"Pay-per-hour" — Experience all what interests you at your own pace, shown by a savvy local friend
- When: Available 10:00pm (or ask!) daily, 365 days/year, rain or shine
- Duration: 3 to 12 hours: With a minimum of 3 hours, you can extend this tour adding any number of hours... subject to your guide's availability. It is a good idea to contact us with your request in advance before booking.
- Price: USD $110 p/p all tax included. A minimum of 2 people is required (or ask!). Additional hours at $25 per person and hour. Ask about single person and large group pricing.
- Discounts: Discounts for Couples and Groups
- Meet: Hotel pickup is available at downtown hotels for a small additional fee (USD $20) 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. Also, you can get printable, bilingual 'show-the-taxi-driver' directions here, or see our map here.
- Note: Walking tours in english. Each includes over 40 main city landmarks, one or two open green spaces and some off-the-beaten-track portions of the city. This is not a strenuous walk, but we will be walking quite a bit, so bring comfortable shoes. At some point in our walk we'll stop for coffee or pop (and bathrooms) at some emblematic cafe of historical value. Snacks, drinks, hotel pickup, transportation, foot massage, mid-life-counseling, good sense of humour and gratuities are not included. Listed below, you will find some ot the landmarks we will walk by:
Tour Outline (abbreviated):
OPTION 1:
"Retiro - Recoleta - Palermo" walk:
Elegant Plaza San Martin (initial bastion, bullfight ring and slave market), Paz Palace (amazing belle-epoque mansion in BA) + San Martin's Monument (here we explain how Argenina was born) + Kavanagh Building (architecture in BA explained) + Santísimo Sacramento Church (unusual and amazing church, explained) + British Clock Tower (here we explain past & present unsuspected presence of England in Argentina) + Railroad Terminal Stations + Barrio Norte Neighbourhood (here we explain the strong influence of the French and Italian in Argentina) + Mihanovich & Strugamou Buildings + Arroyo Street and its Art Galleries + Elegant Alvear St. & Palaces (here we explain the impact of catholicism, judaism and immigration in Argentina ) + Nuestra Senora del Pilar Church + Recoleta Neighbourhood. + The amazing Recoleta Cemetery (explained with monuments and stories, including all about Evita Peron --she is buried here) + BA Exhibition Center + Palais de Glace (we explain the coming of age of Tango) + BA Design Center + Floralis Monument + National Gallery of Art + Peynot's Grand Monument (France's present to Argentina for its centennial celebration).
OPTION 2:
"Downtown - Plaza de Mayo - San Telmo - La Boca" walk:
Downtown + Monserrat: oldest neighbourhood + Cabildo (old City Hall) + BA's Cathedral and San Martin's Mausoleum (here we explain how Argentina became a nation) + National Bank + Government House (its history and architecture explained) + Monument to Manuel Belgrano (where the gallows used to be) + Ministry Buildings (shrapnel still attests to recent coups -explained) + The Obelisk (and the Walk of the Mothers of the dissapeared) + Bolivar St.: Manzana de las Luces ("Enlightment Square" -first center of wisdom and foundational site of our schooling system) + Oldest Shop, Oldest Church and Oldest house still preserved in the city + Defensa St. and Saint Domingo Convent (here we explain the early British presence in 1806 and 1807) + Viceroy Linier's House + Chile St (old city limit) & Minimal House + Massive Immigration and changes in the Architecture of BA + Entering picturesque San Telmo neighbourhood + Evita & the School of Engineering + Carlos Calvo Market + Plaza Dorrego Park + Belen Church & Martina Cespedes' cute story + Ezeiza's Little Convent ...and much more
OPTION 3:
"Buenos Aires Explored Your Own Way" walk:
Let us put together a tailored tour to to fit your specific interests.
Buenos Aires is many things and has as many peculiarities as you have interests: wine, sports, architecture, cultural venues, dance (including Tango, but also many other) and a myriad more aspects: let us show you to the ones that interest you most!
Note: If you have a few more hours to spare in BA, we recommend that you also do our “Buenos Aires Neighborhoods” tour. This is a unique walking tour that explores the hidden gems of Buenos Aires while visiting two different neighborhoods that you will not find in guidebooks. It includes uncommonly visited city landmarks that deviate from your typical tourist locations. Because we enter many of the buildings that we visit you will get an extra personal experience of each place that you don’t get with our 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 in “non touristic neighborhoods”.
With this tour combination you will be able to leave the city with the feeling that that you have fully experienced Buenos Aires.
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