Contact Us

An email to this address reaches the site directly, whether it is about a walk, a meeting point or what a place in the city charges at the door. One thing should be clear before anything else: this site operates none of the walks described on these pages. All 10 belong to independent local guides and are reserved on GuruWalk. For anything tied to a specific walk, that walk's GuruWalk page holds the detail, but a note sent here is always read.

A note from a reader catches what long hours of reading miss. Guides change meeting points, museums revise their entry rules, and a church that carried no admission charge one month may not the next. Nothing on pages like these stays fixed forever. If something you read here no longer matches what you found in the city, write a line or two and the page gets corrected.

• Anything unclear about the 10 free walking tours, from the meeting point to the languages a guide offers, can be checked against the details published on each GuruWalk page.
• Ideas for corners of the city these pages should add are welcome too, whether a square, a language or a type of free place that is missing here.
• A GuruWalk page link that no longer loads, or one that points to a walk which has been retired, and should be swapped for a working one.
• Notice that a guide has changed a gathering spot or retired a walk, so its page here can be set right.
• A rating, review total or duration shown on a walk page that no longer matches GuruWalk, along with the current figure, gets corrected.

Email info@freethingstodoinoaxaca.com

When You Email Us

An email that arrives here gets opened. Some messages need no reply and others do, and those that do receive one. One thing mail cannot handle is a reservation itself. Every walk described on this site is booked through GuruWalk, and the walker who made the booking is the only person who can change or cancel it, on the same page where it was made. Where email truly works is on the content itself: a meeting point listed in the wrong street, a walk whose length has changed, a line about a church or a market that has drifted out of date. Fixes of that kind are made plainly.

Once You Send It

None of the 10 free walking tours here is run by this site. Each belongs to an independent guide and is booked on GuruWalk, from the walks gathering at Cosijoeza 110A in the Centro Histórico to those starting at the Iglesia de San Matías Jalatlaco or the Plaza de la Cruz de Piedra in Xochimilco. Shifting a date or giving up a place has to be done where the reservation was made. An email to this site cannot reach a guide or alter a place on any walk.

Money questions do not belong in this inbox. The only price fact on this site is simple: every walk is free, pay what you want, reserved through GuruWalk, and no figure, tip amount or suggested sum is printed against any of them. What a walker chooses to hand a guide at the end of a walk is entirely between that walker and the guide. For anything to do with payment on the platform, GuruWalk's own site carries the guidance, and that is where such questions should be taken rather than here.

Problems during a walk itself are also beyond what this site can act on. A late start, a rushed stop or a question a guide brushes aside belongs on the walk's own GuruWalk page, where a review reaches both the guide and the walkers reading before they reserve. This directory plays no part in a departure, holds no contact with the guides and cannot intervene once a walk is under way. Where this site can help is its own subject matter: if a description here no longer matches what the GuruWalk page shows, or a meeting point reads wrongly, that message is welcome at the email address and will be read.

How the roles divide deserves a plain statement. Each of the walks described here belongs to an independent local guide who runs it on GuruWalk, and that guide alone controls the route, the pace and the telling. This site's part is narrower: it describes the walks, gives each meeting point as the walk's GuruWalk page states it and explains the terms of free entry at places such as the Zócalo and the central churches. Where any detail on these pages drifts from what the GuruWalk page shows, a message to the email address will be received and read.