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San Dego, Calforna
5 curiously human self-guided audio tours
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Driving Tour
180 mins
Walking Tour
90 mins
Walking Tour
35 mins
Cycling Tour
40 mins
Walking Tour
45 mins
Introducing our San Diego, California tours
America's Finest City – a nickname trademarked by a local newspaper, adopted by the Navy, and eventually just accepted as fact. Eternal 72 degrees. Zero urgency. Biotech labs towering over fish taco stands.
California's laid-back answer to LA's hustle: perfect waves, perfect weather, perfect excuse to do nothing. Yet somehow it birthed Comic-Con, craft beer culture, and cutting-edge genomics.
Most visitors hit Balboa Park, snap a selfie with the seals in La Jolla, then cruise to Coronado thinking they've seen it all – back on the ship before sunset, gorgeous and fleeting. They miss what locals guard: hidden tide pools, hole-in-the-walls that defined SoCal cuisine, the neighborhoods where surf culture was born.
VoiceMap's self-guided audio tours change that. Drive past Sunset Cliffs with a local narrator in your ear, discover why UCSD has a house teetering on its roof, or cycle the Bayshore Bikeway while hearing about the sea turtles who call San Diego Bay home. No tour bus. Just you and the stories only locals know.
Plug in your earbuds. San Diego will handle the sunshine.
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How the VoiceMap app works
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Focus on your surroundings, not the screen
The VoiceMap app uses GPS to play audio automatically, at the right time and place, so you can focus on your surroundings, not the screen.
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Follow a route with turn-by-turn-directions
VoiceMap tours follow a route from a fixed starting point. That lets us give turn-by-turn directions and use context to tell a better story.
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Resume playback to go at your own pace
If you'd like to stop for a drink or go into a museum, end your tour then use the Resume feature to pick up exactly where you left off.
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Listen as many times as you like
You can listen to your tours as often as you like using both the VoiceMap app and website.
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Take virtual tours anywhere, like a podcast
Select Virtual mode in the VoiceMap app to listen to tours like a podcast - at home or in transit.
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Buy for less on voicemap.me and sync
Once you've purchased a tour, it's added to your VoiceMap library. To access it in the app, just sign in using the same account.
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Do tours without paying for data
Tours work offline, so you don't have to pay roaming fees. Just download them over WiFi before you get started.
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