10 best travel audiobooks to inspire your next big trip

West With The Night

West With The Night is one of the best travel audiobooks for those who love adventures. It’s the memoir of the lifelong adventurer Beryl Markham. Through this audiobook, she talks about her experiences while living in East Africa. In those times, when the world’s greatest adventure stories were almost exclusively told by men, Beryl was a skilled and fearless pilot, and she published her memoir in the 1940s.

This travel audiobook also talks about the adventure of Markham when she became the first person to ever fly nonstop from Europe to America.

Running in the Family

An inspired travel narrative, Running in the Family is written by the talented storyteller Michael Ondaatje. In this travel audiobook, he talks about the personal experiences he faced while returning to his native country of Sri Lanka in the late 1970s.

This audiobook on traveling has a series of poetic reflections on the homecoming of Ondaatje and his reunion with his dearly missed family. Ondaatje makes the listening experience of this travel audiobook very beautiful with his smooth narration, deep voice, and evocative imagery. One listener even states that Ondaatje’s reading opens quite another dimension to the book.

Wild

Number-one New York Times Bestseller Wild is the perfect travel audiobook for adventurers and a movie has also been released based on this book by Cheryl Strayed.

The audiobook talks about the true story of one brave woman and her trekking experience. She starts her trek along the Pacific Crest Trail in search of a healing escape from the loss and hardship she faced in her life. The story talks about her grueling yet rewarding journey with a rawness that instantly grips the listener.

Laurel Lefkow has done the narration of this audiobook and her deep voice has beautifully explained the physical and emotional challenges that Cheryl Strayed faced along her transformative 1,000-mile journey.

Walking the Nile

Walking the Nile is an inimitable tale of resilience, survival, and sheer willpower. This travel audiobook is a highly inspiring chronicle of Levison Wood when he starts on an epic journey down the lifeline of civilization in northern Africa.

Levison started in November 2013 from the forest in Rwanda, with a promise to become the first person to walk the entire length of the Nile. He followed the Nile rive for nine months and traveled through six nations including Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, South Sudan, the Republic of Sudan, and Egypt – to the Mediterranean coast.

This travel audiobook talks about some adventurous travel experiences of his like camping in the wild, foraging for food, trudging through the rainforest, and enduring life-threatening conditions at every turn.

How to Travel the World for Free

Written by Michael Wigge, How to Travel the World for Free is the epic story of a man with no money, traveling the world in 150 days. Narrated by Stephen Bel Davies, this is the best audiobook on travel and tourism. The narrator keeps the listeners curiously bemused through the entire story of Wigge’s adventure.

The travel audiobook takes you through the unbelievable journey of 25,000 miles – from Berlin to Antarctica – without any money. In this audiobook, Wigge has so much to share from his adventurous traveling like, from container ships to couch surfing, and from street performance to dumpster diving.

For the Love of Europe

For the Love of Europe is written and narrated by Rick Steves and is the best travel audiobook of all time! Rick Steves has written about Europe for over 40 years and for this book he chose 100 of his favorite memories about Europe to make one inspiring story. The audiobook talks about his favorite places, people, and stories.

Through the audiobook, you’ll get to experience the mysteries of centuries-old stone circles in England, dangle from a cliff in the Swiss Alps, and hear a French farmer’s defense of foie gras.

Michael Palin: Around the World in 80 Days

If you wish to travel the world one day, you should definitely give Michael Palin: Around the World in 80 Days audiobook a try. Written and narrated by Michael Palin, this is the best audiobook on world traveling.

In the autumn of 1988, Michael Palin starts his ambitious journey to circumnavigate the world following the route taken by Jules Verne’s fictional hero Phileas Fogg 115 years earlier. Through this audiobook, he takes you through the 17 countries he crossed, various challenges he faced, and rode around the Pyramids on a camel called Michael.

On the Road

On the Road by Jack Kerouac is a timeless story of a thrill-seeking road trip. This audiobook on a road trip takes you through a chaotic ride across the United States in all its 1950s gritty glory. The story revolves around Dean Moriarty, traveler and mystic, who takes an exuberant ride back and forth across the United States.

A perfect blend of fiction and autobiography, this audiobook revolves around the 1950s times. One of the most influential and important novels of the 20th century, On the Road launched the beat generation and remains the bible of that literary movement.

A Walk in the Woods

New York Times bestseller A Walk in the Wood is the captivating true story of the adventurer and gifted storyteller Bill Bryson. This audiobook takes you through an action-packed trek along the entirety of the Appalachian Trail.

Bill Bryson narrates the audiobook himself and talks about his five-month journey on America’s longest footpath. You get to listen to some of the entertaining tales about the beauty and hardships of the unpredictable wilderness. All the wildlife encounters and human interactions are vividly described with keen attention to detail that listeners feel they are actually standing in the forest themselves.

My Life in France

My Life in France is the exemplary story of the legendary chef Julia Child, written by her with the help of her nephew, Alex Prud’Homme. This audiobook talks about how her passion started for cooking and how she faced so many obstacles and rejections before she became a famous chef.

Expertly narrated by Kimberly Farr, this audiobook has such vibrant descriptions of Paris in the 1950s that tempts the listeners to visit the French capital at least once in their lifetime.