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Halifax self-guided walking tour and scavenger hunt
$43.99
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Overview
The Tourist Scavenger Hunt in Halifax, Nova Scotia, offers an engaging way to explore the city while solving challenges. This self-guided tour takes you through iconic sites, allowing you to learn local history and interesting facts along the way.
- 🗺️ A 4.7 km (2.92 mi) walking tour that includes various challenges at each stop, designed to take approximately 3 hours to complete.
- 🌳 Visit the Halifax Public Gardens and complete an initial challenge to kick off your adventure.
- 🏰 Admire the historic Citadel, the highest point in the city, and learn about its fascinating history while solving a few challenges.
- ⏰ Enjoy a leisurely pace, with the freedom to start whenever you're ready and take as much time as you wish to finish.
- 🎉 Fun for all ages, making it a perfect activity for families with kids.
- 📲 Access scavenger hunt instructions directly on your smartphone for a smooth experience (data required).
- 🚌 Public transportation options are readily available nearby, ensuring easy access to starting points.
- ♿ Wheelchair accessible, with all areas and surfaces accommodating travelers with mobility needs.
- 📍 Explore 26 locations and tackle 22 varied challenges as you uncover the rich history of Halifax.
- 📞 Benefit from 24/7 customer support to assist you throughout your scavenger hunt.
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Halifax self-guided walking tour & scavenger hunt
Tour guide
Language: English
Printed guide
The experience offers several options, check yours above
- 26 locations seen
- 22 varied challenges
- 24/7 customer support
- Scavenger hunt instructions on your smartphone (data required)
- This tour is strictly exterior sightseeing, you need not enter any of the locations seen on it..
- You can pause the activity to visit any of the locations along the tour route.
Meeting point
Once you're standing outside the Halifax Cruise Terminal, and have completed the transaction with our website, follow the start instructions in the "Order Complete" email.
Once you're standing outside the Lord Nelson Hotel, and have completed the transaction with our website, follow the start instructions in the "Order Complete" email.
Return details
Once you're standing outside the Halifax Cruise Terminal, and have completed the transaction with our website, follow the start instructions in the "Order Complete" email.
Once you're standing outside the Lord Nelson Hotel, and have completed the transaction with our website, follow the start instructions in the "Order Complete" email.
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Halifax Public GardensDiscover Halifax's Public Gardens and solve a simple challenge to start your activity. 5 minutes here 5 minutes to your next destination
- Learn about the Canadian Armed Forces' presence in Halifax as you walk past several of their buildings. Solve challenges while here. 5 minutes here 5 minutes to get to your next destination. (pass by)
- Walk up the hill to admire Halifax's old citadel fortification. Learn about its history and numerous re-constructions. Take in a 360-degree view of the surrounding area. This is the highest point in the city. Solve a few challenges while you're here. 15 minutes walking around the area. (pass by)
- Walk past the Old Town Clock on your way down to Brunswick St. Solve a challenge here. 5 minutes (pass by)
- Walk by the Scotiabank Centre and learn about the city's sports teams. Solve a challenge here. 5 minutes here 5 minutes walking to your next destination. (pass by)
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Grand ParadeAdmire the many monuments around Grand Parade, a central park in the oldest part of Halifax. Solve 2 challenges 10 minutes here
- Admire and learn about Halifax City Hall, and solve a challenge. 5 minutes here (pass by)
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Cross Grand Parade to see this small white church, and learn about its history. Also learn about the 1917 Harbor Explosion, of which 1 piece of ship's wood is still embedded inside the church! Solve a challenge here. 10 minutes here. 5 minutes to your next destination
- Walk by and admire Province House, where the government of Nova Scotia sits to legislate. Learn about its history, and what Charles Dickens did here in 1841. Solve 2 challenges here. 10 minutes here (pass by)
- Across the street, you'll find the province's Art Gallery. Solve a challenge here as well. 5 minutes here 5 minutes to the next destination (pass by)
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Walk to the waterfront and solve a challenge about the blue dockyard clock. 5 minutes here
- Walk across a few wharves to the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic. Learn about some of the islands in Halifax Harbor, and solve a maritime flag-related challenge. 15 minutes (pass by)
- Approach the warship, the HMCS Sackville, a World War II Corvette. Learn about its history and solve a challenge. Then pay attention to surrounding monuments to learn about the rich Irish history of this part of Halifax. 15 minutes here. (pass by)
- Walk by this important brewery and learn about this neighborhood called Irishtown. Solve a few challenges before returning to the waterfront. 10 minutes (pass by)
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Halifax Waterfront BoardwalkWalk along the waterfront to the Seaport farmer's market. You'll encounter a few monuments, each revealing some part of the city's history, and a different challenge to solve.
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Halifax Seaport Farmer's MarketThis is also the cruise ship terminal. Learn about Samuel Cunard, one of the city's most famous sailors, and solve a challenge.
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Walk to the train station, to solve another challenge and learn about how the railroad reached Halifax.
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Walk away from the train station through this beautiful park. Learn about its Ukranian monument and solve a challenge.
- Walk 5 minutes north to Government House, the official residence of the province's Lieutenant Governor (the local representative of the King of England). Solve a challenge while here. 10 minutes (pass by)
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Continue walking to the next intersection where you'll find this beautiful cathedral. Learn its history and solve a challenge here.
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Halifax Central LibraryWalk past the old central library on your right, to find the beautiful new one on your left. Solve a challenge here.
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Halifax self-guided walking tour and scavenger hunt
$43.99
This is an experience gift voucher. The recipient will book the experience after
they redeem the gift voucher.
How it works?
01
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You choose from 10,000+ experience gifts
02
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We deliver the eVoucher or the Physical box to the recipient
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Recipient books the experience and creates unforgettable memories!