My travel bucket list

posted in: Tips & Tricks, Travels | 4

(Latest update: 3/9/2023)

My travel bucket list is basically infinite. A long list of dreams that keeps on growing. For every destination I reach, a bunch of new ideas are added! Right now, my list is a dozen pages long Google Doc with cities, routes, accommodations, links, natural attractions, museums and even entire countries, when I don’t have specific details.

Usually, all these ideas are just suggestions and reminders to check when I plan a trip. A sort of digital collection of Post-Its to help my lame memory out. My travel dreams are a bit less. They are those trips that I would really like to do, once in a lifetime. Some I’ve already realized. Others are patiently waiting their turn. One day, I always repeat. One day.

Cover of My Travel Bucket List: The Lady posing in on of her favourite location of every trip: "the highest point".
The Lady and her camera in a rare posed picture

I’m going to tell you some of these travel dreams, grouped by continent but otherwise listed in an absolute random order.

Africa

America

  • Take pictures with funny prospective tricks in the Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia
  • Visit the Maya ruins in the Yucatan peninsula
  • Breath the fresh air of the Amazon Rainforest
  • Swim in a Mexican cenote
  • Reach Machu Picchu from the Camino del Inca
  • Take incredible pictures at the Antelope Canyon in Arizona
  • Dress up like a cow-boy and walk in the Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park in Wyoming. Or maybe ride a horse.
  • Hiking and wait either for sunset or sunrise in the rocky National Parks in Utah
  • Relax watching the mountains landscape in Montana
  • Meet bears in the Canadian parks
  • Row on a river that crosses the Costa Rica jungle
  • Suffer jet lag in Alaska while being amazed by its icy landscape
  • See the giant heads on Easter Island

Asia

  • Stare in awe of giant pandas eating bamboo in their natural environment
  • Explore Nepal and Tibet on foot
  • Snorkel in the Takapoto Atoll and dive around Polynesia
  • See the fairy chimneys in Cappadocia
  • Visit the temples in Cambodia
  • Avoid death in Hanoi Train Street in Vietnam
  • Camp on the edge of the Gate of Hell in Turkmenistan
  • Climb Mount Fuji
  • Spend a day in one of those fancy hotel rooms on the sea with a private underwater pool and/or jacuzzi next to the white sand beach full of palm trees
  • Go visit my “sponsored child” in the Philippines
  • Swim in the Dead Sea
  • Visit the Tsaatan e Kazaki tribes in Mongolia
  • Walk Jesus’s steps in Israel and Jordan
  • Visit the Lut Desert and the Stars Valley in Iran
  • Find the exact spot where Indiana Jones enters the Siq in Petra

Antarctica & North Pole

  • See penguins, seals and polar bears (from far away) on the ice
  • Cruise between icebergs
  • Explore the ice of Greenland

Europa

Oceania

  • Tour the “natural set” used in The Lord of The Rings trilogy
  • Spend a night underground in Coober Pedy, Australia
  • Watch a MotoGP race at the Philip Island circuit
  • Hugs koalas on Raymond Island, Australia
  • Swim in the water of To Sua Ocean Trench, Samoan Islands
  • Penguins and seals like if there’s no tomorrow on Macquarie Island, between Tasmania and Antarctica
  • Avoid kangaroos’ kicks on Kangaroo Island, Australia

What about you? Tell me some of your travel bucket list destinations, you could give me some good ideas to add to my never ending list!!



4 Responses

  1. Loise

    Unique bucket list! As for me, I would like to visit some tourist spots here in my country, Philippines. Because I know that our tourism were very much affected by the pandemic so I’m gonna be a little help for their income by being a tourist on my own land.

    • The Lady

      You’re so right!!! I think I’ll do the same, especially at the beginning when international travelling might still be complicated. I can’t wait to get out and explore more again!!

  2. Sandra Ans

    You have soooo cool bucket list! It’s not like the list ”visit Italy, visit Spanien etc”. You have really amazing ideas and that’s great! One of my biggest dreams is also visiting Machu Picchu! I hope, one day we both will manage it! 🙂

    • The Lady

      A bucket list needs to be exciting, right? 😀 Macchu Picchu in been a dream for such a long time now…. One of my first travel destination dream ever! I’ll get there, one day. I will!!! And you should too!! 😉

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