Travel writing prompts for your travel journal

A travel journal is a wonderful keepsake souvenir and an amazing way to reflect on your experiences and get the most out of your travels. These travel writing prompts are set up to guide you through your traveling experience with prompts for before your trip, daily travel writing prompts for during your trip, and writing prompts for reflecting on your travels afterwards.

Travel writing prompts for before your trip

Prepare for your travel adventures with these travel writing prompts to help you reflect on your travel plans and your expectations for your trip. These pre-trip travel writing prompts also a great way to spend your time while you’re travelling on a plane or by road!

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What’s your itinerary? What are you planning to see and do? Where will you stay?
What do you think you’ll most enjoy about your trip?
What are you most excited to see or do on your trip?
What are you nervous about for your trip?
Why did you choose this travel destination?
Who are you traveling with? What do you think your travel companions will most enjoy about this trip?
What are you most excited to eat on this trip?
What research or planning work have you done for this trip?
What are your goals for this trip? Do you want to relax? Do you want to see as many travel sites as you can? Will you focus on historical sites? Will you focus on experiencing the area’s cuisine? Do you have more than one focus for this trip?
What about this trip is outside your comfort zone?
What about this trip is within your comfort zone?

Daily travel writing prompts for your trip

As you go throughout your travels, use these travel writing prompts to reflect on each day of your trip and keepsake your special travel memories.

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What sites did you see today? What did these travel sites feel like? What was the vibe? What emotions did you experience taking in these travel sites? Did these travel sites remind you of other locations you’ve visited? What did you learn? What did these travel sites make you think about or reflect on? What’s the most surprising thing you saw? What’s the most surprising thing you learned? What was the highlight of the sites you saw today? Would you recommend these sites to a friend traveling in the same area?
What did you eat and drink today? Were these foods new or familiar to you? What was the best thing you ate today? What was the worst thing you ate today? What surprised you about the foods you ate today? Where did you eat today? What was the ambiance like?
Where are you staying? What are the accommodations like?
Who did you meet today? Where were they from? How did you meet them? What did you talk about? What did you learn?
What thoughts, reflections, or new ideas arose today during your travels? What brought about these thoughts?
What emotions did your travels today bring up? What brought about these emotions?
What was the best thing about today?
What was the funniest thing that happened today?
What was the most unexpected thing about today?
What was the strangest thing you saw today?
Which of your travel experiences today would you recommend to a friend? Which of your travel experiences today would you recommend that a friend skip if they were visiting this location?
What are you looking forward to about tomorrow?

Travel writing prompts for after your trip

When you’re home from your travels, use these travel writing prompts to reflect on your trip, what you learned, and how you’ll take your travel experiences with you.

What was the highlight of your travels?
What was the worst experience of your travels?
What was the funniest thing that happened on your trip?
What was the most unexpected thing that happened on your trip?
Would you visit this location again? Why or why not?
What site did you most enjoy seeing? Why?
What was the strangest thing you saw on your trip?
What surprised you most about this trip?
What was the best food or drink you tried you on this trip?
Who was the most interesting person you met on this trip?
What did you learn on this trip? What is the most important thing you learned on this trip?
What travel experience brought about the most intense emotions for you? Why do you think that is?
How did your travel experiences impact your relationships with your travel companions?
How would you describe the culture of the place you traveled to? What’s different about the culture compared to the culture where you live?
Is there anything you did, saw, ate, or learned that you want to incorporate into your daily life at home?
Did your travel experiences change your worldview in any way?
What emotional impact did this travel experience have on you?
How did this travel experience change you?
If you had to summarize your trip in two sentences, how would you summarize it?