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To be clear about how this works: the site you are reading is a guide, not a shop. It lists 10 free walking tours in Oaxaca, every one of them run by an independent local guide, and each reservation is made on GuruWalk, the platform where those walks live. No card number, deposit or booking form is ever submitted here, so almost no personal information can reach this domain at all. What little data a visit can generate is described below, along with a note on where your details really travel once you continue to a guide's page on GuruWalk.
What Reading These Pages Leaves Behind
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What A Page Load Records
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| Museum or monument | District or area | Normal admission or what stays paid | Free to everyone when |
|---|---|---|---|
| INAH Sunday Free Entry | citywide | Foreign tourists still pay 210 MXN (Category I) or 145 MXN (Category III). Free all year for under 13, and students and teachers with credentials. | Free on Sundays only for Mexican nationals and foreign residents of Mexico with ID (INE, residency card). Not for visitors from abroad. |
| Guelaguetza | centro | Sections A and B are ticketed and sold only through the official online channel (superboletos.com). Seat prices are set each year and are NOT printed on this site. | Auditorium Guelaguetza on Cerro del Fortín: sections C and D (upper) are free, first-come, unreserved. Sections A and B need a ticket. |
| Día de Muertos Cemeteries and Altars | citywide | Free every day | Public panteones (Xoxocotlán, Atzompa, San Felipe del Agua) and street altars are open without tickets, as families' own vigils. |
The Basics
- Logins, sign-up forms and personal questions appear nowhere on these pages. Anonymous reading is all the site needs, since it sells nothing directly and runs no reservations of its own.
- Each of the walks is free, pay what you want, and reserving a spot always happens through GuruWalk. That applies to a Centro Histórico walk and to a Jalatlaco murals walk alike, and anything you submit on GuruWalk falls under that platform's own privacy policy.
- The links leading out to the walks are affiliate links. Following one adds no cost for the reader, since joining a GuruWalk walk carries no set price, and any referral payment owed to this site would come from GuruWalk, not from the walker.
- Cookies can be blocked or cleared in any browser at any time, and every page here remains fully readable without them. Questions this page leaves unanswered can go to the email address in the footer.
Showing all 10 free walking tours
| Free walk | Category | Length | Language | Rating | Reviews | Guide |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Centro And Santo Domingo Route | Centro Histórico And Santo Domingo | 2 hours | English and Spanish | 4.63 / 5 | 1,165 | Oaxaca by locals |
| Street Art Of Jalatlaco | Jalatlaco And The Street Murals | 2 hours | English | 4.91 / 5 | 636 | Oaxaca by locals |
| Xochimilco Start, Through Time | Xochimilco And The Markets | 2 hours 30 minutes | English and Spanish | 4.99 / 5 | 496 | Around Oaxaca city |
| Professional Guide By Free Tour Europe | Centro Histórico And Santo Domingo | 2 hours | English and Spanish | 4.9 / 5 | 271 | Free Tour Europe |
| Essential History And Art Walk | Centro Histórico And Santo Domingo | 2 hours | English and Spanish | 4.63 / 5 | 190 | Estación |
| Local Secrets From Macedonio Alcalá | Centro Histórico And Santo Domingo | 2 hours 30 minutes | English | 4.59 / 5 | 99 | Oaxaca Free Walking Tour |
| Jalatlaco Murals And Art Workshops | Jalatlaco And The Street Murals | 2 hours | English and Spanish | 4.93 / 5 | 96 | Named on GuruWalk |
| Kactus Introduction Walk | Centro Histórico And Santo Domingo | 2 hours 30 minutes | English and Spanish | 4.72 / 5 | 64 | Kactus |
| Markets, History And Art Walk | Xochimilco And The Markets | 2 hours | English and Spanish | 5.0 / 5 | 28 | Named on GuruWalk |
| Aztec Roots And Chocolate | Xochimilco And The Markets | 2 hours | English and Spanish | 4.78 / 5 | 23 | Named on GuruWalk |
The free and pay-what-you-want walking tours in Oaxaca listed here from GuruWalk, in English: 10 walks, 10 of them with a full page on this site. This is not every walk on either platform: listings that state no language, or run in other languages, are left out.
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Every walk here sits on GuruWalk. Independent local guides run them all, free and pay what you want: you book your spot on the walk's own page on its platform, with nothing charged ahead of the walk.
Your Choices
Turning cookies off, or wiping them after a visit, costs nothing in content here. The pieces on the Zócalo, the Mercado 20 de Noviembre or Cerro del Fortín stay open to read, and so do the walk pages, including Free Walking Tour Oaxaca by locals, rated 4.63 out of 5 across 1,165 GuruWalk reviews. Booking a spot sits outside all of this. It takes place on GuruWalk's own page for the walk, where any account belongs to the walker alone and can be shut down whenever they choose. Nothing on this site has to be joined, paid for or signed into first.
A privacy question or a correction can be sent to the email address listed in the footer of this site. Walk-specific matters belong elsewhere. Meeting points such as Cosijoeza 110A or the Jardín El Pañuelito, durations of 2 hours or 2 hours 30 minutes, and whether a walk runs in English and Spanish are all set by the guide, not by this site. Each of the 10 free walking tours here is run by an independent local operator, and the guide can be reached through GuruWalk's own page for that walk. No reservation passes through this site at any point.