Tours and Tickets to Experience Caminito

There are plenty of ways to experience Caminito. Looking at ratings and reviews previously given by customers, these are the best tours available right now:

• Buenos Aires City Private Tour with Local Guide

• Buenos Aires Small-Group City Tour

• Bike Tour: Half-Day City Highlights of Buenos Aires

• La Boca Walking Tour

• Group City Tour of Buenos Aires

While Caminito and the La Boca district are both free to visit, many travelers choose to explore with guided walking tours or tours of Buenos Aires’ neighborhoods. Walking tours of La Boca start around US$15 per person, while Buenos Aires city tours are from US$35.

Located at the heart of La Boca, the Caminito is one of Buenos Aires’ most famous streets, renowned for its colorful, painted houses. While few original structures remain, the wood-and-corrugated-metal tenement buildings evoke the feel of Buenos Aires in the 19th and 20th centuries, and feature statues of Argentine icons.

Caminito is located in the La Boca neighborhood, along the Matanza River in southern Buenos Aires. Many city tours and hop-on hop-off bus tours stop at Caminito, but you can also visit independently by bus: no. 29A or 29B stops at Av Corrientes, the Obelisk, and Plaza de Mayo.

The brightly painted houses of Caminito are one of the most photographed sights in Buenos Aires; statues of Evita, Maradona, and other famous Argentines can be seen on their balconies. You can also explore Caminito’s small art galleries, souvenir shops, and cafés, and watch the street tango dancers.

Caminito is liveliest from about 11am to 4pm, when the tango dancers and other street entertainers perform, and the cafés and galleries are buzzing with activity. For crowd-free photos, get there at 10am before the day tours arrive, but avoid visiting after 6pm—La Boca is not considered to be safe after dark.