Belfast: Black Taxi Mural Tour & Peace Wall with Local Guide

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Duration1h 30m

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LanguagesEN

PickupAt your hotel

The murals tell the story — a local driver in a black taxi shows you what they mean

You ride in a black taxi with an accredited local guide through Falls Road and Shankill Road, seeing the International Wall, Bobby Sands mural, and the Peace Wall that divides the neighborhoods. The guide explains the conflict from 1969 to the present, adjusting the pace and stops based on your questions. Hotel pickup and drop-off are included, and you can add your name to the Peace Wall if you choose.

1h 30m

Step-by-step itinerary

Local Black Taxi Tour of Belfast

Guided tour of Falls Road murals
Visit Divis area and Bombay Street Memorial
Travel along Belfast Peace Wall
Add name to the Peace Wall (optional)
Explore Shankill Road murals
Visit Shankill Memorial Garden

The Experience

The black taxi is already moving when you climb in, weaving through Belfast streets toward Falls Road. Your guide — someone who lived through the years they're about to explain — points out the first mural before you've even asked a question. This isn't a bus full of tourists stopping at marked viewpoints. It's one cab, a handful of people, and someone who knows the difference between what a mural says and what it actually means. The tour covers the conflict from 1969 to now, moving between Falls Road and Shankill Road, the two neighborhoods that define Belfast's recent history.

Falls Road comes first. You'll see the International Wall, the Hunger Strike mural, the Bombay Street memorial — each one tied to a specific moment your guide lived through or watched unfold. The world's largest outdoor art gallery, they call it, and the scale hits you when you're standing in front of it. Time in each location depends on how much you want to talk, how many questions you ask. Some groups spend twenty minutes at one wall; others move faster. Your guide reads the room and adjusts. After Falls Road, the taxi crosses into Shankill, where the murals tell a different political story — Loyalist and Unionist history, expressed in the same urgent, detailed way.

The Peace Wall is the third major stop. It's the physical barrier that still separates the two neighborhoods, and if you want to, you can add your name to it, the way thousands of visitors have done. It's a strange thing to do — writing your name on a wall built to keep people apart — but it happens. The whole tour runs on the pace of conversation. There's no script, no fixed timing. Your guide responds to what you're curious about, and that's what makes it different from a standard black taxi mural tour in Belfast.

What’s included

Your tour includes free hotel or city area pickup and drop-off, a guided journey through Falls Road and Shankill Road with an accredited local guide, visits to the International Wall, Hunger Strike mural, Bobby Sands mural, Bombay Street memorial, and the Peace Wall, plus commentary on Belfast's conflict history from 1969 to the present day.

Good to know

Easy physical levelWheelchair accessibleAccessible transportStroller friendlyPets welcomePublic transport nearbyInfants must sit on laps

Operated by Hugh Jordan

Is this one for you?Choose this if you want to understand Belfast's recent history from someone who lived it, rather than from a standard tour script — the local guide adjusts the stops and timing to what you're actually curious about, which is what makes the difference.