Thursday, February 09, 2006

Free iPod Tour Guides

I've compiled a list of guided museum and walking tours. All of these were professionally recorded and available for free. I plan to keep this list updated – if you know more sites, please send me the links. By the way, the pictures in this post are mine again:


Walking & Museum Tours

Amsterdam, Holland
Indonesia exhibition at De Nieuwe Kerk Museum (Antenna Audio)

Brussels, Belgium
Podguide Tour (Podguides.net) - Map

Chicago, USA
Millennium Park (Antenna Audio)

Dublin, Ireland
Series of Walking Tours (Visit Dublin)

The Dune Forests, Belgium
Podguide Tour (Podguides.net) - Map

Edinburgh, Scotland
Series of Walking Tours (Visit Scotland)

Ghent, Belgium
Historical Monuments of Ghent (Podguides.net) - Map

Glasgow, Scotland
Rough Guide (iToors) - Includes a great indie music walking tour

Kent, England
Sibton Park (Podguides.net) - Map

Las Vegas, USA
City Profile (Budget Travel)

London, England
Rough Guide (iToors)
Garden Trails (Antenna Audio)
House Trails (Antenna Audio)
Neighborhoods (City Profile (Budget Travel)

New York, USA
Metropolitan Museum of Art / Museum of Modern Art (Slate)
Metropolitan Museum of Art
(FIT's Smart History)
Museum of Modern Art (MOMA.org)
Museum of Modern Art (Art Mobs)
Rockefeller Center (Sounds for Sights)

New Zealand
Dozens of Guides for Entire Country (Day Out) - This actually costs a $9 yearly fee, but probably worth it for the quantity of material in here. Most audiotours cost at least $10 per tour.

Opal Coast, France
Podguide (Podguides) - Map

Paris, France
Rough Guide (iToors)
The Louvre (Le Monde) - In french

Prague, Czech Republic
Rough Guide (iToors)

Rome, Italy
The Coliseum, the Pantheon, Circus Maximus (Italy Guides)


Quebec City, Canada
City Profile (Budget Travel)

San Francisco, USA
North Beach, DeYoung Museum, Inner Sunset's 9th Ave (SF Gate)
SFMOMA (SFMOMA)

Santa Monica, USA
Rough Guides (iToors)

Washington DC, USA
DC Memorials (Slate)

More:
An index of museum tourguides is available at Soundwalk has some very interesting tours for new york neighborhoods and other locations, such as India. They are $15, the going rate for audiotours, but focus on unique topics like Bronx Graffiti and DUMBO.


Podcasts & Soundseeing
Two high quality podcasts that focus on many different cities are iPod Traveller and Rick Steve's radio show. Learn Out Loud has a category has a category for travel podcasts and there are a number of good ones.

Soundseeing tours are audio tour that uses the ambient noise and the descriptions by the tour guide to give the listener an accurate depiction of the surroundings. There are many soundseeing podcasts of varying quality. Audiocollective and Soundseeing Tours are two aggregators that identify the best.

iPod Notes
Several sites have used the iPod notes function to create city guidebooks. The WCities guides are very thorough. My City Mate lets you customize the notes - it's also a social networking site that encourages you to add your reviews and create city "tribes" for more tips. IprepPress also created several city guides based upon information from WikiTravel. All of these are free.


Books
Michael Palin's excellent travel books can be read for free on his webpage.

8 comments:

Wynn Williamson said...

Another free NYC Podcast, Rockefeller Center from Sounds For Sight.

I remember going to Rockefeller center as a kid, ice-skating under the Christmas tree, eating roasted chestnuts, watching parents get into fist fights with each other. The memories.

Anonymous said...

Three more free city podcasts/audio guides for Paris, London and Barcelona from www.iAudioguide.com (each 12-15 tracks and city map).

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Anonymous said...

Another good free cityguide to download is http://www.podcityguides.com/. You can choose from guides for over 300 cities in 70 countries.

Anonymous said...

Another great site is Audioguide2go at
www.audioguide2go.com
which is a free portal to all the mp3 downloadable audio guides walks and tours on the web.
They currently have a wide range for the Uk and are about to launch worldwide.They have both traditional and quirky tours and include town,cities,and country and nature walks and tours.
You can download and review each tour. Some are free and others incur a charge

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