The 3 Audio Tours in Sweden That Earn Their Price

1.Walk Malmö with an audio guide

★★★★★★★★★★3.5 · 31 reviews · from $10Our pick

Download a self-guided Malmö audio tour to your phone and walk from Malmö Centralstation to Turning Torso in about two to three hours. You’ll hear background on St. Peter’s Church, Stortorget, Folkets Park, Möllevångstorget, Malmöhus Castle, and more. Bring headphones, download the tour on hotel Wi-Fi, and plan for a one-way route.

“Just the right length of walk and information at each point. Of our phones do not have earphones sockets. Also this is not a circular route and some time was spent getting back to the start.”

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2.Self-Guided Audio Walking Tour Through Kurt Wallander’s Ystad

★★★★★★★★★★3.5 · 12 reviews · from $10

Follow a GPS-guided Kurt Wallander mystery through central Ystad using the StoryTourist app. Listen to scenes, find digital evidence, inspect images, and solve puzzles as you walk from Sankt Knuts torg to Klostret i Ystad. Allow 90 minutes to two hours, and bring your own smartphone and headphones.

“Gute Technik, interessanter Rundgang, gute Qualität hat Spaß gemacht, Zeit war genau richtig eingeplant”

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3.Lund’s Medieval and Modern History: A Self-Guided Audio Tour

★★★★★★★★★★4.5 · 11 reviews · 1 hour to 1 hour 15 minutes (approx.) · from $9Best value

Start at Lund Central and follow an English audio walk through Stortorget, Lund Cathedral, Kulturen, the Botanical Garden, Professorsstaden, Skissernas Museum, and AF Borgen. The VoiceMap app supplies narration, maps, and offline access, so you can set your own pace. Allow about 60 to 75 minutes, excluding indoor visits.

“The tour was interesting and covered a lot. The narrator was excellent and the app worked great. I liked the app enough I’ll be looking for more tours there.”

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