Buenos Aires Walking Tours
My Guided Walking Tours of Buenos Aires are Back!
Some eagle-eyed readers may have noticed from my About Me and Buenos Aires Tours pages that in the past few days I have begun to offer paid guided tours of Buenos Aires again.
This wasn’t exactly planned, but I’m very happy about it, because tour guiding is probably the most enjoyable job I’ve ever had (for those of you not familiar with my past, I was a tour guide here in Buenos Aires for about a year, up until this time last year).
As I say, it’s all started up again a little by chance. I recently put up a suggested walking tour of Buenos Aires City Center on this blog, which is intended to be used by anyone that wants to as a free self-guided tour of this great city.
Literally the day after I posted, some brothers from the US on holiday in Argentina emailed out of the blue, asking me to give them the tour I posted on a private guided basis. I had some time free, so I thought ‘why not’?
After some lightning quick revision and a practice tour with my friends (it’s amazing how fast the names, dates, anecdotes and jokes came flooding back), I gave the tour, mainly to see how I would feel returning to this line of business. Not only did I enjoy it immensely, but the brothers also loved the tour… so much so that they persuaded me to give them an off-the-cuff tour of San Telmo and La Boca a couple of days later. They were so nice and enthusiastic about my tour guiding, that it gave me a feel good factor and the urge to return to guiding tours around Buenos Aires.
Book a Private Walking Tour of Buenos Aires
And so, here I am, looking for people who would like to take a walking tour in BA. I like to think of myself as both a mainstream blog writer and tour guide - I’m not offering ‘the other side of Buenos Aires’ or concentrating heavily on specialist areas such as history, architecture or tango, but instead trying to give an overview of many of the major sightseeing attractions in an enjoyable, informative manner, while pointing out interesting little details and stories that you may otherwise have missed. So…
If you like the way I write in this blog, and are planning a trip to Buenos Aires, then please consider booking a private walking tour of Buenos Aires City Center with me.
For more details and a booking form, please go here:
BOOK MY BUENOS AIRES WALKING TOURS
At the moment I am only offering the city center tour, which is an excellent introduction to the key sights and history of Buenos Aires, but fairly soon I will be offering other walking tours of barrios such as San Telmo, Recoleta, and La Boca. So keep checking back, and please wish me luck with my return to the exciting world of tour guiding! 
April 16th, 2007 at 8:23 pm
Hey!
Very interesting indeed!
I can tell from your previous posts that you should be a very interesting and funny guide!
It0s been a long time since the last time I posted here, but I haven read all your posts via GReader.
I had thought of doing this kinda of thing myself a long time ago, but I just chickened out!
I wish you the best of lucks, and do not doubt to contact me should you need any kind of “native” help. =D
Bestest,
S.
April 17th, 2007 at 6:41 pm
Hi Subjuntivo,
Thanks for the kind words of support about my tours. The first bookings from this site are already rolling in, hope they continue to do so!
I will be sure to contact you if I need a hand…thanks again.
Gotta love Google Reader… great choice of feed reader there
Cheers,
Alan
April 22nd, 2007 at 7:13 pm
good luck, Alan !!! Im glad about your entrepeneurship. BA need many tour guides , and the best as you , Robert or Diva among others ( in english language).
The tourists requires excellence and U know about it.
Hi hi tourists !! Pay attention ,Alan is a great guide !
April 22nd, 2007 at 8:42 pm
Thanks Dalton! I really appreciate your kind words of support… and I hope the tourists listen to you!
You mentioning Robert and Diva reminded me of a quotation from one of my favorite movies (yes, this is a joke about me)…
“We’re very lucky in the band that we have two visionaries, David and Nigel. They’re like poets, like Shelley and Byron. They’re two distinct visionaries, like fire and ice, basically. I feel my role in the band is to be somewhere in the middle of that, kind of like lukewarm water.”
- Derek Smalls, Spinal Tap
I’ll leave Robert and Diva to fight it out for who gets to be fire and who is ice - I’m just happy to be lukewarm water!
I guess what I’m trying to say is that my tours are far from innovative or different - just solid, quality, fun walking tours. And I hope that a lot of people coming to BA are after that kind of thing
Thanks again Dalton - actually, I will email you quite soon to discuss something… sorry it has been so long since I last mailed!
Cheers,
Alan
April 30th, 2007 at 6:37 am
HI, I live in Buenos Aires, in Palermo, and y want to thank you the creation of this blog, because I have to do a lot of works for the city and I found so much information here. I really want to contact you and speak a few minutes about your view of some diferents aspects of buenos aires. So if you like to please let me Know.
thankss good bye!