Pack Your Bags and Press Play: These Are the Best Travel Podcasts Ever

Travel is more than escape and fun. It can be an opportunity for personal growth, and that growth mindset is the focus of Chronicles Abroad. Two middle-aged, single, empty nesters, hosts Nubia and Frantzces started this podcast to chat with people about what they've learned and gained from living, working, and traveling around the world. Each week, tune in to hear their conversations with global explorers, creative wanderers, and digital nomads about all kinds of incredible and inspiring experiences.

Hosted by Condé Nast Traveler editors Lale Arikoglu and Meredith Carey, Women Who Travel opens a window into what it's like to be a modern woman traveling the world on her own. Episodes feature and celebrate women who step out of their comfort zone and defy society's expectations to explore food, hospitality, adventure, and travel journalism in places unfamiliar, exotic, and far from home.

Whether you're a seasoned traveler or have yet to venture beyond your hometown, Zero to Travel has practical travel advice tailored to you. This weekly podcast will help you travel the world on your terms, no matter your previous travel experiences, safely and within your budget. Host Jason Moore covers many types of travel, from crossing the country in an RV to sailing the world, with the help of a wide range of guests.

Join Vincent Ebrahim, star of the International Emmy and Peabody Award-winning The Kumars at No. 42, as he explores his ancestral homeland. Over the course of eight episodes, this podcast takes you along on Ebrahim's travels across India, with stops in Mumbai, Gujarat, Delhi, Agra, West Bengal, Darjeeling, Kolkata, and the Himalayas. Along the way, he shares his adventures, from motorbiking through mountain regions to visiting the world's largest outdoor laundry to meeting the monks of the Dalai Lama's monastery, all while searching for answers about his heritage at his grandfather's birthplace. My Indian Odyssey is a deeply personal audio diary and an enthralling listen.

When you're going through a major life change, sometimes the best thing to do is pack your up bags and head out on an adventure. After his popular culture podcast and long-term relationship both came to an end, Brendan Francis Newnam saw an opportunity to follow his dreams of pursuing a travel podcast. In Not Lost, Newnam travels to new places, from Montréal to Mexico City, and learns more about them by getting invited to dinner at a local stranger's house. Heartfelt and sincere, Not Lost is a podcast as much about the people who live in a place as it is about the place itself.

If you're curious about travel from the perspective of global entrepreneurship and international affairs, Tayo Rockson's As Told by Nomads is going to be your new favorite podcast. Every week, Rockson brings listeners the stories of nomadic individuals—technologists, artists, diversity activists, and specialists in consciousness among them—with a focus on business, culture, travel, and making a difference in the world.

What's most fun about traveling? For many, it's stopping to sample the signature food of every place you visit. Field Guide to Eating in Canada is all about exploring the many different culinary experiences available in one of the world's most diverse countries. Your host is food writer and cookbook author Meredith Erickson, a passionate advocate of Canadian cuisine. From celebrity chefs to family-run restaurants, Erickson covers local dishes and delights across Canada and celebrates the people who make great food.

Globetrotters Podcast is a podcast for travelers by travelers. This bi-weekly podcast, created and co-hosted by Jonathan Otero, Saskia Hatvany, and Maximille Gonzales, covers everything you might want to know about traveling basically anywhere—from Thailand's secret Monkey City to the Ukraine—featuring a wide variety of fascinating and travel-savvy guests.

Maybe, like more and more people, you're loving working from home. But why stop there? What if you could work remotely from anywhere? If becoming totally Location Independent sounds like a dream, The Offbeat Life is a must-listen. Host Debbie Arcangeles interviews digital nomads and remote entrepreneurs about finding their purpose, creating income from their passions, freeing up their life, overcoming setbacks, and more, plus practical stuff, like negotiating AirBnB stays. So, stop dreaming, and start listening to this podcast.

If you’re obsessed with all things travel and all things true crime, here's the to-die-for podcast for you. Twisted Travel & True Crime combines the two in a way that's utterly gripping. Each week, host Sandi Allen will tell you a true crime story that intersects with a wild travel tale. She provides historical and cultural context to help you better understand the place where the terrible event, from a mysterious disappearance to murder, happened, as well as the victims and the perpetrator.

The Travel Podcast is hosted by a team of experts who love travel just as much as you do. Listen in to get insight, ideas, and advice about where to travel next and what to do while you’re there. Plus, you can expect to hear regular roundups covering what's trending, places you may want to avoid, the top travel news, and great travel tips and possibilities you might not have even considered.

Join the travel experts at Wanderlust magazine as they take you on a sensory journey through some of the world's greatest travel destinations. Canoe through the Mississippi, explore Vietnam by rail, take a 2,800-mile trek across the entire length of Morocco, and much more. Stuck at home but still yearning for adventure? Wanderlust: Off the Page will give you an opportunity to explore the world from the comfort of your couch.

Each week on The Travel Diaries, journalist Holly Rubenstein interviews an exceptional guest—for example, stage and screen legend Miriam Margolyes—about their travel experiences and adventures across the world. The discussions with diverse famous travelers all have one thing in common. On this podcast, you'll be transported to places around the world through the seven chapters of each guest's life's travel diaries—from their earliest childhood travel memory and the first place they fell in love with to their favorite hidden gem and the place at the top of their bucket list.

Explore the world while never leaving your recliner with Armchair Explorer, a podcast the Sunday Times calls thrilling stuff. Every month, get treated to an exciting journey as intrepid travel writers tell stories of their adventures in places from the Andes to the Amazon, from the mountains of Kyrgyzstan to Easter Island. Each episode is cut documentary-style, complete with music and cinematic effects, to create an immersive storytelling experience.

Consider JUMP your personal invitation to go on an adventure. Join host Jackie Nourse, also known as “Traveling Jackie,” through a mix of guest interviews and anecdotes, solo episodes, and raw personal accounts of her travel experiences, from spending a week hiking on Italy's Amalfi Coast to leading a group trip in Croatia. If you dream of traveling, this podcast is dedicated to motivating you to take a leap and see the world for yourself.

Traveling is great fun, right? Well, not always, and not for everyone. On the comedy podcast Beach Too Sandy, Water Too Wet, listen in as hosts Xandy and Christine Schiefer perform dramatic readings of one-star reviews written by real people with some, uh, not-so-real problems. Wherever you're planning to explore, don't do it before listening to these hilarious reviews! From Michelin Star restaurants to cat cafes, this podcast talks you through the delightfully bad reviews of anywhere you'd like to go (or not).

Looking to have more exciting travel adventures? Want to travel smarter and cheaper? Travel Goals is a podcast that's going to help you travel better and more purposefully. With the help of intrepid travel journalist Portia Jones, you'll learn everything you need to know about actionable travel hacks and travel inspiration. Jones chats with top travel experts to bring you in-depth discussions about all of the latest travel trends. The podcast also includes on-location episodes in a wide range of exciting destinations.

The First Mile is hosted by Ash Bhardwaj and Pip Stewart, two travel journalists dedicated to bringing you untold stories from the world of adventure. This podcast navigates the ups and downs of world traveling. Renowned experts answer questions about how they got into travel writing, planned remote expeditions, and living a life of adventure. Previous guests include author Monisha Rajesh, explorer Levison Wood, filmmaker Reza Pakravan, and travel writer Leon McCarron. Dispatches have come from Annapurna, Nepal, and Whanganui, New Zealand, among a myriad of exciting locales.

Discover the world from both a local and a traveler's perspective with this podcast. Where to Go is brought to you by the team behind the award-winning DK Eyewitness travel guides. Each fortnight, tune in as hosts James Atkinson and Lucy Richards chat with local experts about the places they have chosen to call their home, from the Caribbean Island of Jamaica to on site at London's Kew Gardens), including their personal connections to their home, what makes it so special, and the best things for visitors to see and do. Atkinson and Richards also invite some very special guests to chat about their favorite travel destinations and travel advice.

The Big Travel Podcast explores life-stories in travel. Listen in as celebrities, authors, athletes, politicians, television personalities, musicians, actors, soldiers, activists, adventurers, and everyday people from all over the world take you through their life's traveling adventures. Along the way, you'll laugh, cry, and cringe. But through it all, you'll grow a deeper appreciation and love for traveling.

One of these things is not like the others, and in this case, that's a very good thing. Not a travel podcast per se, this groundbreaking audio experience from renowned music producer and performer Maejor offers a globe-hopping tour of healing sounds around the world. From Machu Picchu, Japan, and Jamaica to California, Detroit, and Atlanta, each episode of this ambitious podcast offers a profound journey through specific frequencies to discover and connect to a higher sense of well-being. Whether you want inspiration for your next trip or just want to turn your customary dog walk or morning commute into a trip for all the senses, Maejor Frequency is a fascinating deep dive into the surprising benefits of intentional frequency.