Travel bucket list

What's on your travel bucket list?

I don't mean general things like "go to Iceland", but more specific like "go ice climbing in Iceland" or "walk the Coast to Coast" instead of "go to England".

I have a very long travel bucket list which only gets longer as I keep reading other people's blogs... I'm going to need a 2 or 3 life-times to do everything but dreaming is free, right?

I only put things on my list that are actually feasible, so you won't see "Climb Everest" here because, as amazing as it sounds, it's never going to happen.

This is (part of) my list, in no particular order:

- Swim with a whale shark (Thailand?, Maldives?...)
- Climb Kilimanjaro (Tanzania)
- Snorkel in Antarctica
- See the pyramids and Abu Simbel (Egypt)
- See the Northern (or Southern) lights
- Trek to see the gorillas (Uganda/Rwanda)
- Play with grey whales in Baja California (Mexico)
- Float on the Dead Sea (Israel)
- Sleep in a cave in Petra (Jordan)
- Dive in an aquarium
- Experience the Holi festival in India
- Ride the Trans-Mongolian train (Russia, Mongolia, China)
- Dive in the jelly fish lake (Palau)
- Sleep in an igloo
- Drive through the US coast to coast in a massive motor-home
- Eat sushi in Japan
- Spend St. Patrick's day in Ireland
- Trekking in Nepal
- Scuba dive with seals
- Ride the Orient Express from London to Venice

There are many more, but I think that's enough!! :o)

So... what's on your list??


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First of all, awesome topic!

Now on to the list.

Trek to see gorillas, Rwanda/Uganda
Dive Galapagos
Dive Truk Lagoon, Micronesia
Dive Easter Island (wanted to go the ever since seeing PA's pictures)
Horse riding/camping Whistler, Canada to see grizzly bears
Skydive Dubai (so I can get a picture with Palm island in the background)
Bran Castle (Dracula's castle) for Halloween
La Tomationa in Bunyol
Oktoberfest in Munich
Listen to jazz in New Orleans
Summit Kilimanjaro
Trek the Inca trail to Machu Picchu (doing that this year)

I could literally spend hours writing a list if I had time but here are a few. Reply to this

That's a fun one...

Well, for one, I've been blessed enough to do a lot already in my own bucket list...so the list is actually getting shorter for me...and I have to start to be creative if I want to keep it endless....

I actually divide my bucket in two parts....what I plan to try to do in the next two to three years...even if it's not going to happen...and than...what will come later...maybe...

The first list is either in the planing, or already booked...if things go as scheduled obviously...

In the diving world...diving on a liveaboard in Socorro, diving Fakarava and Rangiora with the sharks...but also PNG, Puerto Madryn, the whales of Tonga in August (free diving), Mergui Archipelago, Fernando de Noronhga in Brazil,...that should keep me happy...

On land...doing the Canyons with Leslie and Tiffany...plus Matchu Pichu with them (did it twice)...and see their face on their first Disney Cruise...

What I still really need to make time to visit...Mali, Madagascar, Bhutan...and obviously all the Stans...plus the polar bears out of Churchill....

What is planned, but not in 2012...the trans-manchurian with Leslie and Tiffany...and getting around the Balkans properly...and oh yes...it's time to get to Ukraine for some discoveries (you can laugh!)...

And what I really want...is to be face to face diving with a Great White out of Protea in SA....they saw it three times last year....that's a dream!

It's funny to see that soon it will be 5 years that I'm on TB....a lot has happened since...did a small count, and blogged on 83 countries... Reply to this

I'm loving your lists, guys!!!

There seem to be some things most of us have in common, like seeing the northern lights or ride the trans-siberian/mongolian train

Stephanie/Andras... please reconsider about the scuba diving: I was really scared at first an it took me 6 days to complete my PADI open water (when it normally takes 3)... I was scared of the breathing, the sharks, etc... but it's totally worth it!!!!!



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Oh, thought of a few more:

- swim in a bioluminescent bay (although I might have "missed the boat" on this one as swimming has since been banned in the one I know best - Vieques Island, Puerto Rico)
- (from Andras) take a cruise. I agree - this might be fun. Not our typical style of travel, but definitely a "travel experience" that would be enjoyable to try at least once.

@Deni and Dax - I want to want to learn to dive... The dive waters I've had access to are the pitch black, frigid waters of the north Pacific teeming with dangerous strangle-hold seaweed (and other beautiful things, supposedly). So I guess I'm less afraid of diving, and more afraid of not being able to see through deep water and of getting tangled-up in a kelp forest. I never even considered sharks! Ha. But from the envy-producing photos the TB divers produced, I can see it must be a much different experience in the warmer, clear waters. Reply to this

Hike to the top of Mount Roraima and Parakupá Vená (Angel falls)

Watching the sun set on Ofu beach, sleeping on the sand under the stars and awake to the sunrise.

Hammocking in the Seychelles

Mali (Dogon Country, Timbuktu, the Great Mosque in Djénné)

Watching the Packers win the SuperBowl at Lambeau Field

Hike the rainforests of Irian Jaya/Papua New Guinea

Island hopping around the Moluccas (The Spice Islands)

Kayaking in amongst the icebergs of Greenland

Meeting Moloka’I – the missing piece

BASE jumping off a cliff in Norway!
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Wow! Where do we start...(its a bit late at night for me to remember everything but here's a sample)

- Ride the trans Mongolian
- Sleep in a Mongolian yurt
- Stay in the ice hotel
- See the Northern lights
- Cruise Antarctica
- Swim with whale sharks
- Walk the Tongariro crossing in NZ (it was closed when we were there)
- Road trip the USA (ideally on a motorbike)
- Gaze at St Basil's
- Eat at the Fat Duck restaurant in Bray, UK
- See polar bears
- Visit the Moais on Easter Island
- Dive the blue hole, Belize
- Safari in Africa
- See the pyramids at Giza
- Trek the the gorillas in Rwanda
- Chill out/snorkel in the Maldives
- Watch the sunrise over the Taj Mahal
- See the bears in Canada

...Ummm, I could go on all night, so much to do so little time/money! Its good to dream though Reply to this

The "Bucket List" is one of my favorite movies, not so much for where Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman visit, but for the friendship they develop and the ultimate lesson that they learned. (Note: For those who wish to climb the Mount Everest used in the movie, it was filmed at a much lower altitude near Arapahoe Basin, just west of Denver. But I don't think that will count for climbing Mt. Everest!).

Like Maisondubonheur I will have to divide my list into the near term and the longer term. In the near term, I am trying to complete visits to 100 countries, so those trips are already planned. On those trips, I will only do a couple "bucket list" items:
- visit some South Seas Islands
- tour the Sydney harbour
- trek some of the easier trails of New Zealand
- visit Machu Pichu
- sail around Cape Horn
- walk the walls of Dubrovnik

In the long term I would love to do some overland trips including the Silk Road from Ashgabat, Turkmenistan to Xian, China; then on to Beijing to walk the Great Wall and see the Forbidden City; returning to Europe by way of the Trans-Mongolian Railroad; and from Zanzibar to Cape Town.

I note that my list doesn't involve many adventurous activities. I tend to like to see places and talk to people, so walking is about the extent of my doing. Reply to this

It's quite hard to answer this I think since every year there seems to be something new added on my bucket list. Interesting tho, anyways here's my bucket list so far (Some I've checked off already)

*Hang glide in Rio de Jeneiro (overlooking Christ the redeemer)
*Experience Angkor Wat(Cambodia)
*Bungee in the 3rd of the tallest Bungee (New Zealand)
*Ride the Camel all the way to Petra (Jordan)
*See the Aurora Borealis in the Northern Territories (Canada)
*Do a road trip all across Canada
*Ride the Gondola and kiss a guy while I'm on it (Venice)
*Trek Machu Pichu (Peru)
*Climb the Mount Everest Base Camp (Nepal)
*Walk beside a cow on the city street (Inida)
*Take an amazing photo of the Taj Mahal (India)
*Camp in a tipi or whatever they're called in the middle of nowhere (Mongolia)
*Stay in the Ice Hotel
*Smoke a joint in Amsterdam
*Smoke a joint in every country I visit
*See the Glaciers (Antartica)
*To stand right at the southern most tip of the world, Tierra del Fuego (Argentina)
*take a wacky photo in the Salt lakes (Bolivia)
*See the famous pyramids (Egypt)
*Ride an elephant (Thailand)
* Climb Mount kilamanjaro
*Have a kung fu pose photo at the Forbiddien City (China)
*Attend the Full Moon party (Thailand)
*Party it up in Ibiza (Spain)

and the list goes on and on and on....
* Visit all the 7 wonders of the world
*Visit all the 7 ancient wonders of the world Reply to this

I have never actually written it out and seeing this topic I will do this over the next 3 months...hold me to it fellow Travel Bloggers. Reply to this