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Audio Guide: Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Cartagena
3 h
Audioguide
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About this activity
Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s Cartagena is a walking audio tour of the Historic Center of Cartagena de Indias. In an exciting historical, cultural and literary journey, based on the Magical Realism of our Nobel Prize for Literature and the true stories of Gabo’s life in the city.
Through this audio tour, mysterious aspects of the city that have been transformed into imaginary stories in the works of this great writer are discovered. Cartagena in the literary universe of Gabo, gives us an extraordinary view of the importance of the city in the seventeenth, eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
The research, development and production of the Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s Cartagena audio tour had the approval and support of the Gabriel García Márquez Foundation for a New Iberoamerican Journalism, FNPI.
The tour last 3 hours and has a total of 35 stations, divided in 12 squares and 23 streets with stories inside the walled city. The customer selects the time to devote to this audio tour. Each station has individual narrations, so the selection of streets and squares can be selected freely because they are not interlaced.
Languages: Spanish, English, French, German and Italian.
• Content developed by historians specifically for Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Cartagena audio guide
• Voice over narration with music and sound effects
• 35 stations with support images that will help you identify the places being referenced
• Illustrated map of the Walled City with reference pointsThere are special programs for conventions and incentive travel. Travel custom designs to suit the client with the length that is needed and starting from anywhere in the historic center or the hotel where they are staying.
Schedule of tours: Monday to Sunday from 8:00 am to 6:00 pm and extended to groups of 10 or more.
Once reservation is confirmed, we deliver the equipment in the hotel where you are staying.
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Through this audio tour, mysterious aspects of the city that have been transformed into imaginary stories in the works of this great writer are discovered. Cartagena in the literary universe of Gabo, gives us an extraordinary view of the importance of the city in the seventeenth, eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
The research, development and production of the Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s Cartagena audio tour had the approval and support of the Gabriel García Márquez Foundation for a New Iberoamerican Journalism, FNPI.
The tour last 3 hours and has a total of 35 stations, divided in 12 squares and 23 streets with stories inside the walled city. The customer selects the time to devote to this audio tour. Each station has individual narrations, so the selection of streets and squares can be selected freely because they are not interlaced.
Languages: Spanish, English, French, German and Italian.
• Content developed by historians specifically for Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Cartagena audio guide
• Voice over narration with music and sound effects
• 35 stations with support images that will help you identify the places being referenced
• Illustrated map of the Walled City with reference pointsThere are special programs for conventions and incentive travel. Travel custom designs to suit the client with the length that is needed and starting from anywhere in the historic center or the hotel where they are staying.
Schedule of tours: Monday to Sunday from 8:00 am to 6:00 pm and extended to groups of 10 or more.
Once reservation is confirmed, we deliver the equipment in the hotel where you are staying.
Included
- Headsets to hear the guide clearly
- Private tour
Not included
- Food and drinks
- Lunch
- Gratuities
- Hotel pickup and drop-off
Additional
- Confirmation will be received at time of booking
- Not wheelchair accessible
- No heart problems or other serious medical conditions
- Not recommended for pregnant travelers
- Children must be accompanied by an adult
- Minimum age is 18 years
- May be operated by a multi-lingual guide
- Passport name, number, expiry and country is required at time of booking for all participants
- Operates in all weather conditions, please dress appropriately
- Stroller accessible
- Service animals allowed
- Near public transportation
- Not recommended for travelers with back problems
- Travelers should have a moderate physical fitness level
- This experience requires good weather. If it’s canceled due to poor weather, you’ll be offered a different date or a full refund
Features
Tourism
90%
Cultural
65%
Adrenaline
20%
Original
15%
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We booked a walking tour with a taped guide. When meeting up with Gabriel our guide I became concerned that between wearing earphones, carrying the tape recorder and a water bottle we were a sitting duck for pick pockets since we look so much like the average ugly tourist. Gabriel offered to walk us through, which worked GREAT.
If you enjoy Garcia Marquez, this self-guided tour is excellent. It takes you to places relevant to his years in Cartagena, and - the best part - places that appeared in Love in the Time of Cholera, and Of Love and Other Demons. The tour takes about 3 hours, but you can do it at your own pace. The woman from Tierra Magna was very helpful, even delivered the materials to the hotel. You get a map and an audio guide.