Nobody has mentioned any of the Walking Tours that depart from the Royal Mile just by St. Giles High Kirk. Most of these give a different perspective of the city and many visit the vaults down below, where the poorest used to live and work in total darkness.

On that theme there is also Mary King's Close just up from City Chambers which is a story of how o of the closes and its inhabitants got bricked in when they became victims of a plague (no innoculation required these days).