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Top 15 Garden Walking Tours

29 tours  ·  from $14 a head

Short seasons and capped slots mean the good garden walking tours go first. Below: the 15 to book early, what each includes and how they differ.

Marrakech: Ben Youssef, Secret Garden, & Souks Walking Tour - Jemaa el-Fnaa gives you your first bearings
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Marrakech: Ben Youssef, Secret Garden, & Souks Walking Tour

1.Ben Youssef, Secret Garden, & Souks Walking Tour

★★★★★★★★★★4.6 · 2,802 reviews · 3 hours · from $20Our pick

Start at Jemaa el-Fnaa and follow a local guide through Ben Youssef Madrasa, Mouassine, the Secret Garden, and the Medina souks. Guides such as Abdel, Ali, Abdul, and Hassan are praised for clear stories, humor, and help with shopping and artisan visits. Plan for entrance fees, cash, and plenty of walking.

“Excellent guided tour. Our guide Jawad was very friendly and patient. He gave us enough time to explore around and even shop. Really pleased.”

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Sintra & Cascais Day Tour with Pena Palace Entry and Gardens Walk - Pena Palace and gardens: the day’s main event
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Sintra & Cascais Day Tour with Pena Palace Entry and Gardens Walk

2.Sintra & Cascais Day Tour with Pena Palace Entry and Gardens Walk

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 962 reviews · 8 hours (approx.) · from $92Top rated

Travel from Lisbon to Pena Palace, Sintra, Cabo da Roca, and Cascais in an air-conditioned minivan for up to 16 people. You get palace entry, a gardens walk, hotel or port pickup, and live commentary from guides such as Nuno, Joanna, Simon, and Oriana.

“Run, do not walk, to select this tour out of all others to Sintra. Tiago is an amazing driver and guide. So knowledgeable! Unlike all of the others I researched, this one includes hotel pickup and dropoff, admissions and a small group. Plus we visited two besutiful coastal areas! Loved it. Highly recommend!”

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Versailles Château and Gardens Walking Tour - Walking the 800-hectare royal gardens
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Versailles Château and Gardens Walking Tour

3.Versailles Château and Gardens Walking Tour

★★★★★★★★★★4.5 · 727 reviews · 3 hours (approx.) · from $78

Walk Versailles gardens with guides such as Toby, Aaron, Mado, and OJ, then explore the palace independently with timed entry. Expect a small group of up to 15, a brisk pace, grand fountains, the Hall of Mirrors, and no guided tour inside the palace.

“The palace was beautiful and the guide was very helpful taking photos for us, however he didn't warn us about certain restrictions on the Metro,. I was fined 60 euros.”

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Giverny Village Walking Tour & Skip-the-Line to Monet Garden - Meeting your guide on Rue Claude Monet
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Giverny Village Walking Tour & Skip-the-Line to Monet Garden

4.Giverny Village Walking Tour & Skip-the-Line to Monet Garden

★★★★★★★★★★4.0 · 595 reviews · 1 - 2 hours · from $64

Meet your English or French-speaking guide outside Les Capucines for a short walk through Giverny, then enter Monet’s House and Gardens with priority access. Hear stories about Monet, his family, and the village before exploring the house, Japanese bridge, pond, and flower beds at your own pace.

“Our guide was very friendly and her knowledge of The Versailles Palace was excellent! Her name was Monica. We really appreciated her. We were very happy we took the tour with The Tour Guy!”

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Munich: Old Town Walking Tour - The old town’s royal and religious landmarks
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Munich: Old Town Walking Tour

5.Munich: Old Town Walking Tour

★★★★★★★★★★4.7 · 589 reviews · 2 hours · from $23

Walk Munich’s historic center with an English-speaking guide such as Claudia, Noel, Sam, or Emanuela. You’ll see Marienplatz, the Frauenkirche, the Residenz, beer halls, and the English Garden, with stories of royal scandals, city legends, and Munich’s unusual surfing culture.

“Was a very interesting tour. Informative guide. We were affected a bit by the rainy snowy weather but we got to see nearly everything.”

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Imperial Palace East Garden and Edo Castle Walking Tour in Tokyo - What the guides add to the walk
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Imperial Palace East Garden and Edo Castle Walking Tour in Tokyo

6.Imperial Palace East Garden and Edo Castle Walking Tour in Tokyo

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 510 reviews · from $25

Meet your English-speaking guide at Starbucks near Wadakura Fountain Park for a 2.5-hour walk through the park and Imperial Palace East Gardens. Learn about Edo Castle, shoguns, samurai, and Japan’s imperial family. Guides such as Kenta, Kei, Sato, and Glenda are known for clear storytelling.

“Whoever runs this needs to update the description. This is a MULTI HOUR tour. Do not expect to be done in an hour to an hour and a half. It took almost 2.5 hrs for us which really hurt our schedule. The tour and the guide were great, but providing this info upfront would’ve been considerate (and expected) for the customer.”

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Salzburg: Old Town, Mozart, & Mirabell Gardens Walking Tour - Starting at Mirabell Palace and Gardens
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Salzburg: Old Town, Mozart, & Mirabell Gardens Walking Tour

7.Salzburg: Old Town, Mozart, & Mirabell Gardens Walking Tour

★★★★★★★★★★4.8 · 461 reviews · 2 hours · from $45

Walk from Mirabell Palace to Salzburg’s Old Town with an English-speaking guide such as Annabelle, Andreas, or Florian. See the Do-Re-Mi gardens, Mozart’s Birthplace, the Cathedral, Residenzplatz, and Hohensalzburg Fortress views. It is a brisk, story-filled introduction at $45 per person.

“Florian was a fantastic guide who brought a great sense of humour to the tour. A great way to see the sights on the Munich Old Town and the visual cues to show us where Sound of Music scenes took place were very helpful.”

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Kyoto Arashiyama Bamboo forest & Garden Half-Day Walking Tour - Hokyoin and the quieter side of Arashiyama
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Kyoto Arashiyama Bamboo forest & Garden Half-Day Walking Tour

8.Kyoto Arashiyama Bamboo forest & Garden Half-Day Walking Tour

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 413 reviews · from $129

Walk Arashiyama with a certified guide and no more than seven people. You’ll visit Hokyoin, Tenryuji, Okochi Sanso Garden, the bamboo forest, and Togetsukyo Bridge, with matcha, photos, temple admissions, and a Kyoto-style lunch included.

“Yumi was an excellent guide! Her English was good and she also had visual aids to help learn more about shrines and temples. The gardens were stunning. The lunch was absolutely wonderful. All at a great price.”

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Savannah Midnight in the Garden of Good & Evil Narrated Walking Tour - Starting with Jim Williams in Reynolds Square
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Savannah Midnight in the Garden of Good & Evil Narrated Walking Tour

9.Savannah Midnight in the Garden of Good & Evil Narrated Walking Tour

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 370 reviews · 2 hours 15 minutes (approx.) · from $35

Join Martin Sinderman of Savannah Sidewalk Tours for a small-group, English-language walk through Savannah’s Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil sites. Over about 2 hours 15 minutes, you’ll connect the book and film to Jim Williams, Johnny Mercer, Joe Odom, Minerva, and Savannah history.

“Our Group was Ashanti Too Book Club and we were celebrating our 20th Anniversary as a club. Our book for the month was Midnight in the Garden of Good & Evil. Martin our tour guide did an excellent job. The stories, sites and the squares were so interesting. He kept the pace of the tour so well with a built in break at a cafe/store. I highly recommend Martin and this tour. It was just enough walking we had a couple in our group with walking issues but they did extremely well.”

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Tokyo: Imperial Palace East Gardens Walking Tour - The Honmaru area and the shape of Edo Castle
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Tokyo: Imperial Palace East Gardens Walking Tour

10.Imperial Palace East Gardens Walking Tour

★★★★★★★★★★4.8 · 353 reviews · 2h 30m · from $19Best value

Walk through Tokyo’s Imperial Palace East Gardens with an English-speaking guide such as Mei, Kei, or Wakana. See Edo Castle foundations, guard houses, stone walls, Ninomaru Garden, ponds, bonsai, and seasonal flowers while learning how shoguns and emperors shaped Japan.

“Tour was fantastic, Kei was an excellent guide, very knowledgeable and willing to answer all sorts of questions. I highly recommend this tour and Kei as a guide!”

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Paris: Louvre Museum Entry Ticket and Garden Walking Tour - The Louvre Pyramid and Cour Napoléon
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Paris: Louvre Museum Entry Ticket and Garden Walking Tour

11.Louvre Museum Entry Ticket and Garden Walking Tour

★★★★★★★★★★4.2 · 326 reviews · from $51

Spend four hours around the Louvre with an English-speaking guide, visiting the Pyramid, Carrousel arch, Tuileries Garden, and Cour Napoléon before entering the museum on your own. Guides such as Denise, Paula, Sagar, and Laura have led departures. A Seine cruise is an optional add-on.

“Wasn’t too long. Sugar was great - didn’t talk tooooo much! But was informative. The little walking tour is just enough before a long day in the louvre”

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Aboriginal Heritage Walk - Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria, Melbourne Gardens - Storytelling from Uncle Den, Uncle Ben, and Jacobi
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Aboriginal Heritage Walk – Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria, Melbourne Gardens

12.Aboriginal Heritage Walk – Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria, Melbourne Gardens

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 314 reviews · from $30

Join an Aboriginal guide at 11:00 am for a 90-minute walk through Melbourne Gardens. Learn how the Kulin people use native plants for food, medicine, and cultural practice. Guides such as Uncle Den, Uncle Ben, and Jacobi bring stories, poetry, and hands-on plant encounters into this small-group experience.

“Den was our Aboriginal guide and he was excellent. This was a very informative and thought provoking tour and enjoyed by visitors and Australians in our group. The Botanic Gardens are stunning and need a lot longer to explore.”

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Gardens of Versailles Walking Tour & Palace Entry - Groves, fountains, and the stories behind the design
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Gardens of Versailles Walking Tour & Palace Entry

13.Gardens of Versailles Walking Tour & Palace Entry

★★★★★★★★★★4.5 · 257 reviews · 3 hours · from $76

Walk Versailles with an English-speaking guide such as Aaron, Toby, or OJ, hearing stories about Louis XIV, Le Nôtre, fountains, and royal groves. After three hours, enter the palace on your own, including the Hall of Mirrors and King’s apartment, and stay until closing.

“Great tour! Nick added a lot of fun to the tour with his British dry humor and fun facts about the life of the late French monarchs.”

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Giverny Monet House and Gardens Skip the line Walking tour - Starting at La Capucine Giverny
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Giverny Monet House and Gardens Skip the line Walking tour

14.Giverny Monet House and Gardens Skip the line Walking tour

★★★★★★★★★★4.0 · 217 reviews · from $63

Walk through Giverny village, then enter Monet’s pink house and gardens through a special entrance. Your guide connects the rooms, Japanese prints, bridges, and lily ponds to Monet’s life and art. The two-hour tour costs $63.86 and caps the group at 15 people.

“Despite the rain and the fact that we were visiting in October this tour was wonderful. The garden was beautiful in October!”

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Salzburg Old Town Walking Tour, Mozart, Mirabell Gardens - Mozart’s Salzburg around Makartplatz
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Salzburg Old Town Walking Tour, Mozart, Mirabell Gardens

15.Salzburg Old Town Walking Tour, Mozart, Mirabell Gardens

★★★★★★★★★★4.5 · 201 reviews · 2 hours (approx.) · from $39

In about two hours, a licensed English-speaking guide leads you from Salzburg Congress through Mirabell Gardens, across the Salzach, along Getreidegasse, and into the Old Town. You see Mozart’s birthplace, cathedral, Baroque squares, and Sound of Music locations, with guides such as Florian, Norbert, Andrea, and Annabelle.

“Lovely tour, our guide managed us deftly though the hoards at the Christmas markets and we still were able to see the sights and enjoy the history”

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