Your Questions About Oaxaca's Free Tours

Nothing is charged to join. Each walk here is free, pay what you want, with a spot held through the walk's own GuruWalk page. Meeting points are published in advance, including Cosijoeza 110A in the Centro, Plaza de la Cruz de Piedra in Xochimilco, ARIPO beside the fountain and the Iglesia de San Matías Jalatlaco, so nothing is left to work out on the day.

Every reservation is made on GuruWalk, where each independent guide publishes the walk; this site takes no bookings at all. All 10 free walking tours in this directory sit on GuruWalk, from Free Walking Tour Oaxaca by locals, rated 4.63 out of 5 across 1,165 GuruWalk reviews, down to the chocolate walk in Xochimilco. The price of every walk is free, pay what you want: no money changes hands when a place is held, and whatever a walker hands over afterwards is that walker's own decision. This site runs no tours, employs no guides and keeps no bookings. Its sole income is referral fees from GuruWalk when a reader follows a link, and that is the whole commercial relationship. No walk here carries any flag about possible extra costs on its GuruWalk page.

Because every walk runs on a pay what you want basis, a missed start leaves no upfront loss and no refund paperwork. Reservations sit entirely on GuruWalk, and so do any changes of date or withdrawals. This directory takes no payment, holds no places and operates none of the walks: it points readers to 10 free walking tours run by independent local guides, and everything after that happens on GuruWalk.

Joining any walk here costs nothing when you book and nothing when you arrive at the meeting point. Pay what you want is the model across all 10 free walking tours, so a guide's income comes only from whatever each walker decides to give at the end. No price tag appears on this site because none exists. No walk carries a note about possible added costs on its GuruWalk page either; the single cost fact that holds across the whole roster is that every walk is free, pay what you want. For anything beyond that, read the GuruWalk page for the walk in question, which is also where places are reserved.

Ratings on this page are copied straight from GuruWalk and printed with platform and scale attached. GuruWalk scores run from 1 to 5. Street Art Of Jalatlaco by Oaxaca by locals holds 4.91 out of 5 across 636 GuruWalk reviews. Xochimilco Start, Through Time shows 4.99 out of 5 across 496 GuruWalk reviews. No score is converted and none is mixed with another scale, because there is only one scale here.

No ticket is bought in advance and no charge waits at the start. All 10 free walking tours follow the same pattern: reserve a spot, join the guide, then decide for yourself what, if anything, to hand over at the end. That is the full arrangement, with no exception buried in any walk's terms. Places are reserved on GuruWalk, and any question about holding a spot or the day itself is answered on the GuruWalk page for the walk concerned. The tours belong to independent local guides in Oaxaca, not to this site, which runs nothing, guides nothing and takes no part in the money that changes hands.

GuruWalk lets walkers score a tour after they take it, on the same out of 5 scale for every walk on this site. Top Free Walking Tour of Oaxaca's Historic Center with a Professional Local Guide, run by Free Tour Europe, holds 4.9 out of 5 across 271 GuruWalk reviews. Oaxaca City Walking Tour: Markets, History and Art stands at 5 out of 5 across 28 GuruWalk reviews. Counts that small are printed in full rather than rounded away, since the size of the base behind a rating matters when walks are compared. Every score on this site carries its platform and its scale next to it.

The neighbourhood usually answers the question first. Centro Histórico And Santo Domingo walks gather at Cosijoeza 110A, Jardín El Pañuelito, the Teatro Macedonio Alcalá, the Museo de los Pintores Oaxaqueños and ARIPO, next to the fountain. Jalatlaco And The Street Murals walks begin at the Iglesia de San Matías Jalatlaco or at Cosijoeza 110A again. Xochimilco And The Markets walks set out from the Plaza de la Cruz de Piedra or from Café Kapel Nana and Eden MiniGalería. After the district, language and duration narrow the field, and both appear on each walk's GuruWalk page, with every walk lasting 2 hours or 2 hours 30 minutes.

Every walk here runs 2 hours or 2 hours 30 minutes, so none is a long commitment. The 2-hour walks include Free Walking Tour Oaxaca by locals, in English and Spanish, meeting at Cosijoeza 110A, and Street Art Of Jalatlaco, in English. Among the longer walks, Xochimilco Start, Through Time runs 2 hours 30 minutes in English and Spanish from the Plaza de la Cruz de Piedra in Xochimilco. A few walks run in English only, among them Street Art Of Jalatlaco and Oaxaca Free Walking Tour, History, Culture & Local Secrets. Language and duration details sit on each walk's own GuruWalk page, so check there before reserving a place.

Match a walk to the part of the city you want to explore on foot. The meeting point and the language narrow the field faster than the titles do. Oaxaca by locals runs Free Walking Tour Oaxaca by locals and Street Art Of Jalatlaco, and both meet at Cosijoeza 110A in the Centro; the first runs in English and Spanish, the second in English only. Around Oaxaca city starts at Plaza de la Cruz de Piedra in Xochimilco and runs 2 hours 30 minutes. Free Tour Europe departs from Jardín El Pañuelito, Estación from outside Museo de los Pintores Oaxaqueños, and Kactus from ARIPO, next to the fountain. Oaxaca Free Walking Tour meets at Teatro Macedonio Alcalá. The Xochimilco walks gather at Plaza de la Cruz de Piedra and at Café Kapel Nana and Eden MiniGalería. Every one of the 10 free walking tours is free to join, pay what you want, and reserved on the GuruWalk page for that walk.