All what's unmissable plus much "off-the-beaten-track"
- When: Start 10am, daily 365 days/year, rain or shine (Start earlier/later? Ask us!)
- Duration: approx. 6-7 hours (10am to 1pm, then a light-lunch intermission with your choice of lunch --cost not included-- at some typical local place (usually famous La Biela Café at Recoleta) and then we continue walking from 2pm to 5pm approx.)
- Price: Price for 2 people, $180 each. Click 'Book Now' for single-walker and small-groups. Contact us for large group pricing. NOTE: To add/include picturesque La Boca make sure you slelect that option on 'Book Now'!
- Discounts: Discounts available for large groups.
- Meet: Hotel pickup is available at downtown hotels for a small additional fee (USD $20) depending on availability, if you let us know with at least 24hs advance advise. Otherwise your guide will wait for you at the door, outside the 'Florida Garden' cafe, corner of 899 Florida St (with Paraguay St) on the main pedestrian street, downtown, holding a small 'BA-Walking-Tours' sign. Get printable, bilingual ('good-for-taxi' or asking) directions here, or see map here.
- Note: This is a fun & comprehensive walking tour in English. It was specifically designed by our guides for savvy travelers with little time or tight agendas. It includes over 75 main city landmarks and lots of stories and explanations as well as off-the-beaten-track portions of the Historical Downtown, Recoleta, Palermo, Barrio Norte and La Boca neighbourhoods (La Boca is only offered as optional depending on your guide's availability and not included in the BA-in-a-Day Walk).
This is the tour to get some insight into local life, to learn about our local food, to see what the locals do and to have an authentic local cultural experience”. With this tour combination you will be able to leave the city with the feeling that you have fully experienced Buenos Aires.
After this enjoyable Day Tour of Buenos Aires walk you will understand Buenos Aires (and Argentina!!) much better. It includes over 75 main city landmarks, and though it is not a strenuous walk, it is a long one: to see all these landmarks we do need to keep a quick pace--or cover a bit less: you decide. Full itinerary will be covered depending on time and circumstances at time of tour. We'll stop for coffee, snacks or refreshments along the walk, at emblematic cafes of cultural or historical value. Snacks, drinks, hotel pickup, transportation, foot massage, mid-life-counseling, good sense of humour and gratuities are not included (actually massage, counseling and good sense of humour are not even available!).
Some key sights:
- The interwoven history of Buenos Aires' main sites and landmarks:
- Florida & Plaza San Martin park area: the flamboyant areas that that gave us the denomination of 'The Paris of the South'. Magnificent buildings, palaces and stories.
- Famous Recoleta & Palermo neighbourhoods, where we visit and explain the world famous Recoleta Cemetery--including all about famous Evita Peron, Eugenia Cambaceres, Tiburcia Dominguez and much more.
- (Optional-not included) Stop for delicious Argentine lunch options at famous 'La Biela' cafe in elegant Recoleta.
- Historical downtown and Plaza de Mayo visit (Pope Francis Cathedral, Cabildo/City Hall, Presidential Casa Rosada Pink House, Puerto Madero, Path of the Mothers of the Dissappeared, etc.).
- San Telmo, the picturesque, earliest neighbourhood in BA: Old Slave Market, Defensa Street, oldest shops and buildings Plaza Dorrego Antiques market, Colonial churches, Vicerroy's House, etc.
- (Optional-not included) La Boca. Time permitting, and at an additional cost to be arranged before the walk (ask us), we can visit the famously colorful and picturesque port of 'La Boca', birthplace of Tango (where we might see it danced on the streets! — Please note that La Boca is only offered as optional depending on our guides' availability and is not included in the regular BA-in-a-Day Walk).
- (Optional-not included) Tango Night-out with dinner, show and lessons: Experience the beauty of Tango and witness how Argentines dance. Scores of people will get together to enjoy a great show, food, drinks and -if you feel like it- dance, learn to dance, or just watch. It is truly fun for all ages, and not all that difficult! Try it!
- ...and much, much more!!
Note: If you want to wrap-up your experience of all that is relevant to BA in just one day, you can also book our 'Tango Night Out' as well for that night, and relax enjoying a superb, typical Tango dinner-show.
