Self-Guided Walking Tours in Australia (2026)

Australia has 7 self-guided audio walking tours on Roamer across 3 cities: Hobart, Melbourne and Sydney. Every tour is free to start, covers history and culture, and plays GPS-triggered narration so you explore at your own pace.

Cities with self-guided walking tours in Australia

City	Tours	Themes
Hobart	2	History
Melbourne	2	Culture, History
Sydney	3	History

Where to walk in Australia

• Hobart (2 tours): Australia's second-oldest city, a convict-era port on the river Derwent under the shadow of a mountain, on the land of the muwinina people. Its harbour, Sullivans Cove, keeps one of the best-preserved Georgian waterfronts in the country: the great sandstone warehouses of Salamanca Place, the convict-cut Kelly's Steps, and the tiny cottages of Battery Point crowded around a village green at Arthur Circus. Around the docks stand the customs house that became a parliament, the oldest building in Tasmania, and the chapel and courts of the convict system. Beyond the town lie the harder memories of a penal island and of the near-destruction of the Tasmanian Aboriginal people. Read the sandstone port and its history at your own pace.
• Melbourne (2 tours): The gold-rush city, laid out as a grid on the land of the Kulin nations and made suddenly, spectacularly rich when gold was found in Victoria in the eighteen fifties. That fortune built a boom city of grand boulevards, ornate arcades and public palaces, and left behind a secret second city of narrow laneways now full of street art, coffee and hidden bars. From Flinders Street Station and the painted walls of Hosier Lane through the glass-roofed Block and Royal Arcades to the oldest Chinatown in the southern hemisphere, the centre is a maze to be wandered. Up the hill on Spring Street stand the parliament, treasury and theatres the gold built, and the gaol where Ned Kelly met the rope. Read the laneways and the boom city at your own pace.
• Sydney (3 tours): Australia's oldest and largest city, born as a convict settlement on a great blue harbour and grown into a global metropolis of sails, sandstone and beaches. On the harbour edge The Rocks keeps the narrow lanes, cut steps and terraces of the first town, hewn from sandstone by convict hands on the land of the Gadigal people; along Macquarie Street a convict architect raised the barracks, church and hospital of a young Georgian colony. Around the cove rise the two great emblems of the modern city, the white shells of the Opera House and the steel arch of the Harbour Bridge, framed from the governor's old garden at Mrs Macquarie's Chair. Read the layers of the city, from the First Fleet to the sails, at your own pace.

How much do walking tours in Australia cost?

Every tour is free to preview. A single tour is $4.99 for lifetime access. If you are visiting more than one city, a 30-day pass covering every tour everywhere is $19.99, or a 7-day pass is $12.99. There is no group booking, no fixed start time, and no tip.

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