Amateur Traveler

Award-winning travel blog and podcast helping real travelers plan trips worldwide.

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Written By

Chris Christensen

Travellers

Solo

Focus

General

Popularity

53 / 100

Running Since

2005

Posts

1,911

Weekly

Last Updated

Oct 2026

About Amateur Traveler

Amateur Traveler is the long-running travel blog and podcast created and owned by Chris Christensen. Chris started the Amateur Traveler podcast in July 2005 and has since built a very large archive, with more than 1,900 posts and a podcast that recently passed its 1,000th episode. The site publishes destination guides, itineraries, and travel planning resources across every region of the world and targets travelers planning one- to two-week trips. The site is regularly updated, with roughly weekly posts, and articles are illustrated with the author’s photos and heavy crosslinking and resources for planning trips.

What makes Amateur Traveler itself is the podcast-first, guidebook-in-audio approach that Christopher Christensen has steadily refined for two decades. The writing voice in the excerpt is practical, conversational and packed with itinerary detail and local tips, and the episodes pair interviews with repeat guests to deliver lived experience rather than hype. This is the place to go when you want a destination deep dive or an audio primer before a trip - the archive covers everything from Mongolia to small US regions, and new episodes and posts appear on a weekly rhythm. The site’s long history and searchable regional indexing make it especially useful for choosing and planning specific trips.