A2Wanderlust2 min
The Queen of Kailua Beach
Valentina only planned a quick nap on a Hawaiian beach—but the local crabs had bigger plans for her.
Wanderlust stories in Spanish
Spanish wanderlust stories written for learners. Each story is graded to a single CEFR level, so you can pick ones you mostly understand and learn new words from context, tapping any word for its translation.
A1Wanderlust3 minThe Sky at Three
Rodrigo flies to the coldest place on Earth for a sky full of green fire. His phone has one job. His phone fails.
A0Wanderlust2 minThe Green Bus in the Rain
Rodrigo is alone in a big new city with no friends and no sun. When the cold rain comes, a stranger under a small roof might change his day.
A1Wanderlust2 parts2 minThe Woman Who Traveled by Letter 1: A Ticket from Lisbon
For fifty years, Luciana's letters have seen the world for her. Today the mail brings something no letter can answer: a plane ticket with her name on it.
C2Wanderlust8 minThe Scent of Broken Promises
A perfumer can identify three thousand aromatic compounds by name. The one her grandmother catalogued in Zanzibar isn't any of them.
PROA1Wanderlust2 minThe Loudest Man in Bali
Rubén flies halfway around the world for a silent retreat where no one speaks. There's just one problem: his nose has other plans.
PROB1Wanderlust4 minThe Name on No Gravestone
Nobody in Tlacolula remembers the Estrada family. That's because the Estrada family never existed—at least, not here.
PROA2Wanderlust3 minThe Map That Moved
A solo hiker deep in the Canadian mountains unfolds his paper map—and watches the rivers on it begin to move. Lost in the wilderness, he must decide: follow the impossible directions, or trust his own feet.
A1Wanderlust2 minWhere Am I?
She only meant to sleep for a few minutes. The train had other plans.
PROB1Wanderlust3 minThe Last Ferry from Tsim Sha Tsui
Julián has thirty seconds to catch the last ferry across Victoria Harbour—but once he's onboard, he realizes this boat isn't going where he thinks.
A2Wanderlust2 parts4 minThe Stone That Remembers 1: The Horse in the Stone
Touch the wrong stone at sunset on the Great Wall and you might land in the year 1570, where a young soldier's lost horse could cost him everything. Noa has exactly one day to get home. The rescue is taking longer than that.
PROC1Wanderlust6 minThe Inspector at the Burning Ghats
A Spanish hotel inspector whose entire identity revolves around sterile perfection is sent to rate guesthouses in Varanasi—India's holiest and most chaotic city. What begins as professional horror becomes something he never planned for.
PROA0Wanderlust1 minThe White Birds in the Yard
Five exhausted white birds land in an old man's empty yard—and carry his dreams to a place he has never seen.
PROC1Wanderlust6 minThe Statistician Who Went to Thimphu
Iván Herrera, a ruthless statistician, travels to Bhutan determined to dismantle the myth of Gross National Happiness with hard data. But his spreadsheets weren't designed for what he finds there.
PROC1Wanderlust5 minThe Nose That Learned to Touch
A legendary perfumer who lost her sense of smell travels to the lavender fields of Provence, desperate to recover what defined her—only to discover that the world has dimensions she never thought to explore.
PROB2Wanderlust4 minThe Only Player on the Train
Paloma boards a sleeper train expecting a staged murder mystery dinner—but as the clues stop making sense, she begins to suspect she's the only one playing a game.
PROB2Wanderlust5 minThe Authentic Castle Experience
A family of three books what they think will be a luxurious stay in a Scottish castle. The owner, however, has a very different idea of what 'authentic' means.
B2Wanderlust3 parts5 minThe Brewer of Room 13 1: Do Not Knock Back
Rule number one at The Golden Key hostel in Prague: if something knocks on the wall of Room 13 at night, whatever you do, don't knock back. A broke Guatemalan backpacker just paid for six nights there.
PROC1Wanderlust9 minThe Breathing of Tides
A record-chasing freediver travels to Jeju Island to share her expertise with the legendary Haenyeo sea women—only to discover that her lungs, trained for depth, have never truly learned to breathe.
B2Wanderlust5 minThe Plant That Sang in C Major
A Spanish botany professor gains access to a restricted greenhouse at Kew Gardens—and discovers a plant that shouldn't be able to do what it does.
PROC2Wanderlust9 minWhat the Delta Didn't Take
A musicologist from Buenos Aires travels to Mississippi searching for Robert Johnson's mythical crossroads — and finds instead a pawn shop where the price of playing the blues is the one memory you can't afford to lose.
PROA1Wanderlust2 minFifty Euros a Night
A family finds the cheapest hotel in Amsterdam—but when they arrive at the address, there's no building. Just a small boat rocking on the canal.
PROB2Wanderlust5 minThe Angle of Disappearance
A Mexico City food critic is sent to review a legendary taco stand — and discovers the cook is his high school math teacher who vanished without a trace ten years ago.
PROC2Wanderlust9 minThe Ash That Won't Fall
Twenty years after covering the siege of Sarajevo, a Spanish war correspondent returns to her old hotel room and finds a cigarette still burning in the ashtray—and her younger self sitting on the bed, struggling to write the dispatch that would define her career.