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TOP 10 guided tours and excursions in Spanish around the world

St. Peter's Square at the Vatican in Rome
St. Peter's Square at the Vatican in Rome

We all know that way of traveling has changed a lot in recent times, largely due to the appearance of flights low cost.

Its rise has led to a general reduction in the prices of air travel, which facilitates travel to distant destinations y make more getaways to Spanish and European cities.

But this change is also due to the rise of Internet and websites with travel services, such as find hotels, contract rental cars and sign up for guided tours and excursions.

Travel on your own or organized trip

And in relation to this last aspect, in recent years the dilemma of having to choose between organize a trip on your own or sign up for a trip with everything organized.

The great rise of the new tour and excursion platforms allows you to organize a trip on your own, but, at the same time, select and reserve in advance different guided tours and tourist activities that are going to give interesting content to said trip.

Likewise, these websites ofrecen day trips, but also several days, which allow you to expand your own travel plan with days with everything organized.

And although there has been an international website for tours and excursions for many years, we must recognize that we have begun to use this type of platform after the appearance of the Spanish website Civitatis.

Views of New York from the Top of the Rock observation deck
Views of New York from the Top of the Rock observation deck

Its very extensive offer of guided tours and excursionsas well as tourist activities, and the ease of use of its website, are determining factors in its favor, but above all, that almost all of them are carried out with guides in spanish.

Finally, it is also worth highlighting the wide range of airport transfers to the center of the city where you are traveling, which is very useful to book in advance in certain destinations.

Why sign up for a guided tour or excursion

Each tourist and traveler has our own preferences when traveling, and in our specific case, we have always liked organize our own trip, well for visit cities or to make a route by car.

Guided tours with guide in Spanish

But, at the same time, we have always valued the importance of participating in a tour accompanied by a specialized guide that reveals to us the keys to the site visited, and much better if it is en español.

Angkor Wat in Cambodia
Angkor Wat in Cambodia

In the case of cities, a two or three hour visit with a guide will allow you to have a first overview of the destination, so that later you can visit it on your own and delve deeper into the corners or monuments that interest you the most. .

Guided tours with skip-the-line tickets

In the case of highly visited monuments, sign up for the tour It is also a way to ensure tickets and avoid queues to get them.

There are more and more places or monuments that have long queues to visit, especially during holiday periods or weekends, and a guided tour is a good way to avoid them.

Excursions in comfort

In certain destinations we have also chosen to sign up for excursions that made our visit easier and allowed us not to worry about its management.

In general we usually do the excursions on our own, but many times it is much more comfortable to have everything taken care of, from transportation, to access to the places to visit, and always with the company in a specialized guide, and better if he talks to us en español.

Beach bars in Jemaa El Fna square in Marrakech
Beach bars in Jemaa El Fna square in Marrakech

Live experiences with tourist activities

And, of course, do some of the tourist activities that allow you live experiences during trips.

New platforms like Civitatis They allow you to discover activities that you can sign up for, and they facilitate your reservation in advance of your trip, and on the date that best suits you for it.

Best tours and excursions in Spanish around the world

As guidance for your future trips, below we are going to highlight some guided tours and excursions that we have booked in Civitatis in advance of our trip, and others that we have yet to do on future trips.

All of them in very attractive and visited destinations, and all of them with highest rating by other people who have also enjoyed them.

Vatican Museums in Rome
Vatican Museums in Rome

Vatican Tour in Spanish in Rome

One of the essential visits in a trip to Rome is Vatican, and specifically, the Vatican museums and the Sistine Chapel.

The guided tour of Civitatis which we signed up for allowed us to get to know these places, as well as visit the St. Peter's Basilica with guide in spanish.

Here you have all the information about the guided tour of the Vatican.

Contrasts of New York Tour in Spanish

If a essential guided tour to complete your trip to New York, that is Contrasts of New York, which in a full morning allows you to get to know other iconic neighborhoods of the city, beyond the central one Manhattan.

Moving in a minibus and with the company of a guide in spanish, you will visit the most outstanding corners of Harlem, Bronx y Brooklyn.

Check information about Contrasts of New York excursion, and about his VIP version.

Contrasts of New York Tour
Contrasts of New York Tour

Guided tour of the Alhambra in Granada

One of the monuments in the world that arouses the most interest to be visited, and whose daily access limitations force you to plan your visit further in advance, is the Alhambra of Granada.

The best and most recommended way to ensure your entry is to sign up for the guided tour of the Alhambra, in which you will visit the Nasrid palace, palace of Charles V, Alcazaba and Generalife.

Toledo day trip

One of the essential visits from Madrid is Toledo, the city of Three Cultures.

And to get to know it without worrying about how to go and ensure the company of a specialized guide, you can sign up for this excursion to Toledo in one day, in which you will leave at 9 am from Madrid and visit its main monuments.

Mezouga Desert Tour in Spanish from Marrakech

One of the attractions of a trip to Marrakech, in the south of Morocco, is the possibility of knowing and sleep in the Sahara desert.

Good option is excursion to the Mezouga desert in which in three days You will cross valleys, see fortified towns that have been movie sets, climb gorges, go along dirt tracks and climb dunes on the back of a camel.

Majorelle Garden in Marrakech
Majorelle Garden in Marrakech

Here you have all the information about the excursion to the Mezouga desert in three days, as well as the option of excursion in four days, ideal for family groups or friends.

Volendam and Marken excursion in Spanish from Amsterdam

Un trip to amsterdam It should be completed with an excursion to see the most picturesque and rural Holland.

For this you can sign up for a excursion to Volendam, Marken and other beautiful towns where in an 8-hour day and with a guide in spanish You will see rural landscapes, traditional 15th century houses, mills, the polders and Dutch clog and cheese factories.

Helicopter tour in the Grand Canyon of the Colorado

There are few activities as attractive that you can sign up for in different destinations around the world as a helicopter tour, and one of the best places to enjoy it is the Grand Canyon of the Colorado, western United States.

Here you have all the information and you can reserve your reservation in advance. Grand Canyon South Rim Helicopter Tour

Excursion to the Great Wall of China in Spanish from Beijing

Surely in your sightseeing trip to china when you visit Pekin You will be very interested in knowing the Gran Muralla China.

Great Wall of China in Badaling
Great Wall of China in Badaling

For this, the most comfortable thing, without a doubt, is for you to sign up for a private excursion in Spanish to the Great Wall of China

This way you will choose the area to visit from the various sections of the Great Wall, and in a day of between 8 and 10 hours, if you choose to go to Badaling you will have the possibility to also visit the Ming Tombs.

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Rovaniemi Snowmobile Tour in Finland

If you are passionate about winter destinations, you are surely considering making a trip to the nordic countries in winter for enjoying snow activities.

Snowmobile in Ruka
Snowmobile in Ruka in Lapland Finland

Rovaniemi, riding a Finland, is one of the most attractive destinations, and there it is essential to sign up for a snowmobile tour in which for two or three hours, with a guide in Spanish, you will drive these vehicles through winter landscapes.

2-day tour in Spanish to Angkor Temples in Cambodia

The Angkor temples en Cambodia They are one of the most attractive destinations you can book on a trip to Asia.

Due to the incredible extension of this movie setting, you will need two or three days to see it, undoubtedly accompanied by a guide in spanish that will discover its main corners.

Here you can reserve the Two-Day Angkor Temples Tour with guide in Spanish

About the Author

José Luis Sarralde

Journalist and traveler throughout his life, José Luis Sarralde is the founder of Guías Viajar, where since 2008 he has been capturing his travel experiences around the world, specializing in cultural and scenic destinations in Spain and Europe.

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