TODO SOBRE TURISTA LIBRE
Turista Libre (Free Tourist) is a series of atypical international day tours in Tijuana, Mexico, a caravan that trounces around the city in search of the overlooked and underrated. No narco warfare. No strolls down hooker row. No donkey shows. No gringo stereotypes. Lo mejor del alternaturismo.
Itineraries take their inspiration from various iconic TJ pastimes. Wasting pesos on dog races and slot machines at the Hippodrome. Screaming with the hooligans at a Xoloitzcuintles game, Tijuana’s pro soccer team. Screaming with little old ladies at a lucha libre match. Parks. Record stores. Architecture oddities. Thrift stores. Dive bars. Piñata factories. 
Each excursion includes a food stop and a bar stop, both relevant to whatever the tour’s theme happens to be. Soccer game, sports bar. Wrestling match, tackier sports bar.
We wind up experiencing pieces of TJ the average foreigner rarely sees — a back-alley swap meet, a day of museum hopping or a locals-only dive bar buffet — and everyone goes home wondering (border waits, the language barrier and secondhand fears aside) why they don’t visit this city — the second largest on the North American West Coast, outsized only by Los Angeles — more often.
Our mission: To get foreigners into Tijuana but away from Revolucion. To introduce them to the side of the city their local counterparts live on a daily basis. To live for a day as a local in a city that was built for tourists.
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