Take me far, far, away (YouTube)

Morran

Given that traveling seems to be very limited for the foreseeable future - help me travel through the internetz!

Specifically I'm looking for video content (4k) which will give me a sense of being somewhere else. Walking tours, museum tours, churches, temples, cities. Maybe sports, like downhill skiing, cykling or parachuting?

Preferably from a source easily and cheaply available through my smart tv - I assume this means YouTube, but I'm open to other suggestions as well!

ceres

I don't want to sit and find it right now because I theoretically have other things I should be doing, but I learned from my FIL last summer that there is an entire youtube genre focused on roller coaster reviews that give a first-person pov. There are a ton of them, and quite a few are for roller coasters long since retired, so if you're in the market you might find that interesting.

Enc

Walking tours of Malta, Havana, etc. have been really great and easy to find. They are all over youtube and you get a bunch of neat places.

This is one channel we have watched some of:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3iId8RgPvwX7niHr37YjKg

Lord Palington

I remember watching this video a year or so ago and enjoying it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwPHIABVdg8

It's a British guy that lives in Japan. A lot of his other videos look really click-baity, but this one is nice. He travels with a friend to a small Japanese town to try out their ramen, and they stop at a few places along the way. It's winter, and there's snow everywhere.

Mayabird

Virtual train rides?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zomZywCAPTA&feature=emb_title

JaysonFour

ceres wrote: »

I don't want to sit and find it right now because I theoretically have other things I should be doing, but I learned from my FIL last summer that there is an entire youtube genre focused on roller coaster reviews that give a first-person pov. There are a ton of them, and quite a few are for roller coasters long since retired, so if you're in the market you might find that interesting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTsQlu2VS-Y&list=PLxk2TNUMCwxk8Llup7j8qtxEsc0B2ih5I

Theme Park Reviews has a playlist of roller coaster videos that numbers over 2300 different coasters from all over the world.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rDjPLvOShM

If you're willing to do a little digging on YouTube, you can find videos like the above- where you can take a real-time train ride through the Norwegian countryside in the middle of winter up to the Arctic Circle. This video is ten hours long and just makes for some really great white noise and just watching the world go by.

Local H Jay

There's a few channels I watch which are just silent videos of people walking around Japan, one of the more aesthetic looking counties

https://youtu.be/GAd9FH8DPTs

This one I fall asleep to all the time

https://youtu.be/Hndf5JRwUL0

dispatch.o

Anthony Bourdain is my go-to. I know it's not really first person footage but his narration and the places he went are made better and more real by what he felt being there.

The only downside is that it might make you want to travel more.

Edit: He visited Beirut and Vietnam multiple times on different shows and it felt surreal and personal with each revisit.

Quid

If you have the funds and setup for it, virtual reality is amazing for this. I've spent time on the edge of my couch riding roller coasters.

Krathoon

https://youtu.be/TusmSgYoDhQ
Gotta have Doom Patrol.

Krathoon

Keanu tells you about his bikes.
https://youtu.be/O4iGNXsqghs

Krathoon

https://youtu.be/LtKe1ZnyRK8

Krathoon

This is a classic. The Gordon Ramsay bit was hilarious.
https://youtu.be/MjZUOMNd5JM

Krathoon

Sorry, I thought this was a general YouTube thread. Didn't check where it was at.