The City Tour Cartagena gives you a good all-round introduction to Cartagena. From the comfort of your air-conditioned transport, you will go to all the major tourist attractions in Cartagena. Along the way, your guide will provide you with context and stories to help you understand the significance of the attractions you visit.
About the activity
Experience
Highlights
- La Popa Monastery
- San Felipe de Barajas Fort
- Manga Neighborhood
- Getsemani Neighborhood
- Bocagrande Bay
- San Diego Neighborhood
- Old Historic Center
- City Wall
- Churches in the old city
- Slave, Colonial, Military, and Independency History
- Colombia & Caribbean Facts
- Taylor-made Cartagena City Tour
Full description
Through this comprehensive guided tour, you will visit the Popa Monastery on the mountaintop. From here you will have a spectacular view over Cartagena and the bay.
At the San Felipe de Barajas fortress, your guide will show you all the important areas while giving you the historical context of architecture and battles fought.
You will get a tour of the walled city of the old center, as well as the Manga, Getsemani, and Bocagrande neighborhood with an introduction to all major attractions along the way.
Includes
- Professional licensed guide
- Skip-the-line access
Covid-19 precautions
Safety measures in place
All areas that customers touch are frequently cleaned
Traveler requirements
You are required to bring and wear a mask
Prepare for the activity
The details below may change if you update your current selection:
Meeting point
Hotel
Start time of the tour
9:00 a.m. *
Length of the tour
4 hours (approximately)
Return Details
return to the original departure point
Notes
La Popa is currently open to the public.
This is perfect for cruise ship passengers.
Later departures are also available, depending on the time of year and current availability. If you are interested in booking this tour for a later time, simply contact us once your booking is confirmed, and we will do everything possible to accommodate you.
We own all types of transportation contact us if you have a group coming to town.
Rod_D124 –
“We had the good fortune to arrange a private tour with Martin during a recent cruise ship visit to beautiful Cartagena. Everything about the tour was excellent from timely pick up and drop off, excellent driving skills in a perfectly clean late model a/c vehicle, detailed knowledge of the area, and little extras like timing our tour such that we ended up at a cafe on the city wall at sunset for a relaxing drink soaking up the charming Cartagena atmosphere.
Following the tour, Martin arranged for a driver to takes us to a wonderful restaurant, who waited for us while we had dinner. He then had a horse drawn carriage waiting for us for a romantic ride.
All in all a spectacular day with fond memories of this beautiful city. Thank you Martin for taking such good care of us!”
OceanLove4 –
“Martin is awesome, you won’t find a better tour guide in Cartagena. I found him through another family blogger who travels with their kids just like we do, and then referred my friend to him who used him two weeks before we did. She loved him as well!
There are many tours in Cartagena, that will drive you through the city on crowded, hot open air buses with about 50 other people. Not my idea of fun! Martin is private, and will pick you up in his private, air conditioned van. We had our 5 year old with us, and would say the tour is super kid friendly. After visiting a few of the sites, we changed things up a bit and headed to the walled city, which is what we really wanted to explore in the first place. Martin is very accommodating and even dropped us off at an awesome restaurant at the end of our tour for dinner. I highly recommend using him, you won’t be disappointed!”
SergioS –
“La semana pasada estuve en cartagena y tomamos el city tour. Realmente martin es un gran conocedor de la ciudad, da explicaciones amplias que nos permitieron aprender y conocer más sobre Cartagena. Hicimos el tour en 4 horas , un poco más, sin ir en carreras que es siempre una preocupación con los tour.
Definitivamente, este tour lo recomendaría con total seguridad. Solamente le haría una observación: seria bueno que lo lleven a las bóvedas y no sólo pasar frente a ellas. Siempre es interesante ir a los mercados de artesanía”
nonajones –
Excellent tour of Cartagena off the Holland America Zuiderdam. Only had 4 hours. Martin gave us an excellent tour of the city. We were a group of 3 in his limo which worked perfect because of the tremendous traffic congestion in the city. He gave us a running history of his city, knew all the little tidbits, how to avoid traffic jams and keep us on schedule. This was the best tour of our cruise. Thank You Martin and Cartagena Tour Guides. You all are awesome.
jthefs –
Martin te hace un recorrido por los principales sitios historicos y culturales de Cartagena que tiene una riquisima historia . Este viaje viaje por el pasado y presente de Cartagena te permite en medio día tener un panorama excelente de esta hermosa ciudad.