A self-guided audio walking tour of My Son, the Cham sanctuary, through its temple groups after a short ride in the site's electric car; My Son is a long drive from the cruise port at Chan May, where a ship's own excursion is the safer choice. It starts at the museum, with the history of a sanctuary that Cham rulers built, rebuilt and expanded from the 4th to the 13th centuries, abandoned by the mid-15th century and rediscovered by French explorers in 1885. The walk passes Group K, recently conserved with the Archaeological Survey of India, and the rarely visited Group H, then reaches B1, the main temple that sheltered Bhadresvara, the god of My Son, with the treasury B5 and its boat-shaped roof, the temple C1 and the halls D1 and D2 that now house sculptures. At A1, which Henri Parmentier called the finest of all Cham buildings in 1904, it tells the week of bombing in August 1969 that destroyed Group A. It ends at Group G of King Jaya Harivarman I, the restored storehouse E7, the unrestored F1 held up by iron rods, and the bomb craters that have become lily ponds.
12 narrations, yours to keep — no subscription, no expiry. Works offline once downloaded, and if it isn’t for you we’ll refund it.
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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 · 48 features in this old town (the field-surveyed mapping database behind Apple Maps), Wikidata · 5 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.
The history of the Cham sanctuary from King Bhadravarman I to its rediscovery in 1885, with sculptures and stone tablets inscribed in Cham or Sanskrit.
The kalan that sheltered Bhadresvara, the god of My Son, as a great linga and yoni, of which a large sandstone base survives.
The storehouse for the god's valuables, its entrance facing north towards Kuvera, with a boat-shaped roof and carved sandstone panels.
The long brick front halls where the faithful prepared before entering the sanctuaries, now housing sculptures, reliefs and two bomb casings.
The footprint and rubble of the tower Parmentier called the finest of all Cham buildings, destroyed in the bombing of August 1969.
Five 12th-century temples of King Jaya Harivarman I on their own hill, rich in terracotta and restored with Italian teams from 1997.
Tap "Start Walking Tour" and allow location access. The map shows all 12 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. 12 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 My Son — the Cham Sanctuary in the Valley, each with its own narration.
Spend an hour or a full day. Skip sites, revisit favourites, take breaks. The tour adapts to you.
12 narration points, including Group H, B5 Treasury, C1 Temple, Group G and My Son Museum. That is about 12 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):
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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 ~1–2 hours total, but you walk at your own pace. 12 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.