Napier Prison Audio Tours
Napier, New Zealand
Trip Type: Historical & Heritage Tours
Duration: 60 minutes
Walk through New Zealand's oldest prison! Listen to a 50 minute self guided audio tour of Napier Prison while inspecting the vacant prison cells and deserted exercise yard. Learn the history and feel the oppressive atmosphere of the hanging yard, the solitary confinement and the death row cells. Hear the tales of Australasia's richest drug baron, numerous escape attempts, the ominous Eye Eater, and the graveyard.
Take your time walking through the empty halls and enjoy several photo opportunities that are great for the family!
Take your time walking through the empty halls and enjoy several photo opportunities that are great for the family!
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Walk through New Zealand's oldest prison! Listen to a 50 minute self guided audio tour of Napier Prison while inspecting the vacant prison cells and deserted exercise yard. Learn the history and feel the oppressive atmosphere of the hanging yard, the solitary confinement and the death row cells. Hear the tales of Australasia's richest drug baron, numerous escape attempts, the ominous Eye Eater, and the graveyard.
Take your time walking through the empty halls and enjoy several photo opportunities that are great for the family! Opened in 1862, start your tour at the front gate and enter through the prisoner built wall and walk through the Visiting Area where family members could see their loved ones. Take a look at the The Pound and see what solitary confinement meant in the 1900's, and visit the Detox Room where inmates would be imprinted and also meet for Alcohol Anonymous. Next step through the Courtyard where the Shower Block, Toilets, and Mess Hall are located. Learn about their meager meals and the games they would play. As you enter the living areas, you'll witness the living conditions that inmates were subjected to, see how they left their mark on the Prison and learn about the Earthquake that leveled Napier City. You'll make your way through the back of the Prison where you'll learn about the Graveyard and the prisoners that remain here and finally around the Cleaning Building you'll visit the ominous Hanging Yard where several inmates met their end.
This audio guided tour allows you to take your time (or skip) certain parts of the Prison and allows to read extra information and take great photo opportunities along the way.
Take your time walking through the empty halls and enjoy several photo opportunities that are great for the family! Opened in 1862, start your tour at the front gate and enter through the prisoner built wall and walk through the Visiting Area where family members could see their loved ones. Take a look at the The Pound and see what solitary confinement meant in the 1900's, and visit the Detox Room where inmates would be imprinted and also meet for Alcohol Anonymous. Next step through the Courtyard where the Shower Block, Toilets, and Mess Hall are located. Learn about their meager meals and the games they would play. As you enter the living areas, you'll witness the living conditions that inmates were subjected to, see how they left their mark on the Prison and learn about the Earthquake that leveled Napier City. You'll make your way through the back of the Prison where you'll learn about the Graveyard and the prisoners that remain here and finally around the Cleaning Building you'll visit the ominous Hanging Yard where several inmates met their end.
This audio guided tour allows you to take your time (or skip) certain parts of the Prison and allows to read extra information and take great photo opportunities along the way.
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