How many times we will not have seen a movie that immediately moves us to other worlds and it only takes a few minutes when it ends that we are already in front of the computer looking for information of that place that will take us to the scene of the movie and will turn another traveling dream into reality. We leave you a selection of what we consider the 10 best travel movies
1. Towards Wild Routes
One of the movies that we have seen more times and that motivate us the most when embarking on a trip. Treats the story of a young idealist who leaves all his belongings and savings to charity to set sail for Alaska where he discovers the true meaning of his life, in the middle of nature.
Based on a true story, with an incredible interpretation and a great soundtrack that make it our number one travel movie.
How to get it? Towards Wild Routes - Horizontal Edition [DVD]
Towards Wild Routes. The 10 best travel movies
2. Wild Soul
One of the last travel movies that we have seen and that we liked the most. It transmits sensations similar to Towards Wild Routes. In this case it is also based on the true story of a young woman who without any experience in survival tries to travel the more than 1600 kilometers of the Pacific Summit Trail, in an attempt to find herself after a period of her life complicated.
How to get it? Wild Soul [DVD]
Wild soul
3. Motorcycle diaries
An adventure movie in which two young people embark on a long journey through the Latin American continent with an old motorcycle. A journey of 4000 kilometers leaving Buenos Aires, which lasted eight months, from Argentina through Chile, Peru, where they visited Machu Picchu and Colombia to Venezuela. It is based on the travel diaries of Che Guevara and Alberto Granado.
How to get it? Motorcycle diaries [DVD]
Motorcycle Diaries. The 10 best travel movies
4. Memories of Africa
A film that inspires travel or return again and again to Africa. All you need to do is listen to the background soundtrack of Memories of Africa to quickly teleport to the African continent. With it incredible landscapes, sunsets and starry nights await you.
A great interpretation of the great Meryl Streep makes it another essential in our List of travel movies. .
How to get it? Memories of Africa (Ed. Horizontal) [DVD]
Memories of Africa
5. Eat, pray, love
A movie that shows us scrap from three of our favorite countries: Italy, India and Bali in Indonesia. It tells the life of a woman who decides to abandon her monotonous life by making a trip around the world. The film is based on Elizabeth Gilbert's autobiographical bestseller.
How to get it? Eat, pray, love [DVD]
Eat Pray Love. The 10 best travel movies
6. The mission
Another of the movies we've seen dozens of times. Masterfully interpreted by Robert De Niro and Jeremy Irons, it tells the story of a Jesuit and a mercenary. The landscapes where the tropical jungle movie takes place, next to the Iguazu Falls, are impressive. Without neglecting the soundtrack, one of the best we have ever heard. A true work of art.
How to get it? The Mission [DVD]
The mission
7. Seven years in Tibet
It tells the story of a famous Austrian mountaineer, Heinrich Harrer, who in 1939 made an expedition to the Himalayas to reach the top of Mount Nanga Parbat. A great photograph and incredible landscapes, set in Tibet (although filmed in Argentina), make it a great travel movie.
How to get it? Seven Years in Tibet [DVD]
Seven years in Tibet. The 10 best travel movies
8. Gorillas in the fog
One of the trips that we have in mind for a long time is Uganda and to be able to see the gorillas in their natural habitat. Whenever we see Gorillas in the Mist our desire increases and surely this traveling dream will soon be fulfilled. It is based on the true story of Dian Fossey who travels to Africa to study the life of gorillas, ending his life dedicated to protecting and caring for them.
How to get it? Gorillas in the fog [DVD]
Gorillas in the Mist
9. The art of traveling, one of the best travel movies
A little known film, but no less interesting and inspiring travel. It tells the story of a boy who cancels his wedding at the last minute and decides to go on a trip through Central America.
During the trip he begins to discover himself, while visiting different countries, where he shows some of the realities you face when traveling alone and in countries with a culture very different from yours.
How to get it? Art of traveling [USA] [DVD]
Art of traveling
10. Memories of a geisha
One of the films that motivated one of our trips: Japan for free. It tells the story of a nine-year-old girl who is loaned by her parents to work in a Geishas house. The stage is mainly located in Kyoto, in the neighborhoods of Gion and Pontocho, and in other scenarios such as the Fushimi Inari Taisha shrine.
How to get it? Bd-Memoirs Of A Geisha [Blu-ray]
Memories of a Geisha. The 10 best travel movies
We want to finish this selection with one of the phrases of the work Towards Wild Routes, which we consider summarizes life itself: "The best thing I can do with death is try to take advantage of life".
