Self-Guided Walking Tours: Now On Your Phone With GPS
Exploring new places on foot is one of our favorite ways to travel. That’s why many of our blog posts feature self-guided walking tours.
We put together lists and maps of great places to visit in places like Brussels, Bruges, Paris, and Cuenca because that’s the kind of information we search for when we’re traveling.
But what if we could take it a step further? Instead of taking notes from travel blogs or printing out articles, what if the blog post could become your real-time travel guide?
GPSmyCity Self-Guided Walking Tour App
The folks at GPS My City created an app with city walks around the world, using your smartphone’s offline GPS. So you can find new places and always know where you are on the map, but you don’t have to use expensive international data or wifi.
GPSmyCity reached out to us to translate some of our online travel articles into GPS-guided travel articles on their app. Essentially, they embed GPS coordinates in our blog posts and map a route out for you.
Remember: once the app is downloaded to your phone, you will not need any internet to use the article as a guide. No more looking up directions! It will show you where you are on the map and guide you to the next location, even offline.
You can upload any travel article from GPSmyCity for free, so you can pull it up on your phone even if you don’t have wifi. If you decide you want it to be a GPS-guided article, just upgrade the article for a small fee.
Our New Walking Tour Articles on the App
These are some of our first articles released on the app:
- Top 5 Things to Do in Bruges
- What to See and Do in Cuenca, Ecuador
- Top Things You Must See and Do in Quito, Ecuador
- What and Where to Eat in Cuenca, Ecuador
- What to Do on a Day Trip to Otavalo, Ecuador
- A Local’s Guide to Portland Oregon
- Favorite Spots to Hang Out in Salem, Oregon
- Top Things to Do in Jerico, Colombia
Other popular cities on the app include:
- Paris
- Amsterdam
- Bangkok
- Istanbul
- Kyoto
- San Francisco
- and 480+ other cities
You can access GPS-guided travel articles several ways:
- Click on a link above for the article you are interested in (it will prompt you to download the free GPS My City app). After downloading the app on your phone, you will be directed to the article, where you can choose UPGRADE to get the GPS-guided version.
- From the GPSmyCity app, you can browse by city to see which articles are available. Download any article for free or upgrade for offline GPS-guided use.
- NEW: You can sign up for subscriptions within the app to access articles and/or city maps world-wide, all year round. This is probably the best bang for you buck, especially if you’re traveling to multiple cities.
** A 3-day Free Trial is provided under each subscription upgrade offer.
Disclosure: We are affiliates for GPSmyCity, so we receive a small percentage of the fee if you upgrade one of our articles on the app.
