24 Gorgeous Travel Blogs You’ll Love in 2025

By Pete Rojwongsuriya Dec 26, 20240

As some of you may know, I was in the design industry for over 10 years working as a freelance web designer before I started this travel blog. In fact, it was the majority of my income for 6 years before I went full-time on this blog.

I really do value well-designed websites and with this article, I would like to celebrate the creativity of some of the most beautiful travel blogs out there, as well as dive deeper into each one of them, what makes them special, and hopefully, to inspire you to experiment and stands out from the generic travel blogs we often see. Without further ado, here are the 24 best travel blogs to follow:

Looking for the best adventure and backpacking blogs to follow? Check out:10 Best Adventure & Backpacking Blogs To Follow In 2024

The State of Design In the Travel Blogging Industry

Travel blogs nowadays are starting to look all the same, with generic off-the-shelf templates, difficult navigation, way too many unnecessary pop-ups, and don’t get me started on scroll hijacking (why do people do this?).

I believe it is because creating websites has become more accessible and blogs can be easily built with automated tools, allowing bloggers to focus more on writing, marketing, and SEO.

This is all good for beginners but when these blogs grow, most bloggers forget about design and instead double down on SEO and marketing, sometimes sacrificing user experience for profit. Their identities are diluted over time and hence why most of the travel blogs you see nowadays feel similar to one another.

Great Design & Excellent Storytelling

To promote great design in the travel industry, I have decided to scour the internet in search of the best travel blogs out there that have great user experience, excellent storytelling, and websites that push the envelope of what travel blogs can be.

24 Most Beautiful Travel Blogs of All Time

What I love about it: Roadbook is my new favorite travel blog this year. It combines excellent travel photography, minimal design, striking typography, and great stories very well. Reading through the blog felt like I was flipping through stunning lifestyle books from great publishers like Kinfolk.

The content of the blog is also pretty unique, with a significant focus on aesthetic travel style, recommending cool boutique hotels, restaurants, and bars accompanied by great photography that makes you want to be there. Their Bangkok Travel Guide is, of course, of big interest to me since I was born and raised there, and I gotta tell ya, some of the places they recommended, I didn’t even know existed!

If you are looking for a travel blog with top-notch content as well as extremely pleasing aesthetics, be sure to check out Roadbook.com. It doesn’t get any better than this.

2. Rojo Cangrejo

What I love about it: This is a travel blog I selected purely of its artistic style because the content is in Spanish but the design language of this blog is one of the most unique designs I have seen on a travel blog.

Rojo Cangrejo’s design consisted of a lot of blocks and lines laid out in a minimal way while relying on contrasty colors like turquoise and stunning photography to catch your attention and it works.

Marta, the writer behind Roko Cangrejo is also an excellent photographer who is able to capture the little intimate moments we often experience while traveling. Her article about Sharpening Knives in the Japanese Town of Sakai is a great example of that. If you are looking for a uniquely designed travel blog, checking out Rojo Cangrejo is a no-brainer.

3. Wander Lush

What I love about it: Wander Lush is a great example of a travel blog that is packed with excellent information while retaining a clean and minimal look. Emily, the owner of the blog, is also a talented photographer, and her work really shines here, thanks to the website’s minimalist design. Here is a great example of her work: 52 Unique Things to Do in Tbilisi.

Her incredible work doesn’t just shine on her blog but also spreads across other verticals like her awesome Tbilisi City Guide, a wonderful 375-page digital ebook, and more.

Wander Lush is the perfect definition of highly detailed content meeting minimalism, and if you like the idea of creating a distraction-free design for your travel blog, you are going to love Wander Lush.

4. The Flore’s Blog

What I love about it: Our newest entry to the list is this incredibly designed travel blog, The Flore, written by Florian Kriechbaumer—an awesome, multi-talented man who is currently traveling the world and documenting all of his experiences on his blog. I love his use of bold typography, which strikes the perfect balance between identity and content. It’s not the easiest thing to achieve, for sure.

All of his stories are meticulously documented with incredible photography, excellent storytelling, and additional media such as maps, setting this website apart from the others on this list.

A great example of this is found in his blog entry, A First Glimpse of Thailand—an incredibly well-documented travel story about none other than my little home city, Bangkok. As you scroll through the page, it feels like flipping through a travel magazine, with stunning photos accompanied by easily digestible stories. The Flore definitely stands out from the rest of the websites on this list.

5. HeyCiara

What I love about it: If you find the other blogs mentioned here a little too minimal and are looking for a travel blog design with a lively and vibrant character, you are going to love HeyCiara.

HeyCiara.com is a lovely travel blog by Ciara, a travel blogger from Texas with a great sense of colors and style that is reflected not only through her blog but also through her content and photos.

She has that popular social media look completely nailed in her photography with dreamy colors, great individuality, and perfectly crafted compositions that are ideal for the fast-paced, social-media-driven world of today.

The blog is a great example of bringing that trendy vibe to the blogging format, and if you want to bridge that gap with your travel blog, HeyCiara.com is a great source of inspiration.

6. Anywhere We Roam

What I love about it: Anywhere We Roam may seem like a typical clean and minimal travel blog but this UK-based travel blog runs by Paul and Mark is a great example of how photos speak a thousand words.

The layout of the travel blog merely serves as a white canvas to emphasize the atmospheric and immersive photography that Anywhere We Roam is a master at. Their photography and writing are top-notch and have the ability to transport you to the location in question.

A great example of this can be seen in articles like Impressions of Havana – A Story from the Streets where the duo takes you through the street of Havana exploring its culture and vibe through atmospheric photography and immersive writing that will make you feel like you are there yourself.

7. Notes From the Road

What I love about it: One of my new favorite travel blogs that I recently discovered is Notes from the Road, a travel blog by Erik Gauger who travels around the world, may it be by road, by kayak, or on foot, bringing us all sorts of travel stories that are personal, powerful, and funny at the same time.

Out of the sea of travel blogs that are often focused on planning, Notes from the Road, instead focuses on the unvarnished, messy truth of travel, told from the perspective of a regular guy, experiencing whatever random situations the world throws at him. It is an interesting take on travel stories that reminds me of those awesome travel books by writers like Bill Bryson.

The design balances big full-width photos of excellent quality together with easy-to-digest stories that will keep you scrolling to the end. It is a minimal design that allows the content to speak for itself, all the while being easily accessible, which makes for a great travel blog design, in my book. If you like minimal and clean design that is heavy in photos and text, be sure to check out Notes from the Road.

8. The Blonde Abroad

What I love about it: The Blonde Abroad is probably one of the most well-themed travel blogs on this list. Her taste in colors doesn’t just show in her beautiful travel photos but also spills over onto her side with heavy use of pastel colors.

It is almost like reading her travel diary when going through her blog. You can see that she uses a lot of decors like making all her photos look like they were taken from a Polaroid camera and a great use of a variety of fonts, like the handwriting font you can find on her blog that makes it even more personal to read.

It is clear that the owner, Kiki, has great taste in design and her blog reflects that very well. One of the coolest things that I like about her blog is that, depending on when you visit the website, the theme of her blog changed slightly to reflect the current season, which I think was a great touch. That is no easy task and I have to give that to her and her team. If you like a well-themed travel blog, check The Blonde Abroad out.

9. World of Wanderlust

What I love about it: Another great themed travel blog I recently found is World of Wanderlust, a beautiful and easy-to-navigate travel blog with a clean and minimal design, yet still retains the unique carefree character of the blogger, Brooke Saward.

I really like all the beautifully curated photos of her solo travel from around the world, especially the photos from Thailand, my home country. The photos are grainy and warm, which makes them feel like you are reading an old travel diary which is awesome.

The layout is also clean and minimal, allowing her photos to shine while making it easy for new visitors to get around her content without feeling overwhelmed like other travel blogs. If you are looking for a minimal yet unique travel blog with beautifully graded travel photos, be sure to check out World of Wanderlust.

10. Roads & Kingdoms

What I love about it: Roads & Kingdoms is a travel blog that combines high-quality documentary-style travel photography, with excellent storytelling, and presented them in a clean and minimal, yet engaging way that is not so easy to find in travel blogs these days.

Their content stands out from other travel blogs, as they adopt a documentary-style approach not only to their photography but also to their storytelling. They captivate their viewers with gripping and engaging stories from around the world—stories that are rarely ever told by any other blogs.

The travel blog’s design is minimal and clean, allowing you to easily navigate and never get in the way of you enjoying the stunning photos and captivating stories of the writer’s adventures around the world, which is the best kind of design in my opinion. If you want to see what a perfect balance between photography, stories, and beautiful design, Roads & Kingdoms is hard to beat.

11. Another Escape

What I love about it: With producing high-quality outdoor lifestyle content in mind, Another Escape blog hit the nail in the head with its online magazine website that features engaging and authentic travel stories and stunning photography of the outdoors around the world.

Another Escape’s design shines the best when you are viewing travel stories like “The Road Taken” where the article follows a couple who traded their city lives to live lives on the road. The white space and simple design of the website make way for the engaging travel story and photography to surface and shine on its own.

There is a saying in the design community that goes something like this: “Good design is invisible” and I think this is exactly the case for the minimal and clean design of Another Escape’s blog. The website’s design of Another Escape gets out of your way and allows you to enjoy the wonderful stories of the outdoor world in solitude.

12. Indie Traveller

With a crisp and clean colorful layout, water-colored headlines, a well-organized structure, and a ton of well-written travel guides, Indie Traveller is an excellent example of a travel blog that maintains its unique identity without sacrificing the usefulness of the content.

What I love about it: Indie Traveller is run by Marek Bron since 2012 and what I like most about the design is its play on the color palette, mixing contrast and subtle colors together in a way that made the travel blog stands out from the rest.

The layout is also uniquely framed and organized in a way that the moment you arrive on his blog, you know that he isn’t using any generic WordPress theme, which is a first impression that is hard to come by these days.

His content and writings are also the highlights of the travel blog. An article like “Where To Go Backpacking: Key Routes Around the World” is a great example of how organized and structured the content on Indie Traveller is.

The short paragraphs, a ton of white space, and the display of those unique diagrams and photos together with the pastel-like color palette make reading Indie Traveller such a blast which is something I can’t say for many other generic travel blogs.

13. Cookiesound is Traveling

What I love about it: Cookiesound is probably one of the most badass mother-daughter travel duos in the travel blog industry. The travel blog is run by Nisa and Ulli Maier, a mother-daughter travel photography team who travel to off-the-beaten-path places while sharing exciting travel stories through writing and travel photography in a real, honest, and sometimes sarcastic way.

Their journey began with a twelve-month-long road trip on a 4×4 through Africa. If that doesn’t make you want to hear their stories, I don’t know what would.

Their travel blog design is also one of the cleanest you will find out there. Since they are photographers, their travel blog design reflects the importance of storytelling through visuals with clean typography and massive photos to tickle your wanderlust.

I really love their photography and it is something I aspire to be as a travel photographer. Their photography often reflects travel as it should be, rough and tumble while showing a more human part of life in the places they visited. To me, that is one of the most powerful ways of telling travel stories.

Here’s a great example of their storytelling mastery: Travelling On The Infamous Iron Ore Train In Mauritania. Their crisp photography and their witty writings keep their experience real and down to earth which many can relate to. Travel is tough, and it’s not all flowers and sunshine like what you would see on Instagram. Check them out and let me know what you think of this blog.

14. RICE / POTATO

Next up, we have a Bangkok-based travel duo from Taiwan and the Netherlands who run a travel blog that wants to break out from the usual trope of travel content like the top 10 things to do in Bangkok. Let me introduce to you, Etty and Chris from RICE / POTATO.

What I love about it: RICE / POTATO is one stunning travel blog, so much so that the moment you see their travel blog, you know immediately how important design is to them. It’s all in the details they put on their travel blog, from the quirky color scheme of pastel blue and orange to the carefully laid-out image composition of each article.

A great example of how their unique take on design helps emphasize their content is in their “9 Thai handicrafts you’ll actually want to buy” article where, with their elaborately designed header image that grabs your attention immediately, each item in the list is also accompanied with minimal yet colorful images with enough amount of text to get you interested.

15. Salt in Our Hair

What I love about it: Salt in Our Hair is a fun and colorful take on travel blog design that I rarely see in the travel industry. Nick and Hannah combined their top-notch photography with a well-designed layout, and fun typography and deliver them at extreme efficiency.

And by efficiency, I mean their travel blog is really fast, which is very important for a travel blog since most of our audience are often on their phones reading the blog.

One of the many problems I often have with travel blogs is that they are often slow to load due to how unoptimized their travel blogs are, may it be the overkill photo sizes, poorly designed mobile layout bad server, etc.

That is not the case with Salt in Our Hair though. Google PageSpeed score of the blog clocks in at 90, which is higher than most travel blogs out there. They really did a great job here at creating a beautiful travel blog without sacrificing performance.

16. 12 HRS

What I love about it: 12 HRS has a concept they stick to that I really like. You guessed it, it’s the “12 Hours in” series that provides not just a detailed guide on how to spend your limited time in a city, but also the guides are clearly divided into hours with phenomenal typography and stunning photography. Imagine a high-quality magazine but on the web.

17. I am Aileen

What I love about it: Aileen is one of my favorite travel bloggers. She writes her travel articles from the perspective of a third-world country passport holder (like me) and she shares her story with amazingly thorough detail, pastel-colored photography, and an easily digestible list.

The aesthetic of her articles just screams how much attention she paid to design. Plus, her articles are always accompanied by a stunning cover photo with on-point typography.

A great example of her unique aesthetic can be seen in her “DIY Trip Hong Kong Itinerary: 5 Days (More Or Less) W/ Macau Day Trip” article.

18. Camels & Chocolate

What I love about it: Camels & Chocolate is one of the most colorful travel blogs out there. Kristin, the owner of the blog, really paid a lot of attention to her blog’s design from the on-point color scheme to the aesthetic of her photography.

Every element of the landing page works in harmony with her content. Articles like “Real-Life Narnia: A Guide to Jasper” also put focused on photography, making it feels like we are traveling with her.

19. Along Dusty Roads

What I love about it: Along Dusty Roads authors, Andrew and Emily are one of the best travel photographers in the travel blogging game. All of their articles are accompanied by abundant information and stunning photographs that will inspire anyone to visit the place.

Their article about The Forgotten Animals of Bolivia has not just amazing photography but also a clean design that put the focus on the content first and foremost and is easily digestible. I remember reading their blogs extensively when I was traveling in Colombia and Ecuador.

20. Expert Vagabond

What I love about it: If I want to plan something adventurous, I always visit Expert Vagabond. Mathew is a great adventure photographer and an excellent writer. His travel blog is designed for optimum information consumption with a simple layout, clean and content-centric.

Expert Vagabond never failed me at getting concise information quickly without sacrificing the ability to dive deeper into a place if I wanted to. His article about Hawaii is a great example of his excellent writing and inspiring photography.

21. Sidetracked Magazine

What I love about it: Sidetracked travel blog is a great example of a travel blog that excels at everything from unique adventure stories to a beautiful layout that doesn’t dilute the content.

An article like “Paragliding off the Alaskan Mountain Range” shows off their ways of getting first-hand stories from adventurers and accompanies it with adventure photography in between to give you a sense of scale. You will feel the rush of adrenaline by just reading through their articles.

22. Classe Touriste

What I love about it: Classe Touriste takes you off the beaten path further than most travel blogs do. The travel blog is designed to almost feel like you are reading a newspaper full of adventure stories with big typography, photography in a grid, and a clean layout.

For example, Classe Touriste will take you to places like North Korea and convince you to do the same with their absolutely stunning photography.

23. Our Wild Abandon

What I love about it: Our Wild Abandon is a creative and quirky travel blog by the duo Kyla and Jill with stories that will make you want to run away with them and do long road trips around the world forever. It’s like On the Road book by Jack Kerouac envisioned in the 21st century and split into smaller stories for internet consumption.

Their layout design, for example on their Yosemite story, is almost invisible, making way for the stories and photography to shine and take over.

24. Asiyami Gold

What I love about it: Asiyami Gold is a travel blog run by Asiyami Gold who focuses on blending stunning photography with design and travel in a way that felt professional, yet personal.

Her photography is almost as if it came straight out of a travel and fashion magazine. The muted color scheme, sharp detail, and old-school grain effect give her content a unique blend between magazine-like fashion and travel that you don’t often find on a travel blog.

Instead of having a travel blog design competing for attention, the design of her travel blog stayed aside with a minimal black & white design allowing her unique style of photography to stand out front and center.

To me, that is a great design choice right there. Asiyami Gold travel blog design is functional yet it stays out of the way and lets the content shine on its own. This strike of balance is not easy to accomplish, yet her travel blog was able to do it.

It’s Time To Start Your Own Travel Blog

Feeling inspired? Want to start a travel blog of your own? WordPress is still one of the best ways to start for most but in order to do that, you will have to first find a hosting company.

Hosting is simply a rented storage (server) that stores all your website data from the WordPress program to all the content of your travel blog including images, text, etc. With this rented hosting server, you can serve (get it?) your website to literally anyone in the world 24/7.

The hosting server is basically the foundation on which your travel blog will be built so picking the right one at the beginning of your journey will save you a ton of headaches along the line, trust me.

If you are starting out and do not have a lot of budget, the cheapest option and a great place to start is either SiteGround or Hostgator. They are beginner-friendly, very affordable starting at less than 3 USD, easy to install WordPress, and you will have the option to scale up whenever you want.

Since you are starting out, I recommend you go with Hostgator’s Shared Hatchling Plan which cost only 2.75 USD per month or if you want something more plug-and-play with WordPress, SiteGround’s WordPress StartUp Hosting Plan which starts as low as 5 USD per month is also a great option too. From there, you can scale these packages up to meet the growing demand of your travel blog.

That said, if you are looking for the very best option no matter the cost, I highly recommend you go with BigScoots instead. A lot of big names in the blogging world use them and they are well-known for their top-notch customer service.

BigScoots’s Starter Plan is a great place to start. It is a little pricier than SiteGround and Hostgator but the customer service is much better and you will have the reassurance that your travel blog is in good hands.

With the hosting sorted out, you now have a living, breathing (not literally), travel blog that you can shape however you like, and all that is left for you to do is create kick-ass travel content for all.