledge of Colombo, is helpful and adjusted the tour to our needs. For example, he took us to to see the house of a family in Colombo, as we had requested the tour to be focused on local customs. On time of the tour, pick up and drop of location he was very flexible.

Chan is a knowledgeable and very sincere guide.He treats us like a family and ensure we get the best experience out of what we are paying. The places we visited are great in itself and Chan had work to make sure that the trip pleasant and smooth throughout. Thank you once again!

Words would be poor to express our gratitude and respect for Chand.He wasnt an ordinary travel guide.He was an "open encyclopedia".His knowledge of the country's history, culture,with thorough insight and soul.An excellent person, noble, accurate, available for anything we needed, on call, with an open soul and an open spirit.The success of our trip to Sri Lanka is largely based to his presence. Always smiling, humorous, taking care of us.Our driver Suranga, very experienced, supporting and careful.

Excellent guide and an excellent tour! Very knowledgeable and a fun person. We saw a great deal of Colombo and environs. We had 10 people on this tour. Driver and guide were on time and had a new van which was very comfortable for this full day tour. Great value for the money.Highly recommended.

This was a lovely tour. Chanda is very knowledgeable and passionate about the tour highlights and his country. Chanda made this my tour based upon my feedback of what I wanted to see. He took his time and answered a million questions. As for the driver, I can't say enough!!! He is fabulous. I highly recommend this tour to anyone. This is more than a tour but also a history and cultural experience.

Disappointing tour guide and itinerary. The itinerary may have been a communications problem. Chandana was not our guide. He may have been ok.

I had never experienced a tour with Tours by Locals; I must say tour guide was excellent, very knowledgeable and informative. I will use this tour service again. Thanks you much……

Chandana was quite good, but not "excellent," which I consider near perfect. He explained a lot of what we saw and about the culture, but he didn't go into the detail a truly excellent guide would. He bought us pineapple and other fruit. The restaurant stops were excellent but took too long. We ran out of time and didn't see everything we were supposed to. Stop at gem factory was a rip off. Would have preferred to go to botanical garden. Stop trying to sell us stuff.

What a wonderful holiday I had with Chandana - in every respect it exceeded my expectations and I would recommend Chandana to anyone wishing to have a great holiday in Sri Lanka. Nothing was a problem to Chandana and he was very flexible to my sightseeing wishes. He was also very helpful with the planning stage of my 12 day tour.

Chandana had a personal emergency on the day of our tour, but came to the port to meet us at 7am and make sure our plans were in order with his associate. He helped arrange a meeting for us with one of our friends. He is very kind and his English is very good. Thank you, Chandana

Chandanda was VERY accommodating and flexible during the tour, especially to our children (ages 8, 6, 4, and 18 months). He has extensive knowledge of the areas we visited, which included Udawalawe National Park, Nuwaraeliya, Kandy, and Pinnawela. He even went "the extra mile" and organized a special (and unexpected) day for the children which consisted of a train ride, playing/snorkeling at Matara beach, a visit to a "snake house", fishing with bamboo rods, and a meal in his home village. He's great!

Chandana was unable to take us on the tour due to an unexpected personal last minute commitment. He arranged for Prabath to be our guide. Prabath was friendly and very knowledgeable and proved to be an excellent guide. Sri Lanka was the "surprise" port for us on our cruise and surpassed all of our expectations. Thank you Chandana for your great communication and we all enjoyed the special goodies at the end of the tour.

Now this guy was fantastic. Chan T communicated a lot with us well in advance of our ship getting to Colombo and met us at the cruise port with his driver and a Toyota Hiace with plenty of room for the six of us. He had lots of material prepared about our sites and things we could expect. When there was extra time in the day, he filled the time with information and cultural history. Chan was a wonderful tour operator, friendly, and easy for us to work with him. Would definitely use again!

What can I say?Chandana managed to give us the best honeymoon we could have never imagined thanks to his understanding of what we wanted exactly.He is such a nice man and his English is also excellent.He made sure that the tour he was making was specifically what we wanted and not only managed to reach our expectations but also more.We managed to see both touristic places,magnificent scenery,meet locals,interact with locals and even cook with them.It was amazing and we will surely be back.Thanks Chandana

Excellent tour for and anyone on a cruise. We were picked up and dropped back to the port and were treated as VIP's

Chandana was a superlative guide and representative of his country. He was gracious as well as very informative of the flora and fauna of Sri Lanka. He shared with us life in Sri Lanka and took very good care of us and provided any assistance that we needed. He had a spotless and comfortable van with a very capable driver. He guided our shopping endeavors.I highly recommend him to all travellers visiting Sri Lanka. Gail Frazier

Chan is very proud of his country and rightly so! We were transport in comfort to many places of interest and we were very enriched by the information Chan provided. The Vehicle weas very comfortable. We will return to Sri Lanka to enjoy further the special places of Colombo and other places in Sri Lanka. Thanks Chan