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A self-guided audio tour of the Welsh colony in Patagonia, from the Puerto Madryn waterfront to Trelew and Gaiman, a long way inland; the drives are not narrated. It starts at the Monument to the Welsh Colonists, with the voyage of the Mimosa, which brought 153 Welsh settlers to this coast in 1865, their landing on 28 July, the dry valley of the Chubut River, the Tehuelche who taught them to hunt and traded guanaco meat for bread, and Rachel Jenkins's plan for irrigating the valley. At Punta Cuevas it reads the low cliff where the settlers made their first shelters, and the Museo del Desembarco beside it. In Trelew, named for the colony's organiser Lewis Jones, it visits the old railway station, the paleontology museum, the Capilla Tabernacl of 1889, the Salón San David, home of the Eisteddfod, the Italians' Teatro Verdi, the Plaza Independencia and, on the edge of town, the Capilla Moriah of 1880. In Gaiman it visits the railway station of 1909, the brick railway tunnel of 1914, the first house, built in 1874, the tea house Princess Diana visited in 1995, and ends at the Bethel chapels.
15 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 · 109 features in this old town (the field-surveyed mapping database behind Apple Maps), Wikidata · 6 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.
Monumento a los Colonos Galeses, Parque Histórico Punta Cuevas, Museo del Desembarco.
Museo Regional Pueblo de Luis, Museo Paleontológico Egidio Feruglio, Capilla Tabernacl, Salón San David, Teatro Verdi, Plaza Independencia, Capilla Moriah.
Museo Histórico Regional de Gaiman, Túnel del Ferrocarril Central del Chubut, Primera Casa de Gaiman, Ty Te Caerdydd, Capilla Bethel.
Luis Perlotti's monument to the Welsh who landed from the Mimosa in 1865, its base shaped like the caves the first settlers sheltered in.
The low headland south of town where the cavities in the cliff above the high-tide line were the settlers' first shelters.
The Calvinist Methodist chapel in the centre of Trelew, begun in 1888 and opened in 1889, its fittings of pinotea wood.
The chapel of 1880 on Rhydderch Hughes's farm, built so settlers who travelled to Rawson for worship had one nearer home.
The first house of Gaiman, built of stone from the hills in 1874 by David D. Roberts and Jenamine Jones.
Gaiman's red-brick Bethel chapel, built after the revival of 1904 and 1905 beside Yr Hen Gapel, the old chapel.
Tap "Start Walking Tour" and allow location access. The map shows all 15 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. 15 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 Welsh Patagonia — Puerto Madryn, Trelew and Gaiman, each with its own narration.
Spend an hour or a full day. Skip sites, revisit favourites, take breaks. The tour adapts to you.
15 narration points, including Museo del Desembarco, Museo Regional Pueblo de Luis, Capilla Tabernacl, Capilla Moriah and Museo Histórico Regional de Gaiman. That is about 13 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 ~5–7 hours total, but you walk at your own pace. 15 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.