Aarau Self-Guided City Walking Tour & Scavenger Hunt
Overview
Available languages
2 hours
Mobile ticket
Painted eaves, a medieval clock tower and old-town lanes built for wandering — Aarau is the Swiss capital of beautiful gables, and of hidden clues.
This app-led scavenger hunt takes you through Aarau on foot, using phone-based riddles to guide you from one landmark to the next. No guide, no fixed start time.
• Look up at the Obertorturm, the mighty upper gate tower
• Pass the Alte Kantonsschule, Switzerland's oldest secular school
• Find the Alte Mühle, keeper of the town's working past
Around 2 hours, any group size, available in German, English, and French.
The city of beautiful gables plays a beautiful game.
Additional Info
Suitable for all physical fitness levels
After booking you receive a text message and a Viator message with your game code. Download the Explorial app from your appstore or explorial.com. Open the app, enter your 6 digit game code
Technical requirements: You will need a fully charged smartphone and an active mobile data connection
Recommended attire: It’s best to wear weather-appropriate clothing and comfortable walking shoes — approx. 2 hours of light walking
Weather & Health Guarantee: If bad weather or illness prevents you from going on the tour, you can simply reschedule it for another day. You can also rebook to a different city or request a refund
Entrance fees are not required for the game. All puzzles relate to the public areas of the sights
If you need more than 15 tickets just do another booking on the same day
What To Expect
Starting at Aarau Info on Metzgergasse 2, you'll open the Explorial app, enter the 6-digit game code that you received by text and Viator chat message, and duck into the old town. The tour is fully self-guided — no guide, no fixed start time, just your group and the city. The Obertorturm dominates early — the 13th-century gate tower with its carillon and centuries of watchmen's stories. Riddles ring through its history. At the Alte Kantonsschule, trivia honours the country's oldest non-clerical high school, alma mater to a certain Albert Einstein. Then the Alte Mühle grinds out the final clues, a reminder of the mills and industry that powered Aarau long before it powered Switzerland's briefest stint as capital. Around two hours beneath the town's famously painted eaves — keep looking up. The leaderboard crowns Aarau's sharpest eye.
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Aarau Self-Guided City Walking Tour & Scavenger Hunt
What‘s Included
Learn about town stories, history, and local legends
Total flexibility: no waiting, start anytime, walk at own pace and do as many breaks as you want
Free download of the Explorial App from your appstore required (iOS and Android supported)
Points and scoring system — compete with your group
Self-guided city tour with interactive riddles, trivia challenges and photo tasks
Clear hints and map guidance — so you never get stuck or lost
A Smartphone is required and not provided. Fully charged with active data connection (internet)
No live guide: The tour is 100% self-guided – no one will be meeting you at the starting point
This is not an audio guide
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Reviews
3 reviews
Total reviews and rating from Viator & Tripadvisor
interesting and educational
beaw58,Dec 30, 2025
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00An interesting and educational experience. Very pleasant, as you can continue at your own pace, also you can interrupt and take a break. The distances are easily done on foot.
Interesting tool,...
Helmut W,Aug 13, 2025
- Review from Viator
4.00Interesting tool, but disappointing that you had to read the text and couldn't hear it. The old town part fell a bit short in my opinion. We were a group of 6 people (4 in English, 2 in German). No combination of the groups could be made here. Besides, you can't go back once you're ahead like the rest of the group.
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