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Browse self-guided audio walking tours with route facts, stop lists, walking times, access notes, and a free first stop before you buy.
51 tours
Chiang Mai Province, Thailand
An audio walk across the moated old city of Chiang Mai, from its east gate past temples, a teak hall and a broken great chedi to the temple of the lion Buddha.
9 stops · 2.9 km (1.8 mi) · about 100 min
Luang Prabang Province, Laos
An audio walk up the main street of Luang Prabang, past its monasteries, the royal palace and the sacred hill, to the point where its two rivers meet.
9 stops · 2.4 km (1.5 mi) · about 90 min
İzmir, Turkey
Ephesus was the Roman capital of Asia — a marble port city of temples, fountains, and a library built over its founder's tomb, home to perhaps the largest urban population on the Aegean's eastern shore.
12 stops · 2 km (1.2 mi) · about 120 min
Ma'an Governorate, Jordan
An audio walk through Petra, from the tombs at Bab as Siq down the narrow gorge of the Siq to the carved front of the Treasury, and on through the Nabataean city to the temple of Qasr al Bint.
11 stops · 4 km (2.5 mi) · about 165 min
Paphos District, Cyprus
An audio walk through the upper town of Paphos, from the market and a mosque that was once a church to the bishops' cathedral and the edge of the bluff.
10 stops · 2.8 km (1.7 mi) · about 95 min
Canary Islands, Spain
An audio walk through Las Palmas, from the camp Castilian soldiers pitched by a ravine in 1478 to the merchants' quarter that grew across it.
11 stops · 2.3 km (1.4 mi) · about 95 min
Canary Islands, Spain
An audio walk through La Laguna on Tenerife, a town laid out by design next to a lake now gone, from the Adelantado's square to the cathedral.
10 stops · 3 km (1.9 mi) · about 95 min
Emirate of Dubai, United Arab Emirates
An audio walk through old Dubai, from the wind tower lanes of Al Fahidi past the fort and through the souq, then by abra across the creek to the spice souq.
8 stops · 1.9 km (1.2 mi) · about 80 min
Muscat Governorate, Oman
An audio walk along the bay of Mutrah, the old harbour town of Muscat, from the fish market through the souq and below the fort to the watchtowers of Riyam.
10 stops · 3 km (1.9 mi) · about 90 min
Amman Governorate, Jordan
An audio walk through Amman, from the Ammonite hill of the Citadel and its Roman and Umayyad ruins down to the Roman Theatre, the old Roman fountain, the town's great mosque and the street where the capital of 1921 grew up.
11 stops · 2.5 km (1.6 mi) · about 100 min
Jerash Governorate, Jordan
An audio walk through ancient Gerasa, from the arch raised for Hadrian's visit through the South Gate and the Oval Plaza and up the colonnaded street to the churches, the temple of Artemis and the North Theatre.
11 stops · 2.5 km (1.6 mi) · about 150 min
Luxor Governorate, Egypt
An audio walk on Luxor's West Bank, from the village of the royal tomb builders at Deir el Medina down the road to the fortress temple of Ramesses III at Medinet Habu.
11 stops · 2.4 km (1.5 mi) · about 100 min
Luxor Governorate, Egypt
An audio walk through Luxor, from the Winter Palace on the Nile past Luxor Temple and the souq, beside the dug out Avenue of Sphinxes to the gate of Karnak.
10 stops · 3.5 km (2.2 mi) · about 95 min
Cairo Governorate, Egypt
An audio walk through Cairo, down al Muizz Street from the northern gate of the old walled city past a sultan's hospital, the bazaar and al Azhar to the southern gate.
10 stops · 2.1 km (1.3 mi) · about 110 min
Tanger-Tetouan-Al Hoceima, Morocco
An audio walk through Tangier, from the Grand Socco and the Mendoubia gardens through the legations of the old town to the Kasbah above the Strait.
10 stops · 2 km (1.2 mi) · about 100 min
Marrakech-Safi, Morocco
An audio walk through Essaouira, from the fishing harbour and the sea gate through the merchants' Kasbah and the Jewish quarter to the caravan gate.
10 stops · 2.5 km (1.6 mi) · about 100 min
Marrakech-Safi, Morocco
An audio walk through Marrakech, from the booksellers' mosque through the royal kasbah and the Jewish quarter to the storytellers' square.
10 stops · 3 km (1.9 mi) · about 120 min
Oeste, Portugal
An audio walk through Óbidos, from a queen's aqueduct through the town gate and up the main street to the castle, ending at a painter's grave.
10 stops · 1.4 km (0.9 mi) · about 80 min
Lisbon, Portugal
An audio walk through Sintra, from the railway station past the palace of the two chimneys and the bakers' lane to the field at Seteais the town kept open.
9 stops · 2 km (1.2 mi) · about 100 min
Alentejo, Portugal
An audio walk inside Évora's walls, from the Giraldo square past the Chapel of Bones and the Roman temple to the aqueduct people built their houses into.
9 stops · 2.5 km (1.6 mi) · about 100 min
Centro, Portugal
An audio walk through Coimbra, from the first king's tomb up to the university on the hill and down past two cathedrals to the river.
11 stops · 3.1 km (1.9 mi) · about 110 min
Porto, Portugal
An audio walk through Porto's Ribeira, from the tiled hall of São Bento up to the bishop's cathedral, down the old wall to the Douro, and back up the goldsmiths' street.
11 stops · 2.2 km (1.4 mi) · about 130 min
Lisbon, Portugal
An audio walk through Alfama, the Lisbon quarter named for its hot springs, from the saint's birthplace over the old wall and down the lanes to the fountains by the river.
11 stops · 2.9 km (1.8 mi) · about 140 min
Istanbul, Turkey
A self-guided audio tour along the Golden Horn through Fener and Balat, the quarters where Istanbul's Greeks, Jews, Armenians and Bulgarians were allowed to build, and what they left behind.
11 stops · 3.1 km (1.9 mi) · about 150 min
Puglia, Italy
A self-guided audio tour through Lecce's Roman remains, Baroque churches, carved limestone, and Adriatic defenses.
9 stops · 2.3 km (1.4 mi) · about 115 min
Basilicata, Italy
Matera's Sassi are two hollows of cave-houses carved into a ravine wall, inhabited from prehistory, emptied by law in the 1950s, and now the first UNESCO World Heritage site in southern Italy.
9 stops · 2.3 km (1.4 mi) · about 120 min
Puglia, Italy
Bari spent a thousand years being handed back and forth across the Adriatic — Byzantine capital, Saracen emirate, Norman duchy — and made a saint of the traffic.
9 stops · 2 km (1.2 mi) · about 110 min
Puglia, Italy
Alberobello's old town is built almost entirely of trulli — conical houses of dry limestone, laid without a drop of mortar.
9 stops · 1.9 km (1.2 mi) · about 95 min
Puglia, Italy
Otranto is the easternmost town in Italy — a whitewashed, walled port that for a thousand years faced Byzantium and the Balkans across a seventy- kilometre strait, not Rome.
8 stops · 1.5 km (0.9 mi) · about 90 min
Fès-Meknès, Morocco
A self-guided audio tour of Volubilis, from Roman houses and mosaics to olive presses, civic monuments, and later archaeological layers.
11 stops · 1.3 km (0.8 mi) · about 85 min
Fès-Meknès, Morocco
Meknes is two cities pressed together: an older trading medina and the immense royal capital Moulay Ismail drove into its southern edge.
10 stops · 3.2 km (2 mi) · about 150 min
Rabat-Salé-Kénitra, Morocco
Rabat carries two capital projects in the same walk: Ya'qub al-Mansur's twelfth-century vision, left legible in walls, gates and an unfinished mosque, and the twentieth-century administrative city laid beside the medina.
11 stops · 5.2 km (3.2 mi) · about 165 min
Fès-Meknès, Morocco
Fez el-Bali is not a museum quarter but a living city folded into a steep river valley.
10 stops · 2.4 km (1.5 mi) · about 135 min
Casablanca-Settat, Morocco
Casablanca is often treated as a twentieth-century city, but this walk tests that claim against what survives: a planned civic centre, a working market, a repeatedly altered medina, and religious buildings restored or rebuilt after rupture.
9 stops · 4.2 km (2.6 mi) · about 145 min
Tanger-Tétouan-Al Hoceïma, Morocco
Chefchaouen was built in 1471 as a fortress-refuge by people driven out of Spain, and for four and a half centuries it kept the world out — the Westerners who saw inside before 1920 came in disguise, and one stayed barely an hour.
10 stops · 1.4 km (0.9 mi) · about 110 min
Andalusia, Spain
Seville is an inland river port where, for over two centuries, the Crown registered every cargo of the American trade — and the city is what that monopoly built, then left behind.
11 stops · 2.9 km (1.8 mi) · about 150 min
Andalusia, Spain
Around the year 950, Córdoba was the seat of a caliphate that built itself to rival Constantinople, Damascus and Baghdad — and then tore itself apart within a lifetime.
11 stops · 3.2 km (2 mi) · about 150 min
Andalusia, Spain
Everyone climbs the Albaicín to look at the Alhambra.
12 stops · 2.9 km (1.8 mi) · about 150 min
Andalusia, Spain
Ronda sits on the flat top of a rock, and for most of its history its water was a hundred metres below.
11 stops · 2.7 km (1.7 mi) · about 150 min
Andalusia, Spain
Cádiz began as Gadir — an enclosure on a small Atlantic island — and has spent almost three thousand years changing what its walls were for.
11 stops · 3.2 km (2 mi) · about 150 min
Andalusia, Spain
Málaga's centre is full of structures that survived by changing jobs.
10 stops · 2.3 km (1.4 mi) · about 125 min
Sicily, Italy
Palermo's oldest street was traced when the city was founded and runs dead straight from the high ground down to the water.
12 stops · 3.9 km (2.4 mi) · about 165 min
Sicily, Italy
Catania is a city you read vertically.
9 stops · 2.6 km (1.6 mi) · about 135 min
Sicily, Italy
Taormina has one street, running between two gates along a shelf of Monte Tauro, and everything the town has ever been is arranged along it: a cathedral built like a fort, a fountain whose crowned half-horse woman is the town's emblem, a wall of Roman brick holding back a buried reservoir, and a palace where the Sicilian parliament sat in 1411.
8 stops · 1.9 km (1.2 mi) · about 130 min
Sicily, Italy
Agrigento's temples did not survive by standing still.
10 stops · 2.5 km (1.6 mi) · about 150 min
Sicily, Italy
In 1131 Roger II moved this town down off its rock and began a cathedral on the shore — a fortified church that was also to be his own mausoleum, and far too big for the settlement it stood in.
8 stops · 2.6 km (1.6 mi) · about 165 min
Istanbul, Turkey
A self-guided audio tour through Sultanahmet, from the Hippodrome’s reused monuments and Hagia Sophia to the gate of Topkapı.
9 stops · 2.1 km (1.3 mi) · about 140 min
Bukhara Region, Uzbekistan
Bukhara got rich carrying the world's goods and spent the money on holiness — minarets, madrasas and mausoleums built beside the bazaars that paid for them.
11 stops · 3.1 km (1.9 mi) · about 150 min
Samarkand Region, Uzbekistan
Timur conquered half of Asia and marched its best craftsmen home to build his capital — a city meant to make every visitor feel the size of the empire.
9 stops · 3 km (1.9 mi) · about 140 min
Xorazm Region, Uzbekistan
Khiva was the last oasis before the desert and the last khanate to fall — a 19th-century boom city in medieval dress, paid for by caravan tolls and the largest slave market in Central Asia, then frozen whole when the Soviets turned it into a museum.
10 stops · 1.8 km (1.1 mi) · about 130 min
Lombardy, Italy
Milan has repeatedly made power visible, then changed the meaning of the same streets and monuments.
8 stops · 3.2 km (2 mi) · about 115 min