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85 Best Solo Travel Quotes and Captions for Instagram 2024
Finding the perfect travel quote to caption your post can be a nightmare.
Picture this: you’re travelling the world alone and are attempting to take a quick pic to share with your friends online.
You spend a gruelling hour and a half setting up your camera on a tripod, getting the perfect angle with the perfect lighting. You spend the next half hour running to and from the camera striking that perfect pose before the self-timer runs out, but alas, your work isn’t done!
You’ve finally taken that golden, perfect picture! Yet after all that comes the hardest task of all: deciding what to caption it.
The only thing as fulfilling as experiencing the beauty of the globe, is sharing that beauty with others.
As travellers we often take it upon ourselves to educate travel newbies of the immense beauty and diversity this world holds. Thanks to modern technology, the best way to do that is with social media.
Whether it’s a photo of a tropical rainforest, a metropolitan city, or a selfie down at the beach, the only thing more difficult than taking the perfect picture is thinking of the perfect quote/caption to go with it.
To help ease this daily struggle, here are 85 solo trip quotes and captions to boost your insta game!
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Inspirational Travelling Alone Quotes
Travelling alone takes guts.
That’s not my opinion, that’s just a fact.
We’re all such small fish living in a massive pond and it’s a lot scarier when you’re in that pond alone.
Being alone with your thoughts can be terrifying but also life-changing.
Here are some amazing quotes about solo travel you can use in your social media posts to empower yourself and inspire others to do the same.
- “Don’t be scared to walk alone. Don’t be scared to like it.” — John Mayer
- “To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the most pleasant sensations in the world.” – Freya Stark
- “I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” – Mary Anne Radmacher
- “Some journeys can be only travelled alone!” – Ken Poirot
- “If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.” – Maxwell Maltz
- “The inner journey of travel is intensified by solitude.” – Paul Theroux
- “The best trip is the journey you take in finding yourself.” – Angela Vallely
- “Solo travel not only pushes you out of your comfort zone, it also pushes you out of the zone of other’s expectations.” – Suzy Strutner
- “I learned my strengths and my weaknesses. I experienced the exhilaration of the ups and the despairs of the lows and most of the feelings in between… I learned courage and I learned it myself” – Ann Stirk
- “Sometimes the journey has to be traveled alone in order to appreciate the strengths that lie deep inside of you.” – Steven Aitchison
Solo Female Travel Quotes
The only thing that takes more guts than being a solo traveller, is being a female solo traveller.
Unfortunately, the world can be a scary place for women sometimes. It’s the reason people worry about whether or not it’s safe to visit Marrakech or need lists of the safest destinations for solo female travel.
These inspirational travelling girl quotes about solo trips will remind all you gals that you’ve got this!
- “I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life’s a bitch. You’ve got to go out and kick ass.” – Maya Angelou
- “Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.” ― Mae West, American Actress
- “As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.” ― Virginia Woolf
- “Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away” – Barbara De Angelis
- “The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.” – Ayn Rand
- “Girls don’t wait for their prince anymore, they just pack and travel the world.” – Unknown
- “Never did the world make a queen of a girl who hides in houses and dreams without traveling.” – Roman Payne
18. “Anybody can be an explorer if they want to be. You can be an astronaut if you want. Figure out what you want to do, and then go do it.” – Helen Thayer
19. “An adventure may be worn as a muddy spot or it may be worn as a proud insignia. It is the woman wearing it who makes it the one thing or the other.” – Norma Shearer
20. “Just watch, all of you men. I’ll show you what a woman can do…I’ll go across the country, I’ll race to the Moon… I’ll never look back.” – Edna Gardner Whyte
Solo Travel Instagram Captions
As solo travellers, we often juggle booking flights/day trips, working day jobs, packing suitcases, and staying safe while also trying to have the best experiences of our lives!
So while you continue working hard, I’ve compiled some solo travel captions for your amazing travel pics.
While all the previous quotes could be used for inspirational captions, if you’re looking for a shorter, snappy caption look no further!
21. Ridin’ Solo – Jason Derulo
22. If anyone needs me I’ll be right here
23. Let’s wander where the WIFI is weak
24. Always say yes to new adventures
25. What’s on my bucket list? Everywhere.
26. Tans and jetlag fade, but memories last forever.
27. BBN. Be back never.
28. An adventure a day keeps the doctor away.
29. Tired feet, happy heart.
30. Finding paradise wherever I go.
31. Girls just wanna have sun.
Funny Instagram Captions for Solo Travellers
These funny/witty captions will break up the usual emotional quotes and captions we all see on our travel feed.
When travelling alone, we only have ourselves to make us laugh!
Luckily for me, I’m quite the comedian. And you can be too with these funny Instagram captions!
32. Catching Flights Not Feelings
33. Maybe you can’t buy happiness, but you can buy plane tickets.
34. I’m a travel addict on the road to recovery. Just kidding, I’m headed to the airport.
35. I want someone to look at me the way I look at a travel brochure.
36. Me: “I want to travel more”, My bank account: “Like, to the park?”
37. Someone told me to ‘take a hike,’ so I did
38. I’m a succa for nature.
39. I wish travel therapy was covered by my health insurance.
40. Jetlag is for amateurs
Travelling Alone Captions for the Beach
I’ve seen a lot of amazing views all over the world: beautiful museums, historical landmarks, breathtaking landscapes. But somehow the number of photographs I have of these memories is grossly outnumbered by the number of photos I take at the beach.
Let’s face it, sometimes, you just can’t beat a day at the beach!
And, in my opinion, a day at the beach is not complete without a photoshoot! My day trip to the Beaches Neighbourhood in Toronto was spent mostly doing just that on the beach.
Whether you’re looking for awesome surfing quotes, nature captions, ocean quotes, or a beach-focused caption, you’ll love these.
Check out these awesome captions for your next solo beach Instagram pic.
41. Life’s a Beach
42. Don’t worry, beach happy
43. No buoys allowed
44. Tropic like it’s hot!
45. BRB, going to soak up some vitamin sea.
46. This is my resting beach face.
47. I’m just a beachy kinda girl.
48. Sandy toes. Sun-kissed nose.
49. Mermaid kisses and starfish wishes.
50. If it requires a bikini, my answer is yes
51. Salt in the air. Sand in my hair
52. High tides and good vibes
53. I’m an aquaholic.
54. How to get a beach body: Step 1. Have a body. Step 2. Go to the beach.
55. SPF is my BFF
56. When in doubt, paddle out.
57. A midsummer ice cream.
58. If you’re not barefoot, then you’re overdressed.
59. Beach hair, don’t care.
60. Ocean lover
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Location-Specific Solo Travel Captions
These location-specific caption ideas may not be entirely useful unless you’re posting a photo from one of the below countries/cities but I couldn’t resist including all these cringy and punny solo travel Instagram captions!
Hopefully, they’ll give you some insperation to create your own witty captions for wherever in the world you are.
61. Italy stole a pizza my heart
62. Eiffel in love with Paris
63. I <3 NYC
64. Let’s taco ’bout going to Mexico.
65. Left my heart in Morocco.
66. California Dreamin’
67. Viva Las Vegas!
68. Czech this out!
69. Doing it for the Amster-gram.
70. Leaving Germany is going to be the wurst.
71. When in Rome…
72. London, baby!
73. There is Norway I’m ever coming home
74. I love you so matcha, Tokyo.
75. HUNGARY for adventure!
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Food-Related Solo Travel Captions
If you’re like me, half of your camera roll will be taken up by pictures of food from all over the world.
Food is one of my favourite aspects of travelling so here are inspirational some solo travel captions about food to help when posting your foodie photography!
Also a quick tip: When posting about food it’s considerate to not mention calories or dieting, even as a joke as a lot of people may be negatively affected by this.
If you aren’t sure what else to say, look to these great caption ideas.
76. If only taking a picture made this meal last longer.
77. “Food for the body is not enough. There must be food for the soul” – Dorothy Day
78. There’s no “we” in fries.
79. Wining and dining
80. Good food = good mood
81. Fed girl summer
82. Festival of flavours
83. You gotta nourish to flourish
84. Always in the mood for food
85. Goodies for foodies
Solo Travel Quotes and Captions Wrap Up
People often say it didn’t happen unless you got it on film. Now, everything can be captured with the click of a button.
I was able to take selfies at 15,000ft in the air!
But those pictures will never be complete without an inspiring caption to help them pop on your social feed.
Boost your Instagram with these unique, funny, and downright amazing captions. I’ve used them across my account @ninaclapperton to share my favourite pics of Hobbit houses and delicious food from around the world.
Tag me in your posts so I can see how you use these solo travel quotes!
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Chloe Meek
Entering her third year of studying Media, Journalism and Publishing at Oxford Brookes University, Chloe has a passion for writing, editing, and reading. She hopes to create her own feminist blog in the future.
In terms of a full-time career, she hopes to work in publishing, creating, and promoting diverse books for children in order for them to better understand and become comfortable in the world/society we live in.
Chloe lives in the UK and although she has travelled around Europe, she has large ambitions to solo travel and to take on the world!
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