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.
Josefina –
My husband and I visited Cartagena in May. Martin was an excellent, professional guide. His knowledge is vast and he was very accommodating of any requests we had. Our stay in Cartagena was made so much more complete by having had Martin as our guide. I highly recommend him for anyone that goes to Cartagena and that wants a complete perspective of the historical importance of this wonderful city!
melonga –
“El día de hoy tuvimos el placer de tomar un tour en la ciudad de Cartagena de Indias con Cartagena Tour Guides y fue de lo mejor.
Martin Rosales nos recibió en el puerto de cruceros e iniciamos nuestro tour en un auto privado. El conductor era de igual
Manera un señor muy atento y respetuoso. Pudimos, en menos de 6 horas ver lo mejor de Cartagena. Martin es un experto en todo lo relacionado con la historia de la ciudad asi que nos explicó todo con detalle.
Además de ser un gran conocedor de la ciudad, es también un gran conversador, así que el tiempo pasa volando gracias a su amena conversación.
Recomiendo ampliamente los servicios de Martin. Nos llevamos buenos recuerdos de la visita.”
Pat Kay –
“Great Tour around and througt the beautiful Old City of Cartagena, with one of the greatest Guides Captain Kirk! Very good explainations about tue City and visit of some special places away from the „Touri Spots“.
Everytime again with this Guide! Thx Kirk”
uitvlugt1 –
We eturned this past November and did a tour again with Martin. It was a very very nice day spent with Martin and his driver. We were not rushed in any way . we avoided the crowds and had a very nice day touring with Martin. As we will be returning again this November 2019 I will once again reserve our day with Martin. I highly recommend Martin.
tmt57 –
First, I must praise Martin Rosales on how quickly he responded to my frantic email trying to arrange a private tour in a vehicle that could hold a walker and 2 people only 4 days before we needed the tour. And Martin came through with a wonderful tour guide JZ and our driver Oscar. We started our day at the beautiful La Popa monastery. The view from the top overlooking Cartagena was stunning. JZ made sure we saw as much of historic Cartagena as we could while Oscar made sure we got there safely as well as taking David’s walker in and out of the car. By the end of our day long tour, we had soaked in so much beauty, but more importantly we made two new friends in our guide and driver! We expect to keep in touch. We highly recommend this company for anyone visiting Cartagena. They are so flexible and will arrange the tour you’d like to have. Their guides and drivers are well trained and quite personable.(even though Oscar spoke very little English and we speak no Spanish, Oscar found a way to communicate wonderfully with us even when JZ wasn’t there!) These guide and drivers “know their stuff” and they will make sure that you have a great day in Cartagena-they were both focused totally on making sure we had a good time. Definitely a 5 star day!