BOSTON HALF DAY TOUR BY CAR

Tour Start & End Point: BOSTON

Tour Duration: Daily ( 4 hours )

Operates: All year - round

BOSTON – FROM COLONIAL TO MODERN

A day simply filled with colonial & modern Boston places!

I will pick you in the morning & start our day with colonial Boston from the 17th century. This private half day tour will take you from colonial times to modern Boston. In this tour, we will drive by Boston's iconic 2.5 mile-Freedom Trail that passes by 16 locations significant to the history of the United States, then Boston's oldest neighborhoods, Beacon Hill, known for its charming, narrow cobblestone streets, federal style row houses and gaslit streetlamps, at the same time we also drive by Back Bay, built on reclaimed land in the Charles River basin with its Victorian brownstone homes, then Copley Square, Boston's central meeting grounds with its lovely square, buildings and monuments, especially Khalil Gibran Memorial, learn some quotes by Khalil Gibran (Author of The Prophet, translated into more than 100 languages, making it one of the most translated books in history) . Afterward we headed to the historic North End. A short break for a snack from a famous North End pastry shop. Visit the Old North Church and Paul Revere's house, besides that, learn about the Great Molasses Flood, " the "Brink's Job" robbery and the "Skinny House” and so much more. The last stop of Freedom Trail is Charleston visiting USS Constitution and Bunker Hill Monument. We also drive through the new and vibrant Seaport District and along the beautiful Boston Harbor.

Our tour will cover the areas as below

- Boston Common & Public Garden

- State House ( stop for a photo )

- Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th Regiment

Memorial

- Boston Athenaeum

- Carrie Nation ( Speakeasy Bar )

- Granary Burial Ground

- Kings Chapel

- Old South Meeting house

- Irish Famine Memorial

- Old State house (stop for a photo)

- Faneuil Hall

- Beacon Hill

- Cheers Bar

- Acorn Street ( most photographed street in

US )

- Louisburg Square

- Back Bay

- Commonwealth Ave Mall

- Victorian brownstones, townhouses and

mansions

- Newbury Street

- Copley Square

- Trinity Church

- Boston Public Library

- Hancock Tower

- South Old Church

- North End ( Little Italy )

- Stop for Italian treats " cannoli " at local

bakery at Hanover St

- Old North Church (stop for visiting the

famous church)

- Paul Revere house ( a visits is an optional )

- Charleston

- USS Constitution ( ship is free to visit on a

first come, first serve basis )

- Bunker Hill (stop for a photo)

- Boston Harbor Area

- Rose Kennedy & Greenway

- Boston Tea Party Museum

- Seaport area ( harbor walk is an optional )

- Harpoon Brewery ( Optional )

- Fenway Park

I do my best to show you as many places as possible in 4 hours. I'll drive by at some sites, also I'll stop for photo and let you explore the site on your own or I explain the story of each sites. If you like to visit the site, I also give you a time for that. Easy going schedule and flexibility that you can always ask me where you would like to stop at.

As long as you stay at downtown hotel, I can pick up and drop off at any hotel, also at the cruise terminal, bus station ( South Station ) or metro station if that works or is convenient for you to meet up at any places in downtown.