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Cartagena Sightseeing Tour: Historic Center Excursion for Caribbean Cruise Passengers
4.3
9 Ratings
This excursion is tailor-made for individuals on a Caribbean cruise with a stopover in Cartagena. It allows you to maximize your stay in this mystically captivating metropolis.
Duration:
5 hours
Cancellation:
1 day
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Highlights
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Cerro de la Popa - From this site, you will continue to the highest point of Cartagena, El Cerro de la Popa. Here, you will get to know the Monastery of the Augustinian monks and enjoy the best view of the city
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Castillo de San Felipe de Barajas - Afterward, you will be driven to Castillo de San Felipe, a strong fort built on the top of a mountain by the Spaniards to gain control of the bay. There, you’ll have the opportunity to discover from the outside the impressive architecture and history behind this fort.
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Walled City of Cartagena - The Cartagena city tour continues with a nice walk through the Historic Center where you will visit Torre del Reloj at Plaza de la Aduana, the place used for slave trade during the Colonial period. Then you will go to San Pedro Claver Church, a historic Church that exhibits religious art and history. Lastly, you’ll visit Plaza de Bolivar surrounded by some of the city’s colonial buildings.
What's Included
- Explore the city’s key attractions.
- Multilingual expert guide.
- Included entry to all attractions.
- Private port transfers.
What's Not Included
- Optional tips and gratuities
- Unspecified food or beverage.
- Personal expenses
- Entry to Castillo de San Felipe
Additional Information
- We recommend you bring comfortable clothes and shoes as well as sunscreen and a hat or cap.
- MEETING POINT: Please walk until the meeting point (don’t take the shuttle bus, you will get lost). Look for a sign with your name on it. After you meet with the staff you will walk until the guide’s location (you will see a small zoo inside the port)
- Meeting point at the port: please read your confirmation voucher and if you have any questions or need additional information, email the operator to get a map.
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Customer Ratings
4.3
(9 Ratings)
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Debra_t
Jan 24, 2023
Loved walking down the... - Loved walking down the very colourful streets with the umbrellas and streamers. Beautiful. Our tour guide was very passionate about his home and knew the history extremely well.
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Joan_t
Dec 15, 2022
Perfect in every way! - Fernando is an excellent historian and the perfect guide of you actually want to learn the history of the city and country. We couldn’t have been happier with the tour, our driver, the car and the inherent beauty of Cartagena.
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Hermalindas2021
Dec 12, 2022
Cartagena Sightseeing Tour - Amazing tour, our tour guide Tavo made us want to go back to Cartegena.
He was very accommodating, my mother in law has to use a cane to walk and Tavo worked the tour around her. Tavo took us to the best coffee cafe San Alberto for coffee and carrot cake, the best. Thank you for an amazing day!
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Walterdhd
Feb 22, 2020
Personal touch in Cartagena - The guide and the driver were great. The guide showed us all we asked to see per the agreement, with ample time for pictures and questions. The guide kept us away from the street hawkers, when he could.
We would use this guide and driver again.
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Shar_m
Feb 27, 2018
Our guide, Billy, knew everyone... - <p>Our guide, Billy, knew everyone! And when we expressed disinterest in visting inside the fort, he immediately suggested something else!<br/>
Cartagena was a wonderful experience and having an experienced guide made all the difference. Traveling in a small group, we walked parts of the city and then our van would meet us.<br/>
Always love excursions with a small group.</p>
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Kimberly_j
Feb 5, 2018
By far, my favorite tour of our... - <p>By far, my favorite tour of our cruise. We were met at the end of the pier by someone who took us to our tour guide, Miguel. He has 50 years of tour guide experience and it shows! Made sure we had plenty of photo opportunities and was more than happy to change the tour to fit our needs as my husband and I were the only ones on the tour. He had many connections and we felt we saw so much more than any of the other tours we could have booked! We saw everything from the Castillo San Felipe to the opera house and loved every minute of it!</p>
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Amber
Mar 6, 2015
Great tour! Only wished they would... - <p>Great tour! Only wished they would have picked us up at the cruise port. Instead of across at the Texaco station. It was quite a walk to get there.</p>
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Ann
Dec 29, 2013
Our guide was difficult to find as... - <p>Our guide was difficult to find as the instructions said to meet him at the Texaco station which is outside of the port. We were approached by several other tours companies telling us it was unsafe to go outside the port area on our own. After talking to a sales clerk in the shop, she took us to the Texaco station. I would suggest your Viator representative should wait at the end of the dock where the ship docks to avoid any confusion. Once we met our tour and began the tour everything was wonderful. He was very informative and took us to places that weren't on our tour schedule. He is very good and I would rate him highly. He even parked his car and we walked thru the old section of Cartagena to look at architecture, parks, churches, shops, etc. My only complaint was trying to connect with him once we left the ship</p>
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Mightymike0091
Jan 6, 2023
Unable to take tour and evaluate - I walked back and forth from ship to pickup point for over an hour in the intense heat until I paid for a tour with someone else. I had the contacts picture and I don;t believe she was ever there. I complained upon return home. They offered to give me a 70% refund. A month later, no refund yet. Very cordial to me over the phone. Took this tour 5 years ago and it was good, but not great.
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