Welcome to my travel bucket list Top 100. The ever-changing masterpiece filled with my greatest wanderlusts alongside ways to terrify myself…
I have taken inspiration from all the lengthy conversations about dreams and ambitions with people I’ve met on the road. Combined their ideas and suggestions with mine and here it is, my bucket list:
- Abseil down a waterfall
- Airboat over the Everglades
- Backflip on skis or into water
- Bathe in the Dead Sea
- Buy a one-way plane ticket ✅
London-Bangkok - Buy a same-day plane ticket
- Canyoneering/Cliff Jumping ✅
Canyoneering in Moalboal, Philippines + Cliff jumping in El Caminito del Rey, Spain - Celebrate New Year’s Eve Twice
- Climb an active volcano ✅
Acatenango, Guatemala - Climb Kilimanjaro
- Completely disconnect for a month ✅
6 weeks without Wi-Fi/signal in Madagascar - Create a movie that I’m proud to present
- Cruise through Ha Long Bay ✅
- Dive the Blue Hole
- Dive/Snorkel the Great Barrier Reef
- Dive/Snorkel with sharks ✅
Caye Caulker, Belize - Drive Route 66 ✅
Not the whole stretch, but visited in March 2024 - Design a successful website ✅
In progress - Eat at a Michelin-star restaurant ✅
The Savile, London - Eat some crazy traditional foods ✅
Ongoing challenge but so far: chicken intestine, stingray, scorpion, crickets - Enjoy steak and wine in Argentina
- Experience weightlessness
- Explore a rainforest ✅
Khao Sok, Thailand – the oldest evergreen rainforest in the world - Explore Yosemite National Park
- Feel an earthquake ✅
6.1 on the Thailand/Laos border - Fill up all passport pages with stamps
- Fly and land by waterplane
- Gamble in a Las Vegas Casino ✅
I didn’t win (and I got ID’d!) - Get a tattoo ✅
May 2023 - Get involved in an overseas conservation project ✅
Operation Wallacea, Madagascar - Go to the Olympics abroad
- Go to the World Cup abroad
- Go to Wimbledon ✅
Wimbledon 2015 - Go to the French Open
- Go to La Tomatina, Spain
- Go to Holi Festival, India
- Go to Loy Krathong Festival ✅
Chaing Mai in 2019
- Hang glide in the mountains
- Helicopter ride over somewhere awesome
- Hike to Everest base camp
- Hike in Patagonia
- Hike in the Dolomites
- Hike to Christ the Redeemer
- Hitchhike + Pick up a hitchhiker
Hitchhiked in Nicaragua, but still yet to pick one up! - Hot air balloon ride
- Jump into ice-cold water
- Learn another language ✅
Estoy aprendiendo español - Live out of a converted van/campervan
- Learn to surf ✅
San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua - Meet Matt Damon
- Paraglide somewhere awesome ✅
Lake Atitlan, Guatemala - Party at Carnival in Brazil
- Pilot a plane/glider
- Ride a bobsleigh
- Ride a jetski/Skidoo ✅
Both - Ride a horse in Mongolia
- Ride by Dogsled ✅
My first-ever trip abroad to Lapland (yes I met Santa)! - Ride the Transiberian/Transmongolian rail
- Run the London Marathon
- Safari in Africa
- Sail a boat ✅
Portsmouth, UK - Sand dune surfing
- See an eclipse (solar or lunar) ✅
Just the lunar so far in Nottingham, UK - See a tornado ✅
Whilst on a boat in Malta - See balloons over Bagan ✅
It was so good I got up for sunrise three days in a row!
- See geysers in Iceland ✅
- See Komodo dragons in the wild
- See the Northern Lights ✅
Myvatn, Iceland - See wild orangutans
- Skydive
- Snorkel with turtles ✅
Moalboal, Philippines - Stand on the equator
- Stuff my face in an all-you-can-eat challenge ✅
Ate almost 70 chicken wings and then fell asleep - Sunrise at Angkor Wat ✅
2020
- Surprise someone by coming home unexpectedly
- Swim with manta rays
- Swim with whale sharks ✅
In the Philippines – absolutely stunning creatures - Swim with wild dolphins
- Visit all 7 continents
Progress: 5/7 - Visit Angel Falls, Venezuela
- Visit Antarctica
- Visit Easter Island
- Visit Hawaii
- Visit Machu Pichu, Peru
- Visit Madagascar ✅
2017 - Visit North Korea
- Visit Rainbow Mountain, Peru
- Visit the Eiffel Tower ✅
As a child so would love to return - Visit the Grand Canyon ✅
March 2024 - Visit the Great Wall of China
- Visit the Pyramids of Egypt
- Visit Red Square, Russia
- Visit Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia
- Visit the Amazon
- Visit the Galapagos
- Visit Trolltunga, Norway
- Visit Zhangjiajie National Forest Park, China
- Whale watching ✅
In Husavik, Iceland - Wild camp ✅
Kayaked to a deserted island in the middle of Loch Lomond, Scotland - Write a book
Personally, travel is all about experiencing new things. So having a bucket list of everything I’d like to do really is helpful. The only issue is that the list never gets any smaller!
You can see my seemingly ever-expanding, full-size bucket list in a future blog post of mine.