lialo - Self-guided City Tours

lialo offers you free or low-cost app-guided city tours throughout Germany, similar to a scavenger hunt or city rally, where you follow clues and solve puzzles with your smartphone to discover hidden details in wonderful places and their history.

The ideal way to explore a city.

You can start lialo tours immediately.
=> No appointment!
=> No registration!
=> No app permissions!
So virtually now!

And if you know something that others can discover, you can easily create your own lialo tour, e.g. as a puzzle tour or city rally and send others on a discovery. For your family, your friends or a child's birthday party, for example.

lialo is short for "Like a Local". The tours are all created by locals with great attention to detail and an eye for what is special. On the tours, which run like a city game or a scavenger hunt, you can discover a city or the neighbourhood at your own pace. More up to date and contemporary than any printed travel guide. The new kind of sightseeing. A varied city walk.

Of course, there are tours especially for children, but most tours can be wonderfully played with the whole family. Give your children the mobile phone, then they can read the directions and become your city guide. At the tour stops, varied tasks await you, which you have to solve together.

But don't worry, we won't ask you about your school knowledge. The questions are usually only intended to draw your attention to an inconspicuous but often surprising detail. You can't always know the answer. That's okay. That's the game. That's why we give you up to four, usually whimsical, possible answers.

lialo tours are a great way to get outside and discover new things with family, friends or alone.

The lialo community has already created many exciting tours for you in the following places:

Aachen
Augsburg
Berlin
Bonn
Bremen
Bremerhaven
Chemnitz
Dortmund
Dresden
Düsseldorf
Duisburg
Eisenach
Essen
Esslingen
Flensburg
Frankfurt
Halberstadt
Halle (Saale)
Hamburg
Hamelin
Hanover
Herne
Hiddensee
Kassel
Kiel
Koblenz
Cologne
Constance
Leipzig
Leverkusen
Lübeck
Mainz
Magdeburg
Marburg
Munich
Münster
Nuremberg
Oberhausen
Pforzheim
Potsdam
Ratingen
Remscheid
Rostock
Saarbrücken
Senftenberg
Solingen
Stuttgart
Tübingen
Wismar

Here are two examples:

*** Kreuzberg, neighbourhood and people (Berlin) ***
A tour as colourful and multifaceted as the pulsating district known far beyond Berlin. It shows the city and life around Kreuzberg: tranquillity in Viktoriapark and Riehmers Hofgarten, Wilhelminian style buildings on Chamissoplatz, colourful hustle and bustle in Bergmannkiez and lost places on the Dragonerareal.

*** David Bowie's Berlin - LP Version (Berlin) ***
This tour is a real walk on the wild side and shows Berlin through David Bowie's eyes and ears. Discover the Berlin of the 70's and 80's in an audiovisual tour of original locations. One of Bowie's longest companions, the legendary musician Lou Reed, accompanies him through the city. He shows places where David lived, loved, partied, shopped or "hung out". The places where he wrote songs, recorded and played concerts. You can see beautiful facades and middle-class neighbourhoods. But also dark, dirty backyards and then, as now, adventurous places.