New Orleans Self-Guided Walking Tour with Audio Guide
- 2 hours
- Free cancellation up to 24h before
- 7 languages
- Instant confirmation
Highlights
Explore New Orleans on a self-guided walking tour, starting at the historic Congo Square. This engaging journey weaves through 2.8 km of the city’s rich history, where architecture, music, and ritual come alive. With audio guidance, learn fascinating facts at your own pace, and enjoy interactive quizzes that unlock more content as you walk. The tour is designed for solo adventurers or those who want to team up with friends, allowing for a unique blend of learning and fun. Perfect for any weather, this tour can be undertaken anytime and takes about two hours to complete. - Self-guided tour, allowing for personal pace and exploration - 2.8 km route featuring iconic sites like Bourbon Street and Jackson Square - Interactive audio guide with quizzes for added engagement - Enjoy this activity solo or with friends—no group required.
Inclusions
What's included
- Audioguide about each point of interest along the tour
- Self-guided tour on your smartphone, APP not needed!
- Available in: English, Deutsch, Italiano, Français, Español, Português, 中文
What's not
- Access offline. Internet needed on your phone
- A physical guide (the tour is accessible on your smartphone)
Itinerary
Start your walk at Louis Armstrong Park in Tremé — just open Ciceru nearby to begin exploring the ground where New Orleans first learned to keep time.
Pause outside the candle-lit ruins of respectability where Jean Lafitte once mixed contraband with charm.
Glance up at this 1850s townhouse, proof that even plumbing could be prestige when enslaved hands kept it flowing.
Stroll through America’s oldest bazaar, where two centuries of bargaining still echo between hot-sauce stalls.
Watch sugar fall like snow over the Mississippi breeze — a powdered sermon in fried dough.
Stand at the city’s most theatrical stage, where armies, artists, and fortune-tellers have all tried to upstage each other.
Admire from outside the triple spires that have survived fires, floods, and faith’s occasional melodrama.
Listen at the doorway: the air still hums with brass lines that refuse to retire.
Wrap up your tour on Bourbon Street. Take a moment to watch the balconies blink awake — the city’s loudest confession still in progress.
Cancellation
Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the experience starts, for a full refund.
Know before you go
- Meeting point
- Start your walk at Louis Armstrong Park in Tremé — just open Ciceru nearby to begin exploring the ground where New Orleans first learned to keep time.
- Pickup
- Everyone meets at the starting point; there is no pickup.
- Ticket type
- Mobile or paper ticket accepted
- Operated by
- Ciceru
- Not recommended for travelers with spinal injuries
- Not recommended for travelers with poor cardiovascular health
- Not recommended for pregnant travelers
- Service animals allowed
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
How it compares in New Orleans
- Its from-price is 90% below the median of the 96 city tours we list in New Orleans.
- Its length is typical for the group.
- The operator lists free cancellation on it.
About New Orleans
New Orleans is the Louisiana city of jazz, Creole food and the French Quarter, set on a bend of the Mississippi River near the Gulf of Mexico.
New Orleans was founded by the French in 1718 and later ruled by Spain, and the French Quarter still shows it, with wrought-iron balconies, courtyards and Jackson Square, which St Louis Cathedral overlooks. Jazz was born here, and live music pours from clubs on Frenchmen Street. The St Charles streetcar rattles beneath oaks to the mansions of the Garden District.
Top-ranked sights in New Orleans: French Quarter, Jackson Square, LaLaurie Mansion.
Special offers in New Orleans
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