Audio Guide Category: walk

Keeping it Weird in the Pacific Northwest: Exploring Portland

Welcome to Portland where we love beer, locally sourced food and our hair dyed the colors of the rainbow. We count the PDX airport carpet among our local dignitaries, and our men wear tights. Portland’s official motto, Keep Portland Weird, might h…

Minorities In Chinatown

In the early colonial years, Chinatown was predominantly occupied by Chinese immigrants. However, there were other ethnic minorities such as the Muslim Indians and Hindu Indians who co-existed with one another. This tour will take you to two national mo…

Welcome to L.A. : More Than Just a Pretty Face

The 2nd largest city in the United States, Los Angeles is both an easy city to label and a hard one to quantify. While mostly known for the entertainment it produces, Los Angeles has a rich and diverse history. The sprawling metropolis is home to over 1…

Los Ángeles (California)

It was founded the 4th of September in 1781 by the Spanish Felipe de Neve. After the war of independence of Mexico, it was integrated as part of Mexico, but years later it became part of the United States of America. It was incorporated into the U.S.A. …

An ‘Old Fashioned’ Los Angeles

All Photographs are my own.  Downtown Los Angeles is rich in social and architectural history- An ‘Old Fashioned’ Los Angeles is a walking tour of historical buildings and cocktails. It is intended to immerse the tour-goer into wha…

Siena e le Vie dell’Acqua

In the Middle Ages, the Sienese government gave particular attention to the administration and distribution of the water intended for the whole city. The lack of a vital element for any kind of life brought the Sienese engineers to create some waterways…

Siena

Siena is a city of remarkable and unique world heritage, with its historical and artistic masterpieces, landscape and medieval architecture, local cuisine and famous bareback horse race – the Palio.It is one of the most visited cities in Italy, we…

Lane Cove Remembers

Did you know the names of over 20 streets and places in the Lane Cove area have been named after people who have a connection to World War 1? Find out the streets and their connection via a specially prepared audio guide. A red poppy will be fixed to th…

People and Places in Early Glebe

This walk will take you through some of the earliest business and residential areas of Glebe, where the young colony of Sydney gradually spread westward during the nineteenth century. You will hear something of the social history of that time, and the c…

Early Architects of Glebe

Welcome to the early architects walk in Glebe. Glebe was once known as “the architects’ suburb”. In the 19th century, a number of prominent Sydney architects lived here. They found it both attractive and profitable. Some worked largely in the area…

Rock and Roll walk of Fame and Shame: City to Pyrmont

From the fashionable heights and desperate depths of downtown Sydney’s music heritage, we traverse the city centre and discover what remains of our favorite venues; then we cross to the streets of ultimo and prymont and visit the site of the world…

Masonic Sites of Sydney

In the beginning Sydney is a wonderful city. Its sparkling harbour, its bridge and its famous Opera House are recognised the world over and represent, in the minds of many, the gateway to Australia. Sydney is the mother city of the nation. Here is where…

Focus on Furniture

This tour offers a behind-the-scenes look at the furniture designers and makers based in and around Sydney’s creative centre – Surry Hills. Australia’s manufacturing industry lacks the manufacturing tradition of Italy or Scandinavia. But this make…

Marrickville: Carrington Rd Industrial Heritage

Travel through 100 years of industrial history in just 700 metres on this walking tour of Carrington Road. You’ll hear about industry leaders, innovators, and entrepreneurs and their role in corporations large and small, mergers and acquisitions a…

Sydney’s Walsh Bay – Sculpture Walk

Over recent years Walsh Bay has grown to become Sydney’s culture, art and entertainment hub. Today the precinct boasts the Walsh Bay Sculpture Walk, which includes works from Jimmie Durham’s head-turning Still Life With Stone and Car through to Phil…

A Walk through Historic Honolulu

Welcome to Honolulu, the capital of Hawaii. It was the economic and political center of the island chain way before 1959, when it became the most recent U.S. state. Hawaiian King Kamehameha III made Honolulu his permanent capital in the 1840s. His succe…

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