Adelaide City Highlights Self Guided Walking Tour

Adelaide City Highlights Self Guided Walking Tour

By Trippy Tour Guide

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Free cancellation available
4h
Mobile voucher
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Multiple languages

Overview

Welcome to Adelaide, a city that doesn’t rush to impress — yet quietly wins you over. Wide streets, fresh air, and parklands create a calm that feels intentional, not accidental.

This walk reveals Adelaide step by step: food-filled laneways, lively markets, grand civic buildings, playful public art, leafy squares, and riverside pauses. One moment you’re following the smell of dumplings, the next you’re standing among stories carved in stone and bronze.

Adelaide’s magic is balance. Heritage sits easily beside modern life, culture feels confident without being loud, and the city invites you to slow down.

Walk at your own pace. Linger, wander, grab a coffee. Adelaide works best when you let it set the rhythm — and it’s very good at that.

Activity location

Chinatown Adelaide South Australia
- 18 Moonta Street
- 5000, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

Meeting/Redemption Point

Chinatown Adelaide South Australia
- 18 Moonta Street
- 5000, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

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Adelaide City Highlights Self Guided Walking Tour in Multilingual

4h
Opening hours: Wed 8:00-17:00
English

Travelers

Languages available

Price details

P 521.35 x 1 AdultP 521.35

Total

10% off

Until Tue, Feb 17

What's included, what's not

Detailed directions to both well-known attractions and hidden spots
30+ narration points of popular locations in Adelaide
Audio Guide
Access to the Adelaide City Highlights Self Guided Walking Tour on our App
Fully offline map – no need for Wi-Fi or data.

Know before you book

Public transportation options are available nearby
Suitable for all physical fitness levels

Activity itinerary

Chinatown Adelaide South Australia

Step through the red gates into Adelaide’s Chinatown, where dumplings steam, cafés wake up, and the day begins gently with flavour and local energy.

Adelaide Central Market

Welcome to Adelaide’s kitchen — loud, colourful, delicious, and irresistible, where locals shop, eat, and linger among stalls bursting with life.

Sir Samuel Way Building

Tall columns and solid stone mark Adelaide’s legal heart — calm, serious architecture reminding everyone that rules still matter here.

Victoria Square/ Tarntanyangga

Adelaide opens up here — water, sculpture, and space combining at the city’s historic meeting place, where movement and calm coexist.

St Francis Xavier Cathedral

15m
Admission ticket included

A stone cathedral rises quietly behind the trees, built over decades, offering calm reflection beside the city’s bustle.

Statue of Queen Victoria

Progress and tradition share this square — reformers and royalty standing comfortably side by side in Adelaide’s civic heart.

Victoria Square Fountain

Water flows, explorers stand watch, and the Old GPO anchors the view — Adelaide’s story told in one perfectly balanced moment.

Adelaide Town Hall

Clock tower, grand arches, and historic halls — Adelaide’s civic stage where speeches, celebrations, and decisions echo through time.

Currie Street

An easygoing stretch linking calm squares to lively lanes, gently carrying you deeper into Adelaide’s everyday flow.

Leigh Street

A once-humble service lane reborn as a favourite — brick walls, cafés, shared space, and time that slows without asking.

Rundle Mall

Adelaide’s social spine — shops, performers, cafés, and people happily wandering with nowhere urgent to be.

The Rundle Mall Pigs

Four cheeky bronze pigs steal hearts, selfies, and luck — playful proof Adelaide loves art that doesn’t take itself seriously.

The Mall's Balls Statue

Two giant mirror spheres twist reflections and spark giggles — bold, shiny icons of Adelaide’s sense of humour.

Light Horse Memorial

Simple stone honours soldiers and horses — quiet dignity, endurance, and remembrance without spectacle.

National Wine Centre of Australia

A modern curve beside the gardens — discover how South Australia became one of the world’s great wine regions.

Adelaide Botanic Garden

Step into Adelaide’s favourite deep breath — winding paths, lakes, palms, and space to wander freely.

Bicentennial Conservatory

A glass palace hides a tropical rainforest — towering palms, humidity, and lush calm under steel and light.

Museum of Economic Botany

Plants that built civilisation meet giant floating lilies — science, beauty, and wonder in perfect balance.

North Terrace

Adelaide’s thinking street — museums, libraries, universities, and culture laid out with room to breathe.

Goodman Crescent

Generosity meets learning — statues, halls, and ideas layered together where education shaped the city.

Sir Walter Watson Hughes Statue

A calm benefactor watches on — belief in education, patience, and the long game cast in bronze.

Art Gallery of South Australia

Temple-like outside, welcoming inside — classic, modern, and Indigenous art freely shared with everyone.

South Australian Museum

From ancient cultures to megafauna bones — curiosity explodes inside one of Australia’s finest free museums.

State Library of South Australia

Iron balconies, warm light, and storybook magic — one of the world’s most beautiful libraries, open to all.

National War Memorial, Adelaide

Stone and bronze tell an honest story — remembrance woven quietly into daily city life.

South African War Memorial

A mounted soldier mid-stride — memory placed right in Adelaide’s flow, not hidden away.

Adelaide Festival Centre

Calm by day, electric by night — the heart of Adelaide’s festivals, performances, and creative buzz.

Elder Park

Open lawns, river views, and festival echoes — Adelaide’s outdoor living room between calm and celebration.

The City Bridge

River below, city above — joggers, rowers, reflections, and golden sunsets glide past.

Sir Donald Bradman Statue

Cricket legend meets sporting cathedral — pride, history, and big moments wrapped into Adelaide’s perfect finale.

Location

Activity location

Chinatown Adelaide South Australia
- 18 Moonta Street
- 5000, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

Meeting/Redemption Point

Chinatown Adelaide South Australia
- 18 Moonta Street
- 5000, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

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