Paris Le Marais Self-Guided Walking Tour and Scavenger Hunt

Explore Paris's Le Marais on a self-guided walking tour and interactive app scavenger hunt, starting anytime at your own pace.

Getting started

Begin at Place du Châtelet by the Seine and open the Explorial app on your iOS or Android smartphone. Enter the 6-digit game code you receive by text and Viator chat message to unlock your self-guided walking tour and interactive scavenger hunt. Use the live map with marked locations to orient yourself, then start following the river toward the Marais whenever you are ready.

What to expect

Place du Châtelet

Your route begins at Place du Châtelet, close to the Seine, where the neighborhood walk and game first come together. This square anchors the transition from the riverfront into the streets that lead you toward Le Marais.

Features

• Use the free Explorial app download on your smartphone to access the self-guided walking tour and interactive scavenger hunt with riddles, trivia challenges, and photo tasks right from Place du Châtelet.
• Rely on the live map with marked locations and live location display so you always know where you are as you start following the river toward the Marais.
• Play at a flexible, self-paced rhythm, with no fixed start time so you can begin at Place du Châtelet anytime and take as many breaks as you want.

Hôtel de Sens

The route leads you to the Hôtel de Sens, one of Paris's last medieval mansions. Here, the game shifts focus to stories that blend architecture, power, and conflict.

Features

• Tackle riddles that sift revolution from legend at the Hôtel de Sens while you look up at its turrets and imposing facade.
• Answer trivia that points out a formidable archbishop and a cannonball from 1830 still lodged in the building, linking what you see to the city's history and local legends.
• Continue using the points and scoring system with group leaderboard as you unlock this stop, competing between players in your group while you explore.

Place de la Bastille

From the medieval streets, your path builds toward Place de la Bastille, a key site in the French Revolution. The atmosphere shifts from quiet courtyards to a major square layered with political memory.

Features

• Stand where the fortress-prison once stood and see the July Column that now rises from Place de la Bastille as the app prompts new challenges.
• Complete scavenger hunt tasks that tie your answers and photos to the fall of the Bastille and later uprisings, reinforcing what you learn about local stories and history.
• Track your progress through the points and scoring system for competition, watching your score climb as you clear this historic stop on the route.

Place des Vosges

The final major segment unfolds around Place des Vosges, the oldest planned square in Paris. Its pink-brick arcades and residential facades frame the closing stretch of your experience.

Features

• Walk beneath the pink-brick arcades of Place des Vosges, once home to Victor Hugo and the scene of numerous duels, while solving your last riddles and trivia.
• Use the live map with marked locations to explore the square and surrounding streets, capturing photo tasks that tie into the Marais's most storied corners.
• Finish the roughly two-hour route through Le Marais with your group's total displayed on the group leaderboard, as the scoring system delivers its final verdict on your performance.

Wrapping up

The experience concludes in Le Marais after you have passed Place du Châtelet, the Hôtel de Sens, Place de la Bastille, and Place des Vosges, leaving you free to keep exploring the quarter on your own or compare scores and standings from the leaderboard with your group.