Gibraltar Shore Excursion: The Original Rock, Shop & Caves Tour
Description
This is the most popular shore excursion in Gibaltar. Shop, see the famous rock and visit Europes only native cheeky apes in this half day small group tour.
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Itinerary
Our popular Gibraltar tour allows you to see Europa Point, known as the Pillars of Hercules. You will visit the Nature Reserve - which is home to the Barbary ape. One of the highlights of this tour is your visit to St. Michael's Cave and Princess Catherine's Battery before seeing the Moorish Castle's Tower of Homage. We will weave through tunnels with your local professional English-speaking guide to Europa Point, this is the southernmost point of Gibraltar, British Territory joining the Spanish mainland. Close to the cruise port is the Nearby is the supreme Gibraltar Rock a huge limestone measured at 1,398 feet above Sea level. The stunning views from the top are something that will last long in your memory (across the Strait of Gibraltar) toward northern Africa, where the Mons Abyla rock formation stands. Both rocks, the Rock of Gibraltar and the Mons Abyla, form the mythical Pillars of Hercules. The guide will explain how the legend of Hercules.
After the rock we head towards the Upper Rock and visit the popular Nature Reserve, here lives the famous Barbary Macaques Apes. Here you can enjoy interacting with the "Rock Apes".
We then head on into St. Michael's Cave. This beautiful limestone cave is 980 feet above sea level. The acoustics and general setting of the cave create a perfect setting for events or concerts. Next we visit the daughter of King George II, Princess Caroline's Battery. This was developed in 1732. It used to be a military building and helped cement Britain's claim to Gibraltar. We then view an aged Tower of Homage at the Moorish Castle to see its walls scarred by Spanish cannons during the siege years. To finish the tour off in style we head into the centre for some duty free shopping. This tour normally operates in small groups and it the number one choice for cruise lovers when porting in Gibraltar.
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What's included
Pickup Locations & Times
A voucher will come through at least 14 days before your cruise showing the exact meeting point and time to match your cruise lines porting times.
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Important Information
- Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
- At time of booking, Cruise ship passengers must provide the following information at time of booking: ship name, docking time, disembarkation time and re-boarding time
Reviews(51)
Gorgeous place is worth going our guide Clive was very helpful knowledgeable and friendly made the excursion funny
Our tour of the Rock of Gibraltar and St. Michael’s Cave was unforgettable. From the top of the Rock, you can see the meeting point of the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea, the coastline of Spain, and even Morocco across the water on a clear day it honestly feels like standing at the edge of two continents. Inside St. Michael’s Cave, the huge limestone formations and glowing chambers were absolutely breathtaking and unlike anything we’ve ever seen. Definitely one of the highlights of our trip! Just a word of caution - Walking inside the cave is dark in places and a little slippery
The tour company did not communicate basic information about the tour such as start time. I made numerous attempts to communicate with no response. The day of the tour the guide showed up late a travelers were left wondering if the tour they paid for was a scam. The tour guide was not prepared with a list of passengers. The rock of Gibraltar is worth experiencing but with another tour company. Having used Viator many times with positive experiences was surprised they would contract with such a bad tour company.
St. Michael's cave was incredibly beautiful, know that you will be walking around a damp, dark area but it was so worth if. Found some of the monkeys, listen to your guide they definitely know where to find them and the things you should do to stay safe. Our guide let us off at the old city so we could explore some and before walking back to the ship
The tour guide Peter was great, however the tour seemed quite rushed and was only about 1 1/2 hours as we left about 30 min late and got back at 2:25.
We had a fantastic guy that had a sense of humor, amazing driving skills, and his knowledge and history of the city was fabulous
The tour was longer than planned, but not in a bad way, as we got to see the tunnels in the rock of Gibraltar, which were not listed in the description. Good value for seeing the main features of the rock, though I would have liked to see more of the monkeys. Great value compared to an equivalent sure excursions.
Very quick tour of the main sites. Professional driver with excellent knowledge of Gibraltar and some humor thrown in.
Nice tour but a bit hasty with little to no time. Parking availability for tours are Extremely limited.
Great tour overall. Driver was 20 minutes late for our 1.5 hour tour which made it much shorter. He did not make up the time because he had another tour after ours. Driver was very informative. On a clear day you can see Africa but the clouds were very low so we didn't get to see it.
