Labo B de Santiago 10:00 Hrs
Are you a wanderer with an inkling for excitement and enthusiasm for culture? This tour will fill your inner desires. This is not your average tour! A tour where you should expect the unexpected and discover what it is like to be a Santiago local.
Charge your camera and slap on some sunscreen, friends! A personal tour for life’s culture seekers.
To make sure everyone has a good experience on our tours, we aim to keep groups relatively small. In our experience, big groups traveling together have a higher than average no show rate, and can commandeer the tour and make other guests feel unwelcome. To be fair to all of our customers, we ask groups of over 8 to reserve a private tour or contact us on [email protected]
Why take THIS tour, and why with Tours4Tips? This is Santiago’s number 1 pay-what-you-like tour according to Tripadvisor! What could be better than to pay what you feel is fair? We like how Tripadvisor user Hector S put it that: “the idea of a free tour it’s really nice, you give what you want, obviously the experience of touring for free it’s amazing, walking on the city without a bus / speaker makes a different kind of tour”.
Our freelance Wally’s guides are selected on the basis of how much they love Santiago and have a passion to share it with you. We keep our tours up close and personal, ensuring never to have more than 22 travelers per Wally. Matjnewton describes his freelance Wally guide as being: “perfect balance of information and humor”.
Do you wish for an experience more unique and memorable than the other generic tours? Then jump on board and join us!
An offbeat walking tour where the only thing that will be to the beat is the sound of our feet. Together we discover Santiago’s fresh fruit, vegetables, fish (and everything in between) market. Our feet bounce off the tourist path and we will interact with true Chileans as they hustle over the capital city, tasting, smelling, bartering and bantering.
TOUR DETAILS
PRICE
Pay-What-You-Like
TIME
Departs at 10:00 Hrs Finishes at 13:00 Hrs
MEETING POINT
Start Location: Meet in front of Museo Bellas Artes Finish Location: At our Cementerio General Distance: 4km walking
TOUR ITINERARY
BELLAS ARTES MUSEUM 10:00 Hrs
Find your bilingual freelance Wally guide waiting for you outside the front entrance of Museo Bellas Artes (in line to the street side). Wally wears a white and red striped T-shirt (in Santiago this is easier to find than the fun kids books).
We spend a few minutes in Parque Forestal getting to know each other. You’ll also learn about the Museum itself, before heading off.
ESMERALDA NEIGHBORHOOD 10:30 Hrs
We will be walking through Esmeralda Neighborhood learning how the city’s heart beats. Then we wonder on to “La Chimba” (the other side) of the river. By now we will most likely have one of our lovely tour dogs as a companion.
TIRSO DE MOLINA AND LA VEGA 11:15 Hrs
Next, we follow our senses to the markets where your mouth will begin to water and your belly flutter with excitement. We start with Tirso de Molina, where we talk about the neighborhood and Santiago’s diversity. We then follow the rainbow of colors of Santiago’s famous market, La Vega. Here, you will discover fruits and vegetables that you have never even seen before. La Vega is a place that: “really only locals use and they sell amazing fresh food at cheap prices” says Tripadvisor user Ivan.
GENERAL CEMENTERY 12:00 Hrs
Nearby we’ll find Patronato. This is Santiago’s multicultural district, after leaning about the different cultures’ influence in the area, we’ll head towards our last stop.
We’ll get on the metro (don’t worry, if you’ve never been on, we’ll teach you!) and will go two stations towards ”Cementerios”. At the General cemetery you’ll learn stories, will get to know the structure of the cemetery and will have an introduction to what happened with the Military Coup.
Hit the Bar or have lunch? 13:00 Hrs
We finish off the tour in the afternoon and your freelance Wally will offer up his best advice and recommendations over a nice lunch. Feel free to ask any questions. Don’t forget this is a pay-what-you-feel tour, the enjoyment levels are on and the pressure level is off! A tour for tips also with tips, the best ones you can get of Santiago!
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