115 Best Travel Instagram Captions for Your Next Vacation

It’s always the right time for a vacation. Your toes in the sand, a beach read and sunny blue skies… what could be better? Or maybe you’re a city person, ready to explore an urban jungle and find a cute café. Perhaps something a little more exciting is your speed, like zip-lining in a rainforest.

However you like to travel, one thing is for certain: You’re sure to come back with a camera roll full of all your amazing adventures. Your travel snaps aren’t just fun to share with friends, they can also take you right back to your relaxing getaway even after you’ve returned to every day life. From a weekend getaway to a family trip, these are the best travel captions for Instagram to share your memories.

• If you travel far enough, you meet yourself
• Let the sea set you free
• Tropical state of mind
• Nature never goes out of style
• City lights and late nights
• Exploring streets less traveled
• Travel far, travel wide, travel often
• On the road again
• Travel, eat, repeat
• Go where the road doesn’t
• Walking through history
• Unwinding under the sun
• Vacation mode: on, stress levels: off
• Unplugged and unwinding
• Sun, sand, and good vibes
• Just another day in paradise
• Born to roam

• The mountains are calling, and I must go
• Find me where the wild things are
• Chasing waterfalls and wild adventures
• Happiness is planning a trip with the people you love
• The world is too big to stay in one place
• Taking on the world, one city at a time
• Passport: ready, worries: left behind
• Living that out-of-office life
• Catching flights and soaking up the rays
• Exploring new horizons, one destination at a time
• Falling in love with the journey, not just the destination
• Solo travel for life
• Exploring new places, making new memories
• Wander far, live fully
• Collecting moments, not things
• Cruising through life, one wave at a time
• Sea you later
• Gentle breeze and salt spray
• Wander more, worry less
• Good things come to those who book flights
• Escaping the ordinary one trip at a time

• Vacay all day.
• Life is better in flip-flops.
• Already dreaming of my next vacation.
• Meet me under the palms.
• Don’t spend your money on things. Spend it on experiences!
• No point in unpacking... I'm ready to hit the road again soon!
• Paradise isn’t a place. It’s a feeling.
• Sunshine is the best medicine.
• Always take the scenic route.
• BRB, going to soak up some vitamin sea.
• Wanderlust and adventures await.
• Let’s wander where the Wi-Fi is weak.
• I’ve found my happy place.
• What’s on my bucket list? Everywhere.
• Take only pictures, leave only footprints.
• Always say yes to new adventures.
• Life is short and the world is wide. Better get started.
• My new routine: Journey. Explore. Discover. Repeat.
• Only going places that spark joy.
• Keep calm and travel on.
• Will travel for food (and a good sunset).
• The best things happen outside of our comfort zones.
• Constantly searching for views that take my breath away.
• I feel most at home when I’m exploring the world.
• Until you step into the unknown, you don’t know what you’re made of.
• Life is not meant to be lived in one place.

• My perfect vacation: feet up, head back, eyes closed!
• I need a vacation so long, I forget all my passwords.
• In a relationship with my passport.
• This is my resting beach face.
• Tropic like it's hot!
• Out of office.
• Do not disturb.
• The art of doing nothing.
• Gone exploring. Leave a message after the beep.
• An adventure a day keeps the doctor away.
• Catch flights, not feelings.
• I follow my heart … and it usually leads me to the airport.
• Greetings from [insert location]. I live here now.
• I travel so my life isn’t disrupted by routine.
• Maybe you can’t buy happiness, but you can buy plane tickets (and that's kind of the same thing).
• Skipping ahead to the part of my life where I travel the world.
• Tan lines and jetlag fade, but memories last forever.
• I’m a travel addict on the road to recovery. Just kidding, I’m headed to the airport.
• All I need is a three-month vacation four times a year. That’s really not asking for much.
• BBN: Be back never.

• "Travel is about the gorgeous feeling of teetering in the unknown." – Anthony Bourdain
• "Travel brings power and love back into your life." — Rumi Jalalud-Din
• "Adventure is worthwhile." — Aesop
• "Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world." — Gustave Flaubert
  
• "I read; I travel; I become." ― Derek Walcott
  
• "I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them." — Mark Twain
  
• "Jet lag is for amateurs." — Dick Clark
  
• "A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving." — Lao Tzu
  
• "Travel far, travel often, and travel without regrets." — Oscar Wilde
• "To travel is to evolve." — Pierre Bernardo
• "The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself." — Wallace Stevens
• "Adventure is out there!" — Up
• "Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow." — Anita Desai
  
• "I am one of those who never knows the direction of my journey until I have almost arrived." — Anna Louise Strong
• "Not all those who wander are lost." — J.R.R. Tolkien
• "We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls." —Anaïs Nin
• "An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered." — G.K. Chesterton
• "Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling." — Margaret Lee Runbeck
• "A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." — Lao Tzu
• "To travel is worth any cost or sacrifice." — Elizabeth Gilbert
• "One’s destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things." — Henry Miller
• "Surely, of all the wonders of the world, the horizon is the greatest." — Freya Stark
• "Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• "For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move." — Robert Louis Stevenson
• "This is what holidays, travels, vacations are about. It is not really rest or even leisure we chase. We strain to renew our capacity to wonder, to shock ourselves into astonishment once again." — Shana Alexander

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