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Podcast Travel: Walk the Walki, Talk the Talki

May 14, 2008 at 9:19 AM | 0 Comments

Like the idea of blending into the city you're visiting and not looking like a tourist? That, for us, is a key selling point of travel podcasts: You get a guided tour around a city while looking like a local, wandering around with headphones on.

The guys at Walki Talki seem to be producing some neat podcasts--they're a gang out of Amsterdam who decided three years ago that the world needed audio walking tours. At the moment they cover various cities in western and central Europe, including Prague, Munich, Amsterdam and Paris; pick your city, download the podcast and the printable map for $9, and get walking.

You can listen to a sample excerpt of each podcast to try before you buy; they mostly use two narrators who are happy to have a bit of witty banter--but not too much. At between 90 minutes and two hours, they're just right for a good stroll but not so long that you get sick of your tour guides.

Related Stories:
· Walki Talki [Official Site]
· Podcasts Don't Have Tour Guides on the Run--Yet [Jaunted]

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