Dunedin
4 self-guided audio tours
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Introducing our Dunedin tours
They came for gold and stayed for the architecture. Scottish settlers planted their new Edinburgh at the foot of the South Island in 1848 – and when the Otago Gold Rush arrived, it turned their modest colony into New Zealand's wealthiest city almost overnight. The money didn't last, but the buildings did: the Railway Station, ornate in Flemish Renaissance black and white, cost a fortune in a city that briefly had one.
Grand Victorian facades line the Octagon a short drive from a wild peninsula where royal albatross wheel over a coast Kāi Tahu knew as Ōtākou long before any prospector arrived. The Dunedin Sound
– lo-fi guitar music the Crown Hotel helped send into the world in the 1980s – feels like a natural product of a city that has always preferred doing things well over doing them loudly.
VoiceMap's self-guided audio tours follow both threads. Walk the gold rush heritage past Gingerbread George's
railway station and Robbie Burns in the Octagon, or cycle Otago Harbour's stories to Port Chalmers, where Scott once departed for Antarctica. Earbuds in, Dunedin does the rest.
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