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October 17, 2005

Audio Tour Guides For Travelers

For those of you who prefer learning about where you are traveling rather than wandering around aimlessly we just added 3 publisher pages for producers of audio tour guides. Here they are:

www.learnoutloud.com/ridewithme
www.learnoutloud.com/soundwalk
www.learnoutloud.com/soundtravel

Ride With Me Audio covers a number of the nation's interstate highways covering the history and geography of the area you're traveling through. Obviously great for road trips the audio tours are based on extensive research and narrated by world class narrators like Flo Gibson and Grover Gardner. On their site they sell their products as well as other travel audio on CD and cassette. Or you can get over a dozen of their titles through audio downloads on Audible.com.

Soundwalk is a publisher which create audio walking tours for various parts of New York City. For more details about Soundwalk you can read my article "Listening Your Way Around The Big Apple". Their audio guided NYC walking tours are available on CD and MP3 download.

If you're going to Europe, Sound Travel features audio-guided walking tours of major European cities including the cities of Paris, London, Florence, Rome, and Venice. Each city tour lasts 3 hours and includes a total of four tours/walks to places that are considered to be "off the beaten path". You can get their tours on cassette or on audio download through Audible.com.

So if you're traveling through any of these destinations there's no need to be bored. Even the most banal turnpike has a rich history and why not learn about it while you're there?

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