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A comment on Ask HN: I'm missing travelling in pandemic. How do you satisfy your wanderlust?.

Re:Ask HN: I'm missing travelling in pandemic. How do you sa... by rococode on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @05:39PM (#25130869)
Walking videos on Youtube! The good ones are high quality, stabilized, and don't have any commentary. Very relaxing to watch and you get a nice closeup view of another city. Here's one of my favorite channels: https://www.youtube.com/user/Rambalac

I like watching them while exercising, and they also serve well as ambient background noise while you work. I'm partial to Japan but there are similar channels and videos for just about every major city. Here are a couple others I found just now:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsFheWkimsU (Rome)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTqDSjyxHjE (Oslo)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuEdf1jOtdU (Shanghai)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1XsfoJ10yM (Budapest)

The keywords to look for are "video walk", "virtual tour", etc. If you do prefer to have commentary like a tour guide, I'm sure there are videos with that too.

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Re:Ask HN: I'm missing travelling in pandemic. How do you sa... by amit_bhalla on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @03:38AM (#25134445)
This is such a nice idea. I wonder why did I never know about it. Thank you.

Does anyone know if there is someting similar at Vimeo?

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Re:Ask HN: I'm missing travelling in pandemic. How do you sa... by ysfah on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @06:47PM (#25131433)
This is really great - thanks for sharing!
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