A self-guided audio walking tour of Adelaide, Tarntanya, along North Terrace, across the River Torrens to North Adelaide and back to King William Street and Victoria Square. It starts at Holy Trinity, on the town acre Colonel Light's plan allotted to it, and follows the terrace past the railway station of 1928 and the two Parliament Houses, the old one of 1854–55 and its larger neighbour. By the river come the Elder Park Rotunda, cast at the Saracen Foundry in Glasgow and erected in 1882, Adelaide Oval, opened for cricket in 1873, Light's Vision, the bronze of Colonel Light unveiled in 1906 on Montefiore Hill, and St Peter's Cathedral, built from 1869 to 1904. Back on North Terrace the walk passes Government House, the Boer War Memorial, the National War Memorial, the Migration Museum in the Lying-in Home of 1878, the State Library of 1884, the South Australian Museum, the Art Gallery, Bonython Hall and Ayers House, the bluestone mansion of Sir Henry Ayers. It ends on King William Street with Edmund Wright House, the Town Hall, whose balcony the Beatles stood on, the General Post Office, Victoria Square, Tarntanyangga, the heart of Light's plan, St Francis Xavier's Cathedral and the Supreme Court.
23 narrations, yours to keep — no subscription, no expiry. Works offline once downloaded, and if it isn’t for you we’ll refund it.
Going somewhere with no signal? Put the guide on your home screen first, then download it from that icon while you are on wi-fi — that way you download once, and it works in airplane mode with no roaming charges. Show me the order →
Every claim in this tour traces back to a named source — excavation records, the heritage authority for the site, and the primary texts themselves. Nothing is copied from other guidebooks, and anything we can't source doesn't make the recording.
Each stop is built from OpenStreetMap · 157 features in this old town (the field-surveyed mapping database behind Apple Maps), Wikidata · 45 cross-referenced entries (peer-reviewed structured records), the heritage authority below, and the primary historical texts where they exist.
Cross-referenced against Modern excavation publications · academic peer-review.
Every sentence is checked against those sources before it is recorded. If a claim can't be traced, it doesn't make the audio.
Every tour is reviewed by a person before it goes on sale. Stop selection, the route and anything ambiguous come back to the editor for a decision, and those questions routinely send a stop back for another accuracy pass. Nothing publishes on a machine’s say-so.
Spot anything inaccurate? Email [email protected] — fixed in the next pass.
Holy Trinity, Adelaide Railway Station, Old Parliament House, Parliament House, Elder Park Rotunda, Adelaide Oval, Light's Vision, St Peter's Cathedral.
Government House, Boer War Memorial, National War Memorial, Migration Museum South Australia, State Library of South Australia, South Australian Museum, Art Gallery of South Australia, Bonython Hall, Ayers House - National Trust.
Edmund Wright House, Adelaide Town Hall, General Post Office, Victoria Square, St Francis Xavier's Cathedral, Supreme Court.
Sir Thomas Elder's cast-iron bandstand, made at Macfarlane's Saracen Foundry in Glasgow and erected beside Torrens Lake in 1882.
The cricket ground on the park lands between the river and North Adelaide, opened for cricket in December 1873.
William Birnie Rhind's bronze of Colonel William Light, unveiled on Montefiore Hill in 1906.
The museum of migration and settlement, housed around a courtyard in buildings that include the Lying-in Home of 1878.
The bluestone mansion on North Terrace, enlarged step by step to show the wealth and standing of Sir Henry Ayers.
Tarntanyangga, the central square of Colonel Light's 1836–1837 plan for Adelaide.
Tap "Start Walking Tour" and allow location access. The map shows all 23 narration points.
Follow the suggested route or explore freely. GPS tracks your position. Reach a site and the narration plays automatically.
Each site has its own narration. 23 narration points.
Narrations play when you reach each site. No buttons, no track numbers. Walk naturally — the stories find you.
Premium narration that sounds like a documentary. Warm and knowledgeable, not a textbook reading.
Every narration is drafted, cross-checked against primary sources, then passed through a second editorial pass that strips unsupported claims. Dates, names, and citations verified.
See all narration points on the map. Tap any point to hear it early or replay it later.
Every narrated point in Adelaide — North Terrace, Victoria Square and the Torrens, each with its own narration.
Spend an hour or a full day. Skip sites, revisit favourites, take breaks. The tour adapts to you.
23 narration points, including Holy Trinity, Adelaide Railway Station, Old Parliament House, Parliament House and Elder Park Rotunda. That is about 43 minutes of narration in all, and you walk between the stops at your own pace.
Yes. It plays in your phone’s browser as you walk: no guide, no group, no app to install and no fixed start time.
Three ways, all built in:
The map-tap option means you can stand anywhere — even at home before you travel — and play any narration. GPS just makes it hands-free while you’re actually walking the site.
No. Use the “Download for offline” button before you go, and the entire tour — audio, maps, narration text — works without any data connection. Tap-to-play and the map both work fully offline. GPS itself doesn’t need data; only the download does.
Add the icon first, then download from the icon. On iPhone a guide downloaded in Safari cannot be seen by the home screen icon, so downloading first means downloading the whole thing twice.
Putting it on your home screen — iPhone or iPad (Safari):
On Android (Chrome): tap the three-dot menu at the top right, tap Add to Home screen (some phones say Install app), then confirm. On Android either order works.
If you opened this link from inside Instagram, Facebook or Gmail, you are in that app’s built-in browser. It cannot add anything to your home screen, and a guide downloaded there is thrown away when the app closes. Open the link in Safari or Chrome first.
Two backstops. First, the map shows every site — just tap the marker for the place in front of you. Second, you can manually queue any narration even when GPS is off. The platform never assumes GPS works; it’s the convenience layer, not the gate.
The audio runs ~2–3 hours total, but you walk at your own pace. 23 narration points across the site. Most visitors take 2–4 hours; some spread it over multiple visits. Once you buy it, it’s yours — there’s no expiry and no subscription. Come back next year if you like; the link in your receipt always works.
One purchase covers one device session. Most couples share earbuds and use a single phone — the audio is paced for that. If you want everyone listening on their own device, each person needs their own purchase. We do not gate sharing aggressively; we trust visitors to do the right thing.
Full refund if you never trigger a single narration on-site. Partial refund based on how far you got. See the refund policy for specifics.