Bucket List

My Travel Bucket List

This is my travel bucket list. I captured travel destinations, cultural attractions, activities or special occasions I would like to see and experience around the world.

Let’s see how it works out with making this list a reality step by step. So happy that I can cross the visit to Rio and the Copacabana already off the list (and add another wish to see it again. Damn ;-). But that’s travel life I guess. I hope you find a place or two you have not thought about before and add it to your list. Or start you own bucket list if you don’t have one yet…

But without further ado here is my travel bucket list:

1. Visit at least 3 countries in South America (e.g. Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Brasil, Bolivia, Argentina, Uruguay) (1st Brasil)
2. Definitely see Machu Picchu for myself
3. Being able to have an everyday conversation in Spanish
4. Spend at least 6 months in a row traveling
5. Watch a tennis match live at the Australian Open
6. Work for a social cause
7. Work outside of Europe
8. Go sailing in the Maledives
9. Make a biking tour along a river
10. Visit more of Central America (e.g. Guatemala, Nicaragua, Costa Rica or Panama)
11. Make another hiking tour in New Zealand (any recommendations?)
12. Drive along the sea in a convertible
13. Visit Perth and Western Australia
14. Make a “Lord of the Rings” tour in New Zealand
15. Visit more regions in Mexico (Oaxaca, Mexico City, Chiapas, Guadalajara, etc.)
16. Revisit Ottawa 
17. Revisit the Canadian Rockies
18. Make a roadtrip in Ireland
19. Visit Edinburgh, Scotland
20. Go to South Africa (Garden Route, Krüger NP)
21. Experience family life in an Arabic country
22. Go to the Seychelles
23. Go to Africa (e.g. Uganda, Namibia, Ruanda, Burundi, Kenia, Tansania, Sansibar, Benin)
24. Go on safari and see the big 5
25. Spend a week at a lake in Scandinavia
26. Visit Iran
27. Write a book
28. Do island hopping in the Caribbean
29. Swim with dolphins
30. Visit the South Seas
31. Go whale watching again (and this time hopefully see whales!)
32. Visit South India
33. Revisit Hyderabad
34. Attend an Indian wedding
35. Be in India for Diwali
36. See Tokio and Japan at least once
37. Visit Cuba
38. Visit Costa Rica
39. Learn Spanish in a Spanish speaking country
40. Visit again and again: New York, Paris, Rio, San Francisco and Sydney
41. See Hawaii Magnum style ;)
42. Visit the Everglades and the Florida Keys
43. See Rio de Janeiro & the Copacabana
44. Visit a tea plantation in Sri Lanka
45. Make a roadtrip to the south-west US national parks (Arches, Zion, Bryce, Monument Valley)
46. Go sailing in Greece or Croatia
47. Visit Petra in Jordania
48. Visit Kep & Koh Rong, Cambodia (and Angkor Wat of course)
49. Visit Riga, Tallinn & Vilnius
50. Visit Myanmar
51. Visit the Woodstock festival, Poland
52. Visit Palau
53. Hike a pilgrim’s route to Santiago de Compostela
54. Go to the Gili Islands, Lombok and see more of Indonesia
55. Spend some time on the Fijis
56. Visit Antarctica
57. Go to Quito and Cotopaxi NP in Ecuador
58. Visit Kotor in Montenegro
59. Visit Uruguay with Montevideo
60. Visit the Philippines
61. Visit the Douro Valley in Portugal
62. Walk along the Chinese Wall
63. Visit Beijing and/or Shanghai
64. Visit Naples and Pompeji, Italy
65. Make a trip in the south of Italy or to Sardinia
66. Visit Laos
67. Go hiking in Nepal
68. Visit Kyoto, Japan
69. Go hiking in Tadjikistan, Uzbekistan or Kyrgyzstan
70. Go to a full-moon party
71. Visit the Iguazu Falls in Brazil/Argentina
72. Spend some time in the Amazon region
73. Visit the Galapagos Islands and/or the Easter Island
74. Hike Mt. Kilimanjaro, Tansania
75. Play tennis on the world’s highest tennis court
76. Raft through the Grand Canyon
77. Canoe through the Spreewald (a forest) in Germany
78. Visit Weimar, Germany
79. Make another cruise in the Mediterranean Sea
80. Visit St. Petersburg, Russia and Helsinki, Finland
81. Stay in an over-water bungalow
82. Ride in the Trans-Siberian railway
83. See the pyramids, Egypt
84. Visit Dubrovnik, Croatia
85. Have a look around Silicon Valley
86. Visit the Elbe Sandstone Mountains and the Saxon Switzerland National Park
87. Ride in a gondola in Venice
88. Go ice skating in New York
89. Make a trip to the desert and sleep in a tent
90. Go to the Olympics or a European or World Cup (soccer)
91. Visit the Anne Frank house in Amsterdam, the Netherlands
92. Visit the Danube delta, Transylvania castles and Bucharest, Romania
93. Go to Budapest, Hungary
94. Visit Iceland

What do you think of my travel bucket list? Which place is missing that is a must-see or a must-do activity? What have you seen that I should add?