10:00 HRS Santiago Offbeat Walking FREE Tour
Are you a wanderer with an inkling for excitement and enthusiasm for culture? This free walking tour will fill your inner desires. This is not your average tour! This is an experience 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! Come and enjoy a personal tour for life’s culture seekers.
To make sure everyone has a good experience on our tours, we aim to keep groups small. In our experience, big groups can compromise the tour quality. To be fair to all of our customers, we ask groups of over 8 to reserve a private tour or contact us at our e-mail [email protected], besides that, when large groups are expected we aim to have enough staff to provide the best possible experience.
Why should you take this Free Walking Tour, and why with Tours4Tips? This is one of Santiago’s oldest Free Walking Tours, we have had thousands of happy people join our tours and love them! You can check their reviews on Google and Tripadvisor to see for yourself. What could be better than counting on passionate, experienced tour guides to walk you around a new destination?
Our freelance Wally guides are selected on the basis of how much they love Santiago and how well they can communicate their passion with travelers. We keep our tours up close and personal, ensuring not to have more than 20 travelers per Wally.
Do you wish for an experience that is more unique and memorable than other generic tours? Then jump on board and join us!
An offbeat free 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. We will bounce off the tourist path and interact with true Chileans as they hustle over the capital city, tasting, smelling, and filling our minds and hearts with the surrounding beauty. So come and learn about what we eat, what makes Chilean cuisine unique and of course get recommendations about the dishes you have to try while visiting our country. We promise you haven’t seen produce this big, fresh and beautiful in a while. You’ll be impressed!
TOUR DETAILS
PRICE
Pay-What-You-Like
TIME
Departs at 10:00 HRS Finishes at 13:00 HRS
MEETING POINT
Start Location: Museo de Bellas Artes, on José Miguel de La Barra St.
Finish Location: Cementerio General de Santiago, on Avenida Recoleta.
What to bring
Yourself, comfortable clothing and shoes, make sure to bring sunscreen as well! Cash for the Subway as well.
ROUTE MAP
TOUR ITINERARY
BELLAS ARTES MUSEUM 10:00 HRS
BELLAS ARTES MUSEUM 10:00 HRS
Find your Wally guide waiting for you outside the front entrance of Museo de Bellas Artes (on José Miguel de La Barra St). Wally wears a white and red striped T-shirt therefore making them quire easy to find!
We spend a few minutes in Parque Forestal getting to know each other. Once we are ready to leave Wally will tell you what we will do and see in this walking tour.
ESMERALDA NEIGHBORHOOD 10:30 HRS
ESMERALDA NEIGHBORHOOD 10:30 HRS
We will walk through Esmeralda Neighborhood to learn how the city’s heart beats. We will tell you about divisions in Santiago and how different cultures get along in the city. Then we wander on to “La Chimba” (Meaning “the other side”!) to explore one of the most diverse neighborhoods in the capital.
TIRSO DE MOLINA AND LA VEGA 11:15 HRS
TIRSO DE MOLINA AND LA VEGA 11:15 HRS
Next, we follow our path to the markets where you senses will be stimulated by its liveliness. Firstly, we start with Tirso de Molina, then transition between southern Santiago and the core of the district, where we’ll walk through alleys next to local vendors and customers to reach La Vega Central. Once there, many surprises await, and so, Wally will be excited to share all of their expertise on the market, its produce, its people, its pets and of course its secrets with you.
SUBWAY 11:50 HRS
After La Vega Central we’ll take the subway for a few stops to visit Santiago’s hidden gem, the General Cemetery. If you’ve yet to use Santiago’s public transportation, don’t worry! We will happily teach you how.
GENERAL CEMENTERY 12:00 HRS
GENERAL CEMENTERY 12:00 HRS
Next to Cementerios Station lays one of Santiago’s best hidden gems, The General Cemetery. We will walk this beautiful Necropolis born right after Chile´s independence in 1810 to learn about how Chileans relate to their beloved ones after their passing away, how they honor their memory and of course some interesting spooky stories. At the end we will share a short insight on politics by visiting Salvador Allende´s grave, socialist president in the seventies, who was overthrown in September 11th 1973.
Hit the Bar or have lunch? 13:00 HRS
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 for a nice lunch. Feel free to ask any questions. Lastly, don’t forget this is a pay-what-you-like 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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