Guides

Experience history at your own pace with the best audio and print guides to be found across India!

  • Hassle-Free: No haggling with touts and unlicensed tour guides. Just download and use.
  • Authentic: We go through dozens of books and primary sources to make sure we know what we’re talking about!
  • Interesting: Whether it’s our comic-style guidebooks or humorous audio tours, we make sure you enjoy your visit
  • Affordable: Guides start at just $0.99
  • Flexible: Download our guides and take your time. After all, you’re on vacation!

Guidebooks

Comic-style guidebooks to monuments and heritage sitesOnly a few pages each, these well-researched, comic-book style guides use photos and speech balloons to summarize points of interest as well as the historical context in a clear, concise manner. And, because each guide focuses on a specific site, you save money buying only what you need.
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Audio Guides and iPhone Apps

MP3 and app audio guides to monuments and heritage sitesWitty, sometimes irreverent, but always informative, these audio guides greatly enhance your tour with mood-setting music, sound effects and professional narration. Included map and walking route ensure you will not miss out on anything! Phonoguides are available as MP3 files or as iPhone and Android Apps.
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As frequent visitors to historical destinations we despaired of ever finding the right kind of guide. Books are expensive, unwieldy, overloaded with information and overall not user-friendly. And many of the local guides are prone to telling tall tales, rushing you about and then hankering for a tip – not much fun if all you want to do is roam about the monuments in peace. So we came up with the idea of Pictoguides, the world’s first comic-style guidebooks – heavy on research, light on the wallet and just a few pages each.Powered by Hackadelic Sliding Notes 1.6.5
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Local guides, except for a few dedicated ones are prone to telling tall tales, rushing you about and eventually leading you to souvenir stores operated by their ‘cousins’. That’s really not much fun when you want to take in the site at your own pace. Plus audio tours have the added dimension of professional narration, music and sound effects that greatly enhance your experience in a way no human guide can – not unless they are accompanied by an entire orchestra!Powered by Hackadelic Sliding Notes 1.6.5
We accept credit / debit cards, Paypal, bank transfer and cheque payments. Your card company will convert your US$ purchase on this site into local currency at prevailing exchange rates. Bank transfers and cheque payments are at Rs. 45 to a dollar and applicable in India only.Powered by Hackadelic Sliding Notes 1.6.5