If you cannot go on vacation or there is still a long way to go, we can travel from the sofa. It is far from being the same, but there are all kinds of content that we can watch online to take a trip around the world and enjoy it. If you don’t know where to start, these documentaries will make you want to travel.
To dangerous or unusual places or traveling the world by bicycle, with spectacular houses and villas around the world or discovering incredible cities and monuments. Whatever your favorite form of travel, these documentaries let you do it from home and on the big screen.
Pedal the world
A different, original and adventure-filled trip. A one-episode documentary lasting around an hour and a half and following Felix Starck. Starck has decided to cycle 18,000 kilometers in a year and he will do it through 22 different countries that he is showing in this time. We will be able to enjoy landscapes, customs, routes, gastronomy and all types of accommodation.
Watch Pedal the world on Netflix
Dark Tourist
Far from a relaxed vacation is the journalist David Farrier in this Netflix docuseries. Eight episodes in which Farrier will travel the world visiting all kinds of unusual and not always safe tourist places. Each episode takes us to a place in the world to visit different parts of it. Latin America, Japan, the United States, Europe, Los Angeles, Southeast Asia or Africa to live all kinds of crazy adventures. From shooting a cow to a World War II reenactment or a voodoo festival that we will see in this different docuseries.
The most incredible vacation homes in the world
If what you want is to dream of an incredible vacation, Netflix has the perfect reality show. The World’s Most Incredible Vacation Homes is a show with two seasons and eight episodes each. In each chapter of about 30 minutes we will see a spectacular accommodation somewhere in the world. Cabins, houses on the beach, accommodation with incredible futuristic designs and much more.
Watch The World’s Most Amazing Vacation Homes on Netflix
Lost Cities with Albert Lin
If you have contracted Disney + you can see Lost Cities with Albert Lin. A season of a National Geographic documentary in which we go to all kinds of places, all kinds of countries. The series uses classical archeology with the most modern technology and presents us with all kinds of sites through real images but also with 3D scanning that makes it even more striking.
Six episodes of about 45 minutes in a season in which we will go to Peru, Jordan, Stonehenge, Colombia, Micronesia or Israel in search of all kinds of treasures and places that will make us want to travel around the world.
See Lost Cities with Albert Lin on Disney+
The hidden wonders of Africa
In three episodes of around 45 minutes we can travel through Africa to discover incredible territories. Rwanda, Ethiopia or The Sahara are some of the chapters of this docuseries that you can see on Disney+ and that shows us spectacular landscapes throughout the continent. Nature and animals are the protagonists of these chapters if you are looking to be inspired to travel but also if you want calm and visually spectacular content.
Watch The Hidden Wonders of Africa on Disney+
magical Andes
The mountains of South America are the link between all the people who appear in this six-episode series. One of the best nature, travel, and society series. A tour from Argentina to Colombia in which its protagonists expose their bond with the mountains, how the mountain range affects their day to day, the beauty of the regions that are under them. From Ushuaia to Chile, Colombia… A documentary with great beauty of the images that it shows and ideal for nature lovers but also for any travel lover who will want to repeat this tour, who will be able to know details of the cities that are shown, of its history, of its changes.
Watch Magical Andes on Netflix
