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If you’re dreaming of far-flung destinations, picturing the scenes of bustling Paris streets, or endless Indonesian beaches, why not go one better and get a travel coloring book!
Travel Adult Coloring Book
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Coloring in is fast becoming an on-trend hobby. Known for being a great stress reliever, this long forgotten, joyous childhood pastime has become an adult domain thanks to an increase in mental health awareness and the desire to create mindfulness (plus, it’s actually really good fun!).
Perfect for a long haul flight, airport layover, or a pastime to do at home, new coloring books for adults are being printed in a huge range of themes, and who doesn’t love to be reminded of our favorite travel destinations.
From travel size coloring books for adults, to landmarks of the world coloring books, here’s a round up of the best for you!
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General Travel Coloring Books for Adults
Rainy Day Playbook: Games, Guides and Gratitude Journal
Editor’s Pick: Rainy Day Playbook
This handbag sized journal by Rainy Day is not just for coloring, it has a huge plethora of interactive pages to inspire your mind and help your creative juices to flow. Jam packed with puzzles, games, mazes, mantras and writing exercises, this book is ideal for anyone who loves to travel. And TFG’s editor-in-chief adores puzzles too, which is why she has this book!
One user shares, “I bought this journal because I have a vacation coming up and a long flight to get there! I love that this has prompts for writing all kinds of stuff about yourself and also places to write things down about your day like ‘tastiest bite or beverage’ and ‘loveliest sight’. It’ll be perfect for keeping track of everything I do in Paris!!”
Travel Between the Lines Adult Coloring Books
Travel Between the Lines color books for adults are made by travelers, for travelers. With three versions to choose from, including Mexico, Rome and a general book for Globetrotters. The fine line illustrations are created from real-life photographs taken during an around-the-world adventure of the book’s creators. Offering unique pictures, including street scenes, landmarks and decorative details, this book will keep you busy during that long layover.
Each image is paired with a short story of the creators’ travels, so you can feel the picture come to life as you fill it with color.
We’ve got the do’s and don’ts of what to add to your Rome packing list when visiting this fabulous city!
Passport to Imagination Adult Coloring Pages Travel Book
This adult coloringbook from Passport to Imagination features detailed, iconic images of countries, cultures, landmarks and people all around the world. Created in a hand drawn style, the book features designs from beginner to expert level coloring, so you can find a page to suit your mood and time allowance.
However, reviewers do warn that the pages on this book aren’t as thick as others, so this book is best for pencils and not markers.
Lonely Planet Ultimate Travel Colouring Book
For the ultimate in travel inspiration, this Lonely Planet coloring book will have you writing your travel bucket list as you color. Filled with the “world’s 100 greatest places”, this book has line drawings ready for you to shade in as you dream of visiting. And we bet it has places you never even knew existed!
What’s more, there are descriptions of each place, so you can find out a little more about the most astounding places on earth
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The One and Only Coloring Book for Travelling Adults
Full of inspiring designs, while away the hours of a long haul flight or train journey with these coloring pages travelers love by The One and Only. The perfect size to fit in your carry on, or personal item, on an airplane, this book is ring bound, so the pages fold over easily without squashing the spine. The high quality paper is thick enough for pencils, markers and even non-heavy paints.
One reviewer shares, “Really impressed with this brilliant little coloring book—it’s a great size for popping in your handbag for when you’ve got a few moments to spare.”
Crayola City Escapes Coloring Book
Crayola is a brand infamous to all art enthusiasts, and we all lusted after the huge crayon set in our youth! Now Crayola has created this cities of the world coloring book to go with those crayons and inspire the wanderlust to travel to new and exciting cities.
Created in a modern, collage style, taking in the main attractions from each city, the bold pages are fun to color and create a vivid scene for your travel inspiration. Try these pages with gel pens for a look that really pops!
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Colorit Around the World in 50 Pages Book
These adults coloring book images in Colorit Around the World are designed with true artists in mind. As well as stunningly detailed, hand-drawn images of city landmarks to color, this book has a host of other features. The top spiral binding allows you to work on each page without that annoying book bend and the artist quality paper can be used with pencils, gel pens, and markers. It even comes with a protective blotter page, that you place underneath the page you are coloring to prevent your pens from bleeding through.
If you love your art so much, you want to frame it, there are perforated edges to tear out each page with ease. Plus the book has hardback covers so it won’t get damaged as you take it on your travels.
Colorit Colorful Tropical Scenes
Colorit Colorful Tropical Scenes Book
This tropical world coloring book is also by Colorit, (as above) so it comes with a great range of artist quality features as we mentioned earlier. But if your traveling brain prefers the images of a tropical, sandy beach, with a fruity cocktail in each hand, this option might be preferable for you!
It comes highly reviewed, as one of the best coloring books for adults Amazon sells.
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Splendid Cities: Color Your Way to Calm Book
This square-shaped book by Splendid Cities has a huge range of double spread images to spend your hours on while on your long haul flight (or while you plan your next vacation). The intricate designs are beautifully created.
However, users do have a couple of complaints with this relieving stress coloring book for adults, one being that the paper isn’t thick and that markers bleed. Another is that the pictures are printed back to back and that the images run right into the spine in the middle, so it does make it difficult to color for a perfect finish.
Landmarks of the World: Color Your Way from Beijing to Barcelona
Landmarks of the World offers a plethora of adventure for the mind. Color famous religious buildings, museums, and castles, across Africa, the Americas, Asia, Australia, and Europe. Every single picture is bound to let you relive travel memories, or inspire you to plan new ones! Fascinating facts about each landmark accompany each illustration.
This is a more mature style book, with challenging images. Reviewers like the high-quality paper and that the prints are blank on the reverse.
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American Road Trip: Color Your Way from Coast to Coast
American Road Trip lets you hop across the States, from the comfort of your own new coloring book for adults. These eye-catching and comic style images are perfect for those who love the stars and stripes.
This perfect sized coloring book would be great to take on your next road trip. Reviewers have all given this book a 5-star rating, with one saying, “Great coloring book! Bought a couple more as gifts after getting mine and really liking it.”
National Parks Coloring Book
If you’re a nature lover, who like nothing more than to surround yourself with the idyllic landscapes of the National Parks coloring book, then this could be the inspired “trip” for you. It’s filled with line drawings that depict scenes from the national parks, along with illustrations of native plant and animal life. It also includes information about each park, so you can learn as you color.
It is available in either paperback, or spiral-bound, however, some reviewers have again commented that the images are printed on back-to-back pages, so it is difficult to color on both sides without spoiling the picture.
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Specific Destinations Coloring Books
Secret Destinations: Color You Calm Book
Secret Destinations has created a range of iconic travel size coloring books, in a square format, for a modern way to color. There’s a mixture of cityscapes, plus ‘object’ pages, which are great because they can be completed fairly quickly. If you would rather not embark on a big project, just color a fruit or a handbag. Our favorite page in this adult coloring book: stress relieving patterns. These ‘wallpaper’ style pages are great to kill time, with no pressure over color choices—be as abstract as you wish!
There is something for everyone here, in terms of size and style, which is the book’s strength.
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Paris Street Style: A Coloring Book
At TFG, we love to combine fashion and travel and the Paris Street Style pattern coloring books for adults helps us do just that! These fashion-forward illustrations depict street style from the Paris streets, with a range of full-page pictures, or object collages to color, depending on your mood.
This line also features a New York and Tokyo version.
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Color this Book: New York City
Featuring over 30 illustrations by artist and comedienne Abbi Jacobson, co-star and co-creator of Comedy Central’s Broad City, Color this Book for New York captures its bustling personality. The quirky images are fun to color, without the technical intricacies of some of the mandala style, detailed adult coloring books available. If you love the “Big Apple” this is for you!
Grayscale Coloring Book
This series of adult coloringbooks by Grayscale are larger in size than some of the others we have mentioned, but are great for the level of detail and intricacy of the designs. They are not the usual, “color-between-the-lines” style of art coloring book for adults but instead show the scenes in a grayscale effect, allowing you to color or paint over in your own way.
Possibly for the more advanced artist, rather than an amusing time killer for a long haul flight, but they can take you to a range of destinations, including Paris, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, London, and Venice.
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Where Can I Buy Adult Coloring Books?
Amazon adult coloring books are there by the hundreds. Some are travel themed, like the ones we have included, but you can also find stress relief coloring books for adults with detailed mandala patterns, or adult color books based on your favorite hobby or animal.
What Goes In Your Travel Coloring Kit?
Most people like to use either markers or pencil crayons for their art. Some people have commented that gel pens are great to use for detailed, intricate designs as they have a fine nib that allows you to color without going over the lines.
Don’t forget a sharpener if you use pencils though!
What do you think are the best adult coloring books amazon sells? Share your faves below!
For more travel and packing tips, please read:
- How to Survive Long Flights
- How to Have a Stress-Free Flight
- Best Noise Cancelling Headphones for Travel
- Airplane Essentials: Top Items to Make Flights More Enjoyable
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