Top Oakland Cultural Tours

Eat like a local with the help of a tour guide who knows the Oakland food scene like the back of their hand. Spend 3.5 hours eating at as many as five Black-owned restaurants, learning about the city’s culture and cuisine as you go. The tour will be led by a passionate guide from the area who’ll tell you all about Oakland’s past and present.

Join us on a full-day, small-group wine tour of the Spectacular Napa Valley wine country for guests coming from San Francisco! Take the San Francisco Bay Ferry & meet us at the Vallejo Ferry Terminal. In our small shuttle bus, you’ll visit three charming, back roads wineries that change daily and be served a picnic lunch in an idyllic winery setting. Your tour guide will tell fascinating stories and share many interesting tidbits about local history, culture and wine making. Our specialty is intimate, light hearted and truly memorable experiences. Your guide will set up a tasty picnic lunch for you at a picturesque winery. Once the tour concludes, you will be dropped off at the Vallejo Ferry Terminal in time to catch one of the evening return ferries to San Francisco. The tour typically has 8-12 guests on board.

UC Berkeley is one of the world's great public universities, and its campus is as intellectually alive as the city surrounding it. On this self-guided audio tour, you'll discover how Nobel Prize winners, student revolutionaries, and football legends shaped a place where academic ambition and civic defiance are equally celebrated. The tour starts at the corner of Telegraph Avenue and Durant Avenue, where you'll cross into campus at Sproul Plaza – the birthplace of the 1964 Free Speech Movement. From Memorial Glade, you'll follow J. Robert Oppenheimer's daily walking route across Strawberry Creek to the Faculty Club, where he and Ernest Lawrence reportedly sketched nuclear weapons research on a linen tablecloth. The tour winds through the Haas School of Business, past California Memorial Stadium – which sits directly on the Hayward Fault and was rebuilt in floating sections to survive an earthquake – before finishing back at Telegraph Avenue and Durant Avenue.