Venice Beach and Canals Walking Tour
Los Angeles, California
Trip Type: Walking Tours
Duration: 3 hours
Discover Venice’s hidden treasures with a local expert on this three-hour walking tour. Visit Muscle beach, Ocean Front Walk, and the world-famous Venice Canals. Retrace the steps of eccentric luminaries such as Jim Morrison, Charlie Chaplin, and Arnold Schwarzenegger. Watch clips on your guide’s iPad tracing back more than 106 years of southern California history and see why this paradise by the sea is considered by many as LA’s most exciting neighborhood.
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Discover Venice’s hidden treasures with a local expert on this three-hour walking tour. Visit Muscle beach, Ocean Front Walk, and the world-famous Venice Canals. Retrace the steps of eccentric luminaries such as Jim Morrison, Charlie Chaplin, and Arnold Schwarzenegger. Watch clips on your guide’s iPad tracing back more than 106 years of southern California history and see why this paradise by the sea is considered by many as LA’s most exciting neighborhood.
The roughly three-hour tour starts in Venice’s historic district, an area only truly understood by locals and filled with century-old palm trees and craftsman cottages. Then it’s on to the beach, where you’ll be surrounded by the street performers, artists, weight-lifters, roller-bladers, lifeguards, musicians, tattoo parlors and pot shops on the world-famous Ocean Front Walk.
After visiting the beach, you will walk among the beautiful 1906 Venice Canals, full of quaint bridges and abundant wildlife such as ducks, egrets and blue herons. Along the way, you’ll see film clips and vintage photos featuring Charlie Chaplin, Marilyn Monroe, Mary Pickford, Jim Morrison, Peter Fonda, Arnold Schwarzenegger and more. You will visit the same locations where these famous celebrities once walked, ran, wrote poetry, cried, and pumped iron.
During the trip, you’ll visit the site of the world’s first surfing exhibitions, hear macabre tales of the Manson Family murder site, see a hangout of famed beat writers Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac and snap photos of vibrant murals painted between 1941 and 2016. Along the way, your guide will play iPad movie clips of long gone historic piers, old boutique storefronts, and colorful Venice Beach personalities to help you truly appreciate the incredible history of the area. By the end of the tour, you’ll understand why most locals have considered Venice LA’s most exciting neighborhood for more than 111 years.
The roughly three-hour tour starts in Venice’s historic district, an area only truly understood by locals and filled with century-old palm trees and craftsman cottages. Then it’s on to the beach, where you’ll be surrounded by the street performers, artists, weight-lifters, roller-bladers, lifeguards, musicians, tattoo parlors and pot shops on the world-famous Ocean Front Walk.
After visiting the beach, you will walk among the beautiful 1906 Venice Canals, full of quaint bridges and abundant wildlife such as ducks, egrets and blue herons. Along the way, you’ll see film clips and vintage photos featuring Charlie Chaplin, Marilyn Monroe, Mary Pickford, Jim Morrison, Peter Fonda, Arnold Schwarzenegger and more. You will visit the same locations where these famous celebrities once walked, ran, wrote poetry, cried, and pumped iron.
During the trip, you’ll visit the site of the world’s first surfing exhibitions, hear macabre tales of the Manson Family murder site, see a hangout of famed beat writers Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac and snap photos of vibrant murals painted between 1941 and 2016. Along the way, your guide will play iPad movie clips of long gone historic piers, old boutique storefronts, and colorful Venice Beach personalities to help you truly appreciate the incredible history of the area. By the end of the tour, you’ll understand why most locals have considered Venice LA’s most exciting neighborhood for more than 111 years.
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