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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Travel
Kate Hennessy

Walk this way: Australia’s urban tours find their feet by going niche

Culinary tour guide Sahar Elsemary holds a scoop of rice while talking to her tour guests in a supermarket.
Culinary tour guide Sahar Elsemary shares her knowledge of Merrylands’ Afghan and Syrian cuisines. Photograph: Blake Sharp-Wiggins/The Guardian

“A city is a language, a repository of possibilities,” wrote Rebecca Solnit in her 2002 book Wanderlust. “And walking is the act of speaking that language, of selecting from those possibilities.”

Solnit was writing about the act of walking, broadly, but could have been commenting on urban walking tours which, if you hadn’t noticed, have changed.

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