Adelaide City Guide - Tours of the City

Adelaide is a pleasant city for walking and one way to experience it is with Tourabout Adelaide (tel: (08) 8333 1111; website: www.touraboutadelaide.com.au) on a Discover Adelaide's Heritage Guided Walk. A company guide will show you around the galleries, museums and hidden-away treasures on North Terrace, the restored shopping arcades on Rundle Mall, the heritage buildings in and around Victoria Square, and the colourful Central Market.

Adelaide Sightseeing (tel: (08) 8413 6199; website: www.adelaidesightseeing.com.au) offers a 3-hour morning coach tour of the city, including visits to Haigh's Chocolate Factory and the beachside suburb of Glenelg. Meanwhile, Grayline Tours (tel: 1300 858 687; website: www.grayline.com.au), also run a similar tour, as well as extended options to visit the nearby Adelaide Hills, or the German-influenced Hahndorf.

The Adelaide Explorer Bus (tel: (08) 8293 2966; website: www.adelaideexplorer.com.au) stops at all the main sights around the city on a hop-on, hop-off basis. The loop of the city takes around 3 hours. Adelaide's Top Food And Wine Tours (tel: (08) 8263 0265; website: www.topfoodandwinetours.com.au) focuses entirely on Central Market, offering both dawn and mid-morning tours of the stalls.