Tours & tickets

Mercado de Bazurto

The tour begins at Centenario Park, right next to the Clock Tower, where you'll board a local bus to Cartagena's main market, Bazurto. This 40-year-old market is an exotic maze brimming with unique characters, vibrant colors, and diverse flavors. We'll pass through Barrio Chino, the neighborhood adjacent to the market, where you'll meet locals and neighbors. You'll venture deeper into the market to visit musicians, artists, and enjoy various fruits and the rich diversity of gastronomy. You'll also meet experienced mechanics, learn about traditional herbs, and finally, end up at Cecilia's restaurant, globally recognized for its appearance on Anthony Bourdain's show. There, you'll have several options for a delicious local lunch.

We will pick you up to visit the Bazurto Market, a famous and vibrant market located in the heart of Cartagena. It is known for being a center of informal trade and for its great diversity of products, including fresh food, spices, textiles, handicrafts and other everyday items. This market is a reflection of the local culture and daily life of the Cartageneros, being a bustling and colorful place where you can find everything from freshly caught fish and seafood to tropical fruits and exotic meats. In this place we will try different tastings between typical fruits, games, seafood, fish, all this while we are on our way to take our lunch, where you can choose between meat, fish or seafood. Although the atmosphere can be chaotic, Bazurto is considered an authentic place for those who are looking to know the traditional life of the city.

Enjoy this integrated cultural experience of the city of Cartagena de Indias. Discovering the market will give those who visit it a completely broad vision of the life of the people of Cartagena as well as their history. In this experience you will learn a little about the typical cuisine of Cartagena, first we will try typical fruits from the Caribbean coast, we will drink guarapo, the local drink to refresh ourselves, we will try the costeñita, local beer, we will have lunch where Anthony Bourdain himself had lunch when he came to Cartagena and above all we will be very happy together.

Discover the authentic cuisine and food culture of Colombia on this guided tour around Bazurto Market. Try local snacks and shop for ingredients, then enjoy a typical lunch and join a Colombia cooking lesson, pickup and drop-off included. Step into a local public market and learn how to coexist in a space with restaurants, stalls, street vendors, and people. See local offerings and interact with vendors in a colorful environment. Get to know a totally different culture that will allow you to get to know people better. Laugh, learn, hear stories, and leave with new cooking skills and local cooking recipes under your belt.