
Experience the underbelly of Tel Aviv
Insightful. Exclusive. Exploratory Tours & Experiences
Insightful. Exclusive. Exploratory Tours & Experiences
Roll up your sleeves and dive into Tel Aviv’s urban grit and Mediterranean culture with a street photography experience that will show you the cultural pulse and urban core of the city whilst snapping away at street scenes and locales known best by its denizens. Tel Aviv Street Photography experience will arm participants with a 35mm point and shoot film camera, and bring them to the city's most iconic architectural, cultural and fashionable arteries along the infamous Tel Aviv street over a two-hour urban walking excursion led by an expert local photographer and developing your roll of film following the tour completion. Length: 2 Hours
Avoid being herded like cattle into generic nightlife spots geared towards tourists and without local insight. Eager Tourist Local's Only Nightlife Tours include a curated list of top events, homegrown happenings and parties taking place in the city on any given day, that are advertised to locals only. Eager Tourist will dispatch a Tel Aviv nightlife expert to guide groups past the lines, cues and into hidden parties and new and innovative nightlife spots according to the tastes and interests of each guest or group.
Length: 3 Hours
Break through the barrier of artist-observer as often predicated in static studio spaces with Eager Tourist Art Scene Immersions, a new model offering insider visits and meetings into exclusive workspaces of the artists themselves, creating meaningful interaction and engaging conversations based on new and personal bodies of work. Forgo standard art gallery tours and enter the private studios, design and workspaces of Tel Aviv's fleet of emerging homegrown talent.
Length: Two Hours
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Start your day with an insider’s tour of the three of Tel Aviv’s most prominent & vibrant outdoor food markets, led by an Israeli culinary expert. Meet a boutique beer artisan and visit a robust café that roasts it’s own coffee beans. Satiate upon tastings at Tel Aviv eateries, bakeries and specialty shops nestled throughout neighborhoods throughout the markets Sample, taste and feast upon the traditional Greek, Arabic, Turkish, Persian, Moroccan and Yemen food delicacies that comprise modern Israeli culinary cuisine today.
Length: 2 Hours
View spectacular Bauhaus and Eclectic architecture buildings in Tel Aviv and trace the city's original urban design by Sir Patrick Geddes from an insider's perspective, guided by city certified-architects and local experts themselves. Our insider's architecture tour will incorporate various elements of architecture in Tel Aviv, from the current boom of contemporary architecture and rapid urbanization to the architectural origins of Colonial and Ottoman architecture-style buildings in Jaffa and Tel Aviv. Enter and explore a wide-range of internationally-influenced structures in and around Tel Aviv, all through the perspective of locals who best know the city.
Length: 2 Hours
With its pulsing dance music scene, intoxicating natural wine bars and exotic Eastern European flare, Tbilisi is a thriving urban gem that has been kept under wraps until now. Bringing you into the heart of the Georgian capital city’s buzzed about nightlife scene, Eager Tourist Tbilisi nightlife tour connects you with expert local nightowls and party-goers for a hyperlocal and custom crafted crawl that brings you to the best wine bars, local hangouts, nightclubs, music venues and private parties that aren’t advertised to foreigners. With our Tbilisi Local's Only Nightlife Tour, Eager Tourist brings the authentic and locally-known Tbilisi to your very fingertips.
The Eager Tourist Tbilisi nightlife tour includes:
*Visits to three or four establishments as curated by our Tbilisi nightlife ambassador, starting with chill and downtempo stops and ending with a party at whichever location is deemed best on any given night
*Expert guidance and insight about Tbilisi along the way led by a local Tbilisi native *Complimentary Georgian beer or natural wine at each location
*Selection of Small bites or tapas (Khachapuri, Sulguni cheese, Pkhali salad, Mchadi bread) at one of the locations along the way
*Walking through Tbilisi’s most vibrant neighborhoods at night, meeting locals along the way
*Complimentary beer, Georgian cha-cha or wine at each location visited
Length: Three hours
With its pulsing dance music scene, intoxicating natural wine bars and exotic Eastern European flare, Tbilisi is a thriving urban gem that has been kept under wraps until now. Bringing you into the heart of the Georgian capital city’s buzzed about nightlife scene, Eager Tourist Tbilisi nightlife tour connects you with expert local nightowls and party-goers for a hyperlocal and custom crafted crawl that brings you to the best wine bars, local hangouts, nightclubs, music venues and private parties that aren’t advertised to foreigners. With our Tbilisi Local's Only Nightlife Tour, Eager Tourist brings the authentic and locally-known Tbilisi to your very fingertips.
The Eager Tourist Tbilisi nightlife tour includes:
*Visits to three or four establishments as curated by our Tbilisi nightlife ambassador, starting with chill and downtempo stops and ending with a party at whichever location is deemed best on any given night
*Expert guidance and insight about Tbilisi along the way led by a local Tbilisi native *Complimentary Georgian beer or natural wine at each location
*Selection of Small bites or tapas (Khachapuri, Sulguni cheese, Pkhali salad, Mchadi bread) at one of the locations along the way
*Walking through Tbilisi’s most vibrant neighborhoods at night, meeting locals along the way
*Complimentary beer, Georgian cha-cha or wine at each location visited
Length: Three hours
As the ember dashes across the boat floor, the ocean whispers its last breathe. Is this really happening?
“Isn’t it at war?” a family friend asked me upon my explanation that I was off to work in Kosovo for three months. Twenty years have passed since the end of the 1999 war and Ten since Kosovo declared itself Europe’s newest state and yet its name still conjures up associations of war.
One night in Amsterdam a couple of years ago, tripping on hallucinogenics, it all became very clear. I was to travel to Mexico to see my dear friend Agustin.
With it’s golden, pine and peach-colored houses, the town is a photographer’s wet dream. Shunning aside thoughts of responsibilities, waves of anxiety lifted from my shoulders like the trail end of a storm, light beams abound. Close your eyes, and dream of another place you’d like to be in. I dream of Camogli.
In today’s modern hospitality landscape, there are hotels, and there are airbnbs. And then there are those special places that fall in between categories, where authenticity is a beckon of hope and intention is executed with accuracy.
I’ve always wanted to go to ODESSA. Something about this name, the way it’s spelled. The city’s Jewish history. I was also curious to see the Black Sea. I like things to be black.
India is a land of inherent beauty, of chaos, complexity and contradiction, within which lies unparalleled opportunity to explore, connect and engage with humanity and spirituality at points transcending high and low.
The rush of emotions swelling through my body every time I step foot in New York City is hard to describe. This time around felt no different.
" Arm yourself with hyper-local tips from Eager Tourist, and map out your itinerary for each day (I went neighborhood by neighborhood)." Annie Fitzsimmons, National Geographic Traveler
Eager Tourist is a way for people to experience Tel Aviv the way a local like Belfer does. Essentially it’s a travel concierge, offering a curated experience that serves to showcase the Tel Aviv most people who don’t live there get to see. It’s not simply a cookie-cutter solution either; Belfer creates various experiences for different tastes, whether the goal is to immerse yourself into the art scene, go on a rich and flavorful foodie tour, or dive into the nightlife. -Gautam Balasundar, A Hotel Life
For a week they traversed the country in the name of culinary adventure — and research. Their guide for that day in Tel Aviv, Eager Tourist, led them on a small-plates crawl of his favorite haunts. Sara Liss, Miami Herald
"Along with a cooking workshop with an esteemed local chef, this outfit organizes insider tours of Tel Aviv’s three most vibrant outdoor food markets—crossroads of all the countries in the region." Ann Abel, Forbes Travel
When we first met Ross Belfer (of Eager Tourist) on a noisy street corner in Tel Aviv, we could tell that he was tapped into the scene." Fathom Away editors
"For a tailor-made Tel Aviv travel experience we highly recommend leaving it to the professionals at Eager Tourist." Jeremy Berger, Gear Patrol Magazine
ABOUT EAGER TOURIST
Eager Tourist was founded in 2011 by travel photographer and publicist Ross Belfer. Based in Tel Aviv for six years after relocating from NYC, Belfer became inspired by his adopted city's buzzing cultural core to create hyperlocal experiences led by architects, chefs, artists and creatives within his milieu -- while simultaneously documenting his world travels solely with film cameras and a journal.
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Tel Aviv’s Central Bus Station is an architectural maze of epic proportions. Originally designed by Ram Carmi in 1967 as a futuristic emblem to serve the growing population of Tel Aviv, it has since existed as a Mecca of diversity where bric-a-brac vendors, culinary oddities and abandoned architectural marvels sit side by side throughout seven stories of banal delights. Inspired by Walter Benjamin's theory of casual wandering and dérive, the mid 1950's artistic movement of situationism, our White Elephant Tour explores a city within a city that is Tel Aviv's Central Bus Station.
Length: 2 Hours
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