Joining a guided city tour is a great way to explore a city or town. Your guide will show and talk about the history and culture of the town and you will gain a better understanding of the day to day life of the people in the town. The added bonus is that it saves you the time to go through your guide book just to learn that the statue that you have been looking at for the last hour, is in fact not a statue, but just a plain rock with no significant meaning.