Geogad Celebrates Canada Day With Free Victoria Tour

July 2, 2009 - PRLog -- Is there any better place to celebrate Canada Day in British Columbia than at the Inner Harbor of Victoria with its Old World charm and huge fireworks displays? Now it has gotten even better with the release of Geogad's latest Mobile Tour of Victoria, British Columbia. This free self-guided tour is packed with over an hour of audio narration, maps and photos, which explains Victoria's history from the art and culture of its First Nations peoples to the early Europeans who first formed Victoria and helped it grow into the city that it is today.

This tour, as with all of Geogad's Mobile Tours, are designed to roam with travelers using the mobile electronic devices that they already carry with them. For example, a traveler can stream a sample of the tour from the Geogad main site at http://www.geogad.com. If the traveler would like to view or download the entire tour, all he has to do is sign into his free Geogad account, and the tour with advertisements is ready to go. The traveler also has the option of buying the tour to avoid the ads completely. The tour with or without ads can be uploaded to a mobile media player like an iPod or viewed spontaneously on a cellphone with a mobile web browser from Geogad's mobile site at http://m.geogad.com. For travelers with smartphones powered by the Google Android operating system, the Geogad GPS-enabled application can be downloaded for free from Google's Android Market. Geogad's application helps travelers find nearby tour stops and dynamically creates maps and directions so travelers always know where they are.

On its surface, Victoria is a charming city, and much of the city's history is mixed in with its quaint storefronts and stunning harbor views. Geogad's tour of Victoria begins in the heart of Victoria's Inner Harbor and includes Victoria's former steamship terminal, its impressive Legislative Buildings and its regal Empress Hotel, which all add to the city's genteel manner. The Royal BC Museum and its adjacent park teach visitors and remind locals of British Columbia's people and their legacy. A highlight of the stop at the museum is a visit to Thunderbird Park where visitors can get up close and personal with the totem poles carved by the best First Nations artists. The tour also touches on many of Victoria's small neighborhoods including Chinatown and the downtown business district. With over an hour of narration, the tour will be sure to aid Victoria's new travelers and entertain its frequent visitors.

Geogad Mobile Tours are a collection of audio and video self-guided tours of popular travel destinations. Geogad's professional tours include all of the research that would have been done by a local guide. Travelers can spontaneously listen and view the tours on the mobile devices that they already use without having to waste time their valuable vacation time searching through guide books. Best of all, travelers can explore Victoria on their own schedule for free. Travelers can even create their own custom tours using the main Geogad site at http://www.geogad.com. Travelers can create these custom tours to suit their interests and share them with others. All of this and the best of Victoria is provided for free by Geogad, your personal mobile tour guide.

PRICING AND AVAILABILITY

The Geogad Mobile Tour for Victoria, British Columbia with sponsored advertisements is available for free at the Geogad website. Geogad Mobile Tours are also available without advertisements at a U.S. list price of $9.99 each. The tours can be downloaded and purchased directly from the Geogad website at http://www.geogad.com.

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ABOUT GEOGAD

Geogad, Inc. is a private company based in Santa Clara in California's Silicon Valley. It helps travelers explore the world by making digital tours that are fun and easy to use and can be taken with the mobile devices that they already carry with them. Geogad is changing the way that people travel.