Cartagena Briefing: Coffee and Stroll with a Local Expert

Your personalized welcome to Cartagena

$137

Private

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Small group

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About the Tour

Private Tour: $ 137
Category: Orientation
Duration: 2 hours
Location: Cartagena

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Private welcome to Cartagena tour tailored to your specific questions
Practical sightseeing led by a resident
Your neighborhood

Tour Description

Whether you're planning to visit Colombia for the first time or are stopping into Cartagena for the day on a cruise, this Welcome to Cartagena orientation tour with a local insider is an ideal way to get your bearings and figure out how to organize your time. It also puts you in touch with a local who is knowledgeable and can help open up the city for you.

Colonial History and Colorful Caribbean Culture

We’ll begin our experience in your apartment or hotel lobby, where our docent will explain the layout of the city and the neighborhood where you are staying. We’ll provide advice on local customs, recommendations for dining, shopping, and insider events, and have a basic language lesson. We'll then open the floor to any specific questions, or if you have other walks booked with us, we will go over your itinerary, showing you how to get to your meeting points and give other tips for visiting other monuments and sites.

Welcome to Cartagena

We will then head outside for a stroll, allowing for us to discuss some of the city's Colonial history, along the way admiring some of its quaint streets and charming plazas. We may stop for some fresh juice, giving us the chance to talk about local tropical fruit or where to sample some of Cartagena's best Caribbean cuisine. We may also touch on some of the city's illustrious former residents like Gabriel Garcia Marquez, or discuss current life in the city and its neighboring communities—like the one explored on our in-depth Cartagena Barrio Tour.

Booking Instructions

Please supply your hotel name or exact apartment address (building entrance codes, apartment number, floor, etc) in the Notes box during checkout so that we can arrange for our docent to meet you directly at your lodging. In order to help us prepare the experience, please also share your interests and any specific questions about Cartagena. This will enable us to fully customize the experience to speak to your needs.

This experience is part of our Welcome To series, which aims to orient first-time visitors to Context cities by pairing them with local experts. We also offer many other Cartagena Walking Tours, including our Cartagena Old Town Tour and a Gabriel Garcia Marquez Cartagena Tour.

FAQ

I would like the docent to answer some very specific questions I have about the city. Can I let you know in advance what those questions are?
Please do let us know in advance if you have specific questions so that your docent can come prepared with answers to your questions.

Where You'll Start

Tour Experts

Claudia

Claudia was born and raised in Cartagena and, with the exception of a few years spent in Spain and Bogotá, has lived most of her life in her native city. She has an intense love for history and culture, both of which helped shape an MA in history from the University of Cartagena. Claudia taught Columbian and world history at the University Jorde Tadeo Lozano for 7 years. She is passionate about her hometown and loves sharing her in-depth knowledge of the area with travelers as she welcomes them to Cartagena.

Andres

Andres enjoyed his studies in history and sharing that knowledge with others to a point that he decided to make a career of it. While doubling as a marketing manager for Cartagena tourism, he has gained a multi-dimensional view of his native culture. His unending curiosity converts to passion as he learns and teaches about different cultures, food, and music -- or as he calls it, life.

2 Reviews – (4.6)

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We liked Andy a lot and he was very sincere and engaging. He took some time at the beginning to learn what we were looking to get out of the tour. My only quibble is that I would have liked him to give a bird's eye view of Cartagena's economics and politics in more detail.

Robert

Feb. 3, 2019

Claudia Vidal was knowledgable, engaging and very entertaining as well. Our overview of the city was just what we needed, and we enjoyed her company very much.

Margaret

Feb. 3, 2017

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