Find Your Next Caption: Top 81 Travel Quotes for Instagram

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Need a bit of inspiration for your next Instagram post while on holiday? Then my friend, you’ve hit the jackpot! I’ve searched and searched until I found the best captions and travel quotes for Instagram, and added them to this post!

To make things even easier, I’ve also categorized them so you can easily browse through the list and find the perfect caption for your travel photos.

Whether you want something funny, romantic or the perfect short caption in a foreign language, you’ll definitely find it below!

Quick Picks for Your Stay

Here are some of my favorite travel Instagram quotes and captions that will work perfectly with your pictures:

  • It’s bad manners to keep a vacation waiting.
  • On the road bliss.
  • “Two roads diverged in a wood and I –   took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.”

1. Funny travel quotes Instagram

Who doesn’t love a funny caption under their Instagram post? Below I’ve included some short captions and quotes that I’m sure you’ll love!

  • Catch flights, not feelings.
  • An adventure a day keeps the doctor away.
  • Let’s wander where the Wi-Fi is weak.
  • “Once the travel bug bites, there is no known antidote.” – Michael Palin
  • I didn’t choose the princess life, the princess life chose me
  • It’s bad manners to keep a vacation waiting.
  • Vacation mode: on. Stress levels: off
  • I only collect one thing: stamps on my passport.
  • I follow my heart … and it usually leads me to the airport.
  • Tan lines and jetlag fade, but memories last forever.
  • In a relationship with: my passport.
  • I need a three-month vacation four times a year.
  • This is my resting beach face.
  • Travel tip: Pack half the clothes and twice the money.
  • What the shell?
  • Will travel for food (and a good sunset).
  • On a strict pasta and gelato diet

2. Love travel captions for Instagram

Traveling with your partner? Here are some great captions that you can add to your Insta post or story!

Two hikers standing on a hill with a quote overlay: "Exploring with you is my favorite adventure." @MISSTOURIST
Two people sitting on a beach swing with a quote overlay: "Adventure awaits, and we're in it together." @MISSTOURIST
  • Meet me under the palms.
  • Paradise isn’t a place. It’s a feeling.
  • Adventure awaits, and we’re in it together.
  • Love knows no borders.
  • Love at first flight.
  • Exploring with you is my favorite adventure.
  • We go together like passport stamps and jet lag.
  • Forever wandering the world together
  • Travel buddies for life.
  • Love takes us places.
  • We plan to fill every chapter of our story with travel.
  • All you really need is love and a passport.
  • Couples who travel together stay together.

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3. Destination-based travel Instagram captions

Below you’ll find the perfect travel Instagram captions for specific destinations, from Italy to New York and some other popular spots.

  • City lights and New York nights
  • Aloha from paradise
  • What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas
  • London: 99% chance of rain, 1% chance of sunshine
  • LA vibez
  • Hustle and bustle of the Big Apple
  • Neon lights and Vegas nights
  • British accent: Still a work in progress
  • Eating my way through Italy.
  • Left my heart in Morocco.
  • California dreaming
  • Miami: Where style and sunshine collide
  • Sun-kissed and carefree in Hawaii
  • A taste of la dolce vita in Italy

4. Road trip travel captions

Hitting the road? Then here are some cool travel captions that you can use for your pics!

A scenic road through a desert with a quote overlay: "Always take the scenic route." @MISSTOURIST
An open road through a forest with a quote overlay: "No maps, no plans, just me and the open road." @MISSTOURIST
  • Always take the scenic route.
  • On the road bliss.
  • No point in unpacking… I’m ready to hit the road again soon!
  • Dreaming of the open road
  • The world’s your oyster.
  • No maps, no plans, just me and the open road.
  • On the road again.

5. Foreign language captions for Instagram

I’m sure I’m not the only one who loves to add Instagram captions in the mother tongue of the place that I’m visiting! If you feel the same, then here are some amazing captions in Italian, French and Spanish.

View of Rome with the Italian flag and a quote overlay: "Viva Italia!" @MISSTOURIST
Person lounging in a hammock on the beach with a quote overlay in Spanish: "Viviendo mi mejor vida en esta playa." @MISSTOURIST
  • Pays de merveilles
  • Bella Italia
  • Je ne regrette rien
  • Veni, vidi, vici.
  • Bonita la vida
  • Encontré el paraíso aquí
  • Viva Italia!
  • Rester c’est exister mais voyager c’est vivre.
  • Buono come il pane
  • Escápate de lo ordinario
  • Paix, amour, voyage
  • La vita è una combinazione di pasta e magia
  • Tout est possible
  • Viviendo mi mejor vida en esta playa

6. Inspirational travel quotes for Instagram

Are you the friend who gets a bit philosophical, anytime you can? Then check out these inspirational Instagram travel quotes, I’m sure you’ll love them all!

  • Life is short and the world is wide. Better get started.
  • “Two roads diverged in a wood and I –   took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.” – Robert Frost
  • Don’t be a tourist, be a traveler.
  • Falling in love with the journey, not just the destination
  • “Every dreamer knows that it is entirely possible to be homesick for a place you’ve never been to.” – Judith Thruman
  • The best things happen outside of our comfort zones.
  • “I am never happier than when I am alone in a foreign city: it is as if I have become invisible.” – Storm Jameson
  • “Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.” — Anita Desai
  • I feel most at home when I’m exploring the world.
  • “I read; I travel; I become.” ― Derek Walcott
  • Until you step into the unknown, you don’t know what you’re made of.
  • “Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • We vacation not to escape life but for life not to escape us.
  • Tired feet, happy heart.
  • “We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves.” — Pico Iyer
  • Life is not meant to be lived in one place.

Tips on finding original travel quotes for Instagram

Woman wearing headphones sits by a large window, holding a smartphone and using a laptop. She looks out over a city skyline at sunset.

I don’t know about you but I love originality when it comes to pictures and captions for Instagram! That’s why I wanted to make this section to help you find or come up with some cool, and lesser used quotes and captions for your Instagram feed!

  • Browse on Pinterest (trust me, this never fails, Pinterest is full of gold when it comes to quotes and pics)
  • Get inspiration from books (check out our post with some of the best travel books that you can get your inspiration from)
  • Local sayings (pay attention while out, I’m sure you’ll hear at one point certain phrases that the locals use, or you can even ask around like those serving you in the restaurants or hotel staff, if they know any)
  • Keep an eye on the environment (you can find all sorts of things, from cool name streets, graffiti, street art, messages on windows, these can all make really good travel captions for your Instagram photos)
  • Use lyrics from songs (I love adding lyrics from my favorite tunes on my Insta photos and if you’re looking for some inspiration then check out our post with the top songs about travel, I’m sure you’ll find something there)  
A man with a backpack overlooking a scenic view with a quote overlay: "I feel most at home when I'm exploring the world." @MISSTOURIST
A person with outstretched arms on a beach at sunset with a quote overlay: "Life is not meant to be lived in one place." @MISSTOURIST

Final thoughts on these top travel quotes for Instagram

Hope you enjoyed reading these travel quotes for Instagram and found some golden ones that you can use for your future photos from your holiday!

My advice is to copy some of your favorites in your notes, so you can have them there all ready to use when posting the picture!

You can also check out our other post with some of the best travel quotes that could work for Instagram as well!

If you have any other quotes and captions that you want to share with us, just drop a comment below with them!

Happy exploring,

Victoria


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