Bucket List

Like any traveller, I have a hunger to see as much of the world as possible, and I love ✔️ off my list. Here are but a few of my ultimate places and explorations I would be thrilled to experience.

“I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.”

Susan Sontag

  • Travel the Silk Road for at least 4 weeks
  • Get PADI certified
  • Hike and sleep on the Great Wall of China, Beijing   October 2019 ✔️
  • Rainbow mountains, Peru
  • Camp in the Rajasthani desert, India
  • Do the Tango in Argentina
  • Visit and climb through the Cango caves, South Africa ✔️
  • Visit the great Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan
  • Cross the Bosphorus bridge between Europe and Asia in Istanbul, Turkey
  • Go up the Eiffel Tower at night, France
  • Drive trough the Black Forest and buy a cuckoo clock
  • Summit Kilimanjaro starting from the west

“We wander for distraction but we travel for fulfilment.” Hillaire Belloc

  • Sunrise over Bagan, Myanmar
  • Be in awe by the Taj Mahal, India✔️
  • Visit Alaska
  • Cycle through Old Delhi And had breakfast at a street cafe ✔️
  • Trans Siberian experience
  • Enjoy fresh oysters at the Oyster Festival in Knysna, South Africa
  • Get skipper licence
  • Sunrise in a hot air balloon  Done in South Africa, just before we got engaged ✔️
  • Do a hiking trail that takes more than 2 days (overnight camp)
  • Learn to surf

“Wander often, wonder always.”

  • Photograph the tile floors of Penang, Malaysia ✔️
  • Visit the Grand Mosque in Abu Dhabi, UAE
  • Visit the Lourve in Abu Dhabi, UAE
  • Enjoy Snoek at Kalkie’s in Kalk Bay, South Africa ✔️
  • Swim in jellyfish lake, Palau
  • See the 12 Apostles, Great Ocean Road, Australia
  • Learn to paddleboard -SUP
  • Do a 4×4 driving course
  • Visit Oman
  • Visit the glow worm cave in New Zealand

“Always there has been an adventure just around the corner–and the world is still full of corners.” Roy Chapman Andrews

  • Caviar & Vodka tasting at Russian Vodka Museum, St Petersburg
  • Okavango Delta in Botswana
  • Oberammergau Passion Play 2020 2022 (only every 10 years) ⇒ tickets bought, postponed till 2022
  • Take a train through Switzerland while enjoying cheese and chocolate
  • Cruise with Belmond Road to Mandalay, Myanmar
  • Keukenhof and other tulip fields in The Netherlands
  • Stay in the Namib desert ✔️
  • See the great Komodo Dragons in Komodo National park and Flores
  • Sail through the Fjords in Norway
  • Experience Oktoberfest in Germany

“Not all those who wander are lost.” J. R. R. Tolkien

  • Drive through some of the highest roads in the world in Jammu and Kashmir during summer
  • Do the Otter Trail on the Garden Route South Africa
  • Try the clay in the Blue Lagoon, Iceland
  • Trek through the Gobi Desert, Mongolia
  • Silly selfie and walk along the Salar de Uyuni salt flats in Bolivia
  • See the rice terrace fields in Sapa, Vietnam✔️
  • Holi festival in India
  • View the Chocolate Hills, The Philippines – ✔️ Bohol 
  • Roadtrip in a camper van across the USA
  • Dive the Great Barrier reef

“We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey.” John Hope Franklin

  • Eat Sushi at a fish market in Japan ✔️
  • Sauna bathing in Finland
  • Ho Chi Minh City and Cu Chi tunnels, Vietnam ✔️
  • Cruise through Halong bay ✔️
  • Visit a vineyard in Bali ✔️
  • Feel small in the Naica Mine, Mexico
  • Visit the Outback in Australia and sleep under the ground (old mine)
  • Follow in the footsteps of Darwin on the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador
  • Sleep in the desert in Morocco
  • Eat Turkish Delight in Turkey

“I love places that make you realize how tiny you and your problems are.”

  • Drive through the Boabab lane in Madagascar
  • Hire a camper van & travel through New Zealand
  • Experience a hot air balloons ride over Cappadoccia, Turkey
  • Have a taste of a Guinness in Dublin, Ireland
  • Visit Yosemite National park, USA
  • Photograph the abandoned DC plane wreck, Iceland
  • Float on the Dead sea
  • See the Namaqua March lilies ✔️
  • Visit the markets in Marrakesh, Morocco
  • Relax in Bora Bora
  • Learn to Ski

“Travel leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” Ibu Battuta

  • Admire the Dolomite mountain range, Italy
  • Be mesmerized by the Angel Falls, Venezuela
  • High tea in London
  • Find shade under a Dragon blood tree on Socotra in Yemen
  • Walk the Inca Trail at Machu Pichu, Peru
  • Serengeti National Park, Tanzania
  • Take a yacht cruise in the Caribbean / Mediterranean
  • Find waterfalls in Bali ✔️
  • Visit Kew Gardens, UK
  • Discover waterfalls in Iceland

“Never trust your fears, they don’t know your strength.” Athena Singh

  • Visit leather tanneries in Fez, Morocco
  • Christmas in Europe to visit the Christmas markets
  • Amazon Rain Forest, Brazil
  • Victoria Falls, travelling on the Rovos Rail
  • Angkor Wat at sunrise, Cambodia ✔️
  • Have lunch under the sea in the Maldives
  • Visit Fiji
  • Le Morne Cultural Landscape, Mauritius
  • See orangutan, Indonesia
  • Visit Piton de la Fournaise, Reunion

“If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.” James Michener

  • Sunrise over Mount Bromo ✔️
  • See the penguins in Antarctica (ultimate bucket list)
  • Drive the Ring road in Iceland
  • Northern lights from a glass igloo in Finland
  • Meet Santa’s reindeer in Lapland
  • Architecture of Iran
  •  Zanzibar, Tanzania
  • Be amazed by Petra, Jordan
  • Discover the ancient world, Egypt
  •  Japan – during Sakura season    Start of the season 2017 ✔️

“Travel is never a matter of money but of courage.” Paulo Coelho

  •  Walk the Philosophers path in Kyoto ✔️
  •  Hiroshima and the A-dome ✔️
  •  Namibia, oldest desert  Our honeymoon in July 2017 ✔️
  •  Cambodia – Angkor Wat Saw 11 various sites and temples in 2017 ✔️
  •  Kenya, Uganda
  •  Israel pilgrimage
  •  Easter Islands, Chile
  •  Sri Lanka – Sigiriya
  •  Champagne tasting in the countryside of France
  •  Enjoy a local coffee in Ethiopia

“I’m no the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” Mary Anne Radmacher

  •  Cruising the canals in South France
  •  Bavaria for Christmas and collecting Glühwein muggs
  •  Japan, north of Tokyo
  •  See the Orangutans from a houseboat in Borneo
  •  Hike Mount Kinabalu
  •  Travel on the circle rail line in Yangon Myanmar
  •  Hike in the Dolomites
  •  Pilgrimage – Santiago de Compostela, Spain
  •  Spend time with nomadic families in their country, learning from them
  •  Learn to ride horses in Mongolia
  • Visit Robben Island again (the last visit I was 12yrs old)
  • Spend a few days relaxing on a white sand beach with aqua water in the Maldives

“Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.” Benjamin Disraeli

 *No particular order and these are only but a few