In an earlier blogpost, I mentioned that I wanted to visit all the countries. That’s impossible, so let’s say that I want to visit/ go on a holiday in 100 different countries in my life. Before I die. If I travel until I’m 73, I can reach my goal, travelling one time a year. Let’s go for it!
So it’s doable. And where’s the fun in that? So let’s make a list. An “I want to be able to cross everything out”-list. Of the things any traveler should want to see. If you have something to add, please let me know below. Maybe I add it to the list! I’m curious :-).
THE bucketlist
1. Go to see Machu Picchu, using the Inca Trail in Peru
2. Go and visit allof the 7 “New 7 Wonders of the World”:
a. Great Pyramid of Giza (Egypt)
b. Chichen Itza (Mexico)
c. Cristo Redentor (Brasil, Rio De Janeiro)
d. Chinese Wall (China)
e. Taj Mahal (India)
f. Petra (Jordan)
g. Colosseum (Italy, Rome)
3. See the Grand Canyon from the sky (USA)
4. Yellowstone, Yellowstone, Yellowstone!
5. Go to a musical in London (Great-Brittain, Engeland)
6. See the Aurora Borealis (I will NOT die before I’ve seen this one – mark my words) (Norway, Lofoten)
7. Sleep in an ice hotel (Scandinavia)
8. Go camping! Yes, my dear, it’s on the list. It is. (Scandinavia or Great-Brittain or …)
9. Go diving. At least once. (Maybe @Australia)
10. See a Japanese Garden, in Japan
11. Drink a Guinness in Scotland (even if it’s just a little one)
13. Fly in a hot-air balloon over La Garrotxa Volcanic Zone Natural Park (Spain)
14. Walk above the clouds
15. Visit Hobbiton in New Zealand
16. See the Great Barrier Reef in Australia
17. Do a tiger-safari in India
18. See turtles in the Galapagos Islands
19. Visit the Maldives, “Paradise on earth”
20. Go whale watching… and seeing more than just a tail of a whale (it rhymes ;-))
21. Go and see Bagan (Myanmar)
22. Visit Antarctica
23. See some remains of the ancient Greek in Athens
24. Stay on board of the Trans-Siberian Express/ Trans-Mongolian Express
25. Explore the Wilds of Denali National Park, Alaska
26. See the Victoria Falls (Zambia/ Zimbabwe)
27. See zebra’s in the wild 🙂 (Africa)
28. Travel on a sailboat
29. See the real Santa Claus, in Lapland
31. Glacier National park (USA)
32. Visit Patagonia (Chile, Argentina)
33. Winterholiday in Norway: snow (and hopefully the Northern Lights)
34. See King Julian in Madagascar
35. Drink wine and eating a spaghetti in Sicily
36. An American Roadtrip
37. A cruise
38. Climb the Table Mountain in South-Africa
Visit Angkor Wat (Cambodja)
40. Eat sushi in Japan (although I really dislike sushi)
41. See the Mona Lisa (France, Louvre in Paris)
42. Sleep in a Tipi
43. Visit a national park in America on horseback
44. Reset my boundaries: go ‘canyoning’
45. Eat tapas while drinking ‘una jarra de sangría’ in Spain
46. Dinner and a Flamenco show in Spain
47. Seeing the Terracotta Army in China
48. Visit Versailles (France)
49. See the changing of the guards in London, at Buckingham Palace
51. Drink some tea in Sri Lanka
52. Seeing Cape The Good Hope (South-Africa)
53. Doing a safari in Africa
55. Gamble in Las Vegas
56. Relive Jane Austen in Bath (Great-Brittain, Engeland)
57. Climb the Eiffel Tower (France, Paris)
58. Visit Pompeii and the Vesuvius (Italy)
59. Dress all green in Greenland
60. Go to a crocodile farm (Australia)
61. Travel for two months in a row (or at least six weeks)
62. Visit all the continents (Europa, the Americas, Africa, Asia, Oceania, Antarctica)
63. Follow language classes in Italy
64. Experience a sunrise
65. Celebrate New Year’s Eve in Spain – whilst I’m eating the grapes
66. Go snorkling and get to know the underwaterworld for the first time
67. Wash and feed an elephant in an orphanage (Asia)
68. See the African Big Five in the wild: lion, leopard, elephant, buffalo and rhino (Africa)
69. Stand on Hadrian’s wall (Great-Brittain, Scotland)
70. Search for Nessie, the monster of Loch Ness (Great-Brittain, Scotland)
71. Go dogsledding in Norway, Iceland, Alaska, …
72. Travel with a camper (Australia)
73. Float in the Dead Sea (Israel / Jordania)
74. Buy an “Around the world-ticket” to go on holiday
75. Drive through the Uyuni salt flats in Bolivia
76. Go and find the mountain gorillas in Uganda (walking in the footsteps of Dian Fossey)
77. The Serengeti’s Great Migration (Tanzania)
78. Visit Dracula’s castle
79. Visit the Danube Delta
80. Searching for moose in the forests in Sweden
81. See the Halong Bay in Vietnam
82. Do a canopy tour in one of the rainforests of Costa Rica
83. Exploring the Maya route in Mexico, Guatemala and/ or Honduras
84. Swimming in the Blue Lagoon in Reykjavik
85. Visiting Santorini and enjoying the sunset
86. …
So if you have some ideas, let me know!
Greetings.
In the end we only regret the chances we didn’t take – Lewis Carroll
Around the world in a lifetime 