If you want to pack all the highlights of LA into a relatively short visit, or simply want the benefit of having a local expert guide you through the many different attractions during your stay, then booking a selection of Los Angeles tours will allow you to get much more out of your visit than you would otherwise.

Perhaps the best known selection of Los Angeles tours is related to the movies. IN Hollywood you can pick up any number of guided tours that will take you to the settings of all of your favorite movies. You will get the chance to see the places from movies including Beverley Hills Cops, Falling Down, and Rebel without a Cause amongst others.

Highlights of these sights of the films tours include iconic buildings like the Hollywood police building, the Griffith Observatory, and of course the ocean front at Venice Beach. Memorable sights that you have seen many times on the silver screen.

Other very popular Los Angeles tours related to the movies are the houses of the stars excursions. Typically, these tours begin in Hollywood and take you up into Beverley Hills, Bel Air, and other upscale neighborhoods where you will be able to see the luxurious and palatial houses owned by movie stars and musicians.

Other great Los Angeles tours offer a slightly different experience from the movies include guided trips into the mountains around the city. Here you will be able to get away from the heat and bustle of the city streets and enjoy some fresh air and the dry Santa Ana breeze coming in from the desert. In the hills, the city is almost completely obscured behind the escarpments, allowing you to believe that you are in the wilderness.

A guided tour with a local expert will be able to include some of the local wildlife and you may well see coyotes and other animals that you might well miss out on without the assistance of an expert who knows where to go to see the best wildlife – it really is a Los Angeles tour with a difference, and will introduce you to an entirely different side of the city that you might otherwise never have imagined could exist so close to the urban sprawl.