Walking, Sightseeing & City Tours in Zagreb and Tours to Plitvice Lakes

Dear guests from all around the world, welcome to my homepage!  I am your English speaking licensed tourist guide in Zagreb, Croatia and will be glad if you join one of my Zagreb Tours and Plitvice Lakes Tours. Your advantage: you can book directly with your guide. No commissions or prepayment.

I would like to offer you my services: small group or private  Walking, Sightseeing and Driving Tours in Zagreb, the capital of Croatia and guiding of trips to Plitvice Lakes and surrounding of Zagreb.

Plitvice Lakes with your guide

Zagreb is a town with rich history and culture. The area of Zagreb covers the area of 642 km2 and it has 800 000 inhabitans. It lies on 122 m (400 ft) above sea level. The city is divided into three parts:Upper Town + Kaptol,Lower Town, built 19th century, Habsburg era styles buildings and New Zagreb.

Your advantage: you book directly with your local English speaking guide in Zagreb, Inga.

My contact here in Zagreb, Croatia:
Mobile: +385 91 594 0016
E-mail: ingajuraga@gmail.com

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Here bellow are listed

Small Group Walking, Sightseeing & Driving Tours in Zagreb

Private Walking Tour Zagreb
Your private city tour in Zagreb – 2 hours

• On this tour we walk the oldest streets of  Upper Town and Kaptol.  Upper Town is the oldest settlement and after we’d entered the old Upper Town through the Stone Gate, we arrive to St.Mark’s Square, the main attraction in Upper Town. It contains the Presidential Palace, the iconic St Mark’s Church, the Croatian parliament and various museums and galleries which are all set in cobbled streets lit by gas lamps. On another hill there is an old settlement called Kaptol, with its famous Zagreb Cathedral. Just nearby there is a very popular open air market Dolac. We stop for shopping, feel a local “flare” of street life in Zagreb and end up the tour at Jelacic Square, our  meeting point.

• Price for individuals: per person from € 19
  Price for groups: for a whole group from € 89 ( up to 50 person)
• Included: guide’s service.  Entrances to churches are free of charge.
• Funicular ride is optional, and the cost is € 0,5
• Departure of your sightseeing tour in Zagreb: every day at 10:00 from the main square – Jelacic Square, by the huge statue of a Feldmarshall Jelacic on a horse (you can’t miss it).
  Your advantage: you book directly with your guide. BOOK HERE

English guide in Zagreb

BESTSELLER: Walking Tour of Zagreb Downtown & Upper Town
Duration of your city tour in Zagreb – 2.5 hours

 No other Walking tour gives you such an insight of Zagreb as a whole. Downtown Zagreb is built at the end of 19th and beginning oft 20th century very much under the influence of Vienna’s architecture. There are beautifull theatres, parks, secession and baroque styled buildings to be seen. This part of the town is also called “Little Wienna”, because the most of the palaces and buildings were built in Habsburg era. Zrinjevac is one of the largest and most popular parks.

After Downtown we carry on to  Upper Town – walk through the  Stone Doors to St. Mark’s Square with its famous iconic  Church of St. Mark’s,  Presidential Palace and Croatian parliament.

Your English speaking guide in Zagreb

Zagreb Stone Gate

• Price for individuals: per person from € 29 (2-10 person)
  Price for groups: for a whole group from € 99 ( up to 50 person)
• Included: guide services
• Entrances to churches are free of charge
• Funicular ride is optional and costs €0,50
• Departure of your Walking tour in Zagreb: every day at 10:00 from the main square, Ban Jelacic Square, by the huge statue of a Feldmarshall Jelacic on a horse (you can’t miss it).

Your advantage: you book directly with your guide. BOOK HERE.

Plitvice Lakes Tour from Zagreb 

Lose yourself in the UNESCO-listed landscapes of the Plitvice Lakes National Park on this full-day tour from Zagreb.  This small-group tour is limited to 8 people, ensuring a personalized experience.

Small group Plitvice Tour

Departure from your accommodation at 8 o’clock. Around 10:30 AM you will arrive to Plitvice Lakes, a beautiful valley of 16 terraced lakes laced together by waterfalls and miles of pleasant walk paths.
The start of the tour takes you to The Upper Lakes (Gornja Jezera). The lakes are connected with series of breathtaking waterfalls and deposited travertine barriers that constantly change their shape by the power of the water.

Plitvice Lakes with your guide

Taking a boat ride to Jezero Kozjak, the largest lake and the Lower Lakes (Donja Jezera).

Lower lakes is an area consisting of four lakes located in the limestone canyon.

Plitvice Lakes with your guide

• Price for individuals: price depends of the number of travellers and means of transport.
• Price for groups: for a whole group from € 169 ( up to 50 person)
• Included: Guide services
• Departure of your Plitvice Tour from Zagreb: every day at 08:00 hours from your accommodation

Your advantage: you book directly with your guide, price quote on request depending on the number of travellers.

 REQUEST HERE

Jewish Tour of Zagreb 

Have you heard of the child actress Lea Deutsch who lived in Zagreb in years prior to WW2? She is often regarded to as  Croatian Anne Frank or Croatian Shirley Temple. Did you know that Jewish Community in Zagreb had their synagogue built in 1867. but destroyed under the Ustasha’s regime in 1941.? Join our Jewish Tour of Zagreb and find out more..

The Jewish community in Croatia today numbers around 2500 members. They live in 10 distinctive Jewish townships.

The largest community is in the capital of Zagreb. Their headquarters are in Palmoticeva 16. At the same address you will find a synagogue, an art gallery, a Holocaust research and documentation center and  the largest Jewish library in the Balkans, named after rabbi Lavoslav Sik. Also a kindergarten named Miriam Weiller.

Another community, called Bet Israel, is based on Mazuranicev Trg 6. It also has its own synagogue and library. It is a founder of the “Lauder Hugo Kon” primary school in the Upper Town Zagreb.

Mirogoj Cemetery Zagreb

What you should definitely visit during your stay in Zagreb will be shown to you during your Zagreb Jewish Tour:

The place where there used to be a Zagreb’s synagogue in Praska  Street, Cemetery at Mirogoj, a Jewish collection at the Museum of Arts and Crafts at Republic Croatia Square, and a Park of Righteous Among the Nations – Yad Vashem by the Selska Street, along with some most beautifull Zagreb Sights.

St. Mark’s Church Zagreb

• Price for individuals: per person from € 29 (2-10 person)
  Price for groups: for a whole group from € 99 ( up to 50 person)
• Included: guide services
• Entrances to churches are free of charge
• Funicular ride is optional and costs €0,50
• Departure of your Jewish tour in Zagreb: will be arranged

Your advantage: you book directly with your guide. REQUEST HERE.

Future Museum of Holocaust in Zagreb, old factory once owned by Samuel David Alexander

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Upper Town Zagreb, Lotrscak Tower

Zagreb Fresh Food Tour 
Your tour at Dolac Market, gastronomy and food

Croatian food, especially Mediterranean food is well known all around the world for its excellent quality and great ingreadients. The food is an excellent way to introduce you to my city Zagreb and to Croatia. You will taste some of the local Zagreb  finger food products peppered with impressive information on the city’s history and culture. You will get right in the centre of Dolac market, where you can admire the fish, meat, fruit and vegetables, fresh diary home made products. Not only that we will visit the famous Dolac market, but also I will show you the most beautifull sights of my town. See you!

Zagreb Fresh Food Tour

• Inclusive 
• walking tour
• tasting
• Exclusive
• transport
• entrances
• Price : € 44 per person

Your advantage: you book directly with your guide. BOOK HERE

Croatian traditional recipes

Sightseeing Tour Zagreb by car
for partly disabled and those who can’t walk a lot
Duration – 3 hours, price per person € 89

The first part of the tour is Upper Town + Kaptol, the thousand year old , which contains the Zagreb Cathedral, Presidential Palace, the iconic St Mark’s Church, the Croatian parliament and various museums and galleries which are all set in cobbled streets lit by gas lamps.

Zagreb Tour by Car

The Lower Town, built 19th century, Habsburg era styles buildings, streets and parks with its shops, restaurants, cafes, theatres and many residential goverment palaces we visit by car. Slow drive along lovely streets of Zagreb Downtown enables you to admire beautifull parks, Croatian National Theatre, University Library, Universites of Zagreb and everything that you always wanted to see in Zagreb. After Downtown we take you to the residential and embassy area on the hill above the town- Pantovčak. From Pantovčak hill down and up again to Mirogoj Cemetery, one of the most beautifull cemeteries in Europe. Graves of Catholic, Orthodox,Jewish,Islam faith,communist and atheist, together side by side in beautiful setting of Herman Bolle’s arcades.
By far, highlight of Zagreb.It is beautiful in every season.

Afterwards we carry on our drive to New Zagreb and the modern post-World War II area of, which lies on the southern bank of Sava River – which is full of high-rise buildings and green areas, recreational lake Bundek and  Lake Jarun, Zagreb Fair, Museum of Contemporary Art – MSU.

Mirogoj Cemetery Drive Tour

• Price for individuals: per person € 89 (2-6 person)
• Included: guide services and air conditioned comfortable car
• Entrance to churches are free of charge
• Departure of your Sightseeing Tour by car Zagreb:  at 09:00 from your accomodation

Book your tour here:
Mobile: +385 91 594 0016
E-mail: ingajuraga@gmail.com

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