My travel bucket list

Traveling is something which I really love, something that inspires me, educates me and gets me going. I love both going new places, and returning to old favourites.

Every now and then I find myself almost overwhelmed with the amount of things I want to do. To help myself categorize these, I’ve decided to make a travel bucket list. This way I can both keep track, check something off the list one done, and of course, always add new things.

Here’s my travel bucket list:

In numbers

• Visit all 7 continents of the world (5/7 visited, remaining: North America and Antarctica)
• Visit all 18 counties of Norway (17/18 visited, remaining: Finnmark)
• Visit all 50 countries in Europe (19/50 visited)
• Visit all states in USA (0/50 visited)
• Visit all -stan countries (0/7 visited)

Activities

• Bath in Pamukkale, Turkey
• Bath in the Dead Sea, Jordan/Israel
• Birthday in another country (Australia 2016)
• Celebrate the National day of another country in that country (Australia 2014/2016)
• Digital nomad in Bali
• Diving
• Dog sled ride
• Drive a colourful car in Havana, Cuba
• Fly in a hot air balloon
• Bungee jump
• Christmas in another country (Australia 2015)
• Get a tattoo (2 x Australia 2016)
• Interrail in Europe
• Kayaking
• Live abroad (1 year, Australia 2015-2016)
• Music festival – 8 days and nights in a tent (Roskilde festival, Denmark x 9)
• New Years Eve in another country (Australia 2015)
• Rafting
• Road trip in the US
• Sailing
• Snorkeling
• Skydive
• Surfing
• SUP in French Polynesia

Events

• Burning Man, Nevada, USA
• Day of the Day, Mexico
• Holi festival, India
• Oktoberfest, Germany
• Songkran, Thailand
• Yi Peng (Loy Krathong) lantern festival, Thailand

Food & drink

• Eat tapas in Spain
• Eat steak in Argentina
• Eat paella in Spain
• Eat sushi in Japan
• Ead pad thai in Thailand
• Eat kangaroo in Australia
• Eat Indian cuisine in India
• Eat pasta and pizza in Italy

• High noon tea in England
• Visit a winery in Italy
• Take a local cooking class
• Tea ceremony in Japan
• Eat at a Michelin restaurant

Hiking:

• Between the 5 villages in Cinque Terre
• Everest Base Camp, Nepal
• Himalaya (Pakistan, India, Nepal, Kina, Bhutan)
• Hike between two countries
• Lhasa, Tibet
• Machu Picchu, Peru
• Patagonia (Chile/Argentina)
• Tiger Leaping Gorge, Yunnan, China
• Vesuvius, Italy

History

• Acropolis, Athens
• Angkor Wat temples, Cambodia
• Auschwitz, Poland (2003)
• Bagan temples, Myanmar
• Berlin Wall, Germany (2003)
• Catacombs of Paris, France
• Chernobyl, Ukraine
• Easter Island, Chile
• Forbidden City, Beijing, China
• Fushimi Inari-taisha, Japan
• The Great Wall of China
• Hang Son Doong, worlds biggest cave, Vietnam
• Hiroshima, Japan
• Killing Fields, Cambodia
• Machu Picchu, Peru
• Meteora, Greece
• Petra, Jordan
• Plitvice Lakes National Park, Croatia
• Pompeii, Italy
• Pyramids in Egypt
• Red Square, Moscow
• Sphinx, Egypt
• Stari Most, Mostar, Bosnia Herzegovina (2016)
• Stonehenge, UK
• The Tianzi Mountains, Hunan, China

Nature

• Antelope Canyon, USA
• Amazonas
• Arashiyama, Bamboo forest, Kyoto, Japan
• Atacama Desert, Chile (2019)
• Black Forest, Germany
• Blue Lagoon, Iceland
• Cappadocia, Turkey
• Cherry blossoms in Japan
• Cliffs of Mohey, Ireland
• Door to Hell, Turkmenistan
• Fraser Island, Australia
• Galapagos Island
• Ganges River, India
• Ha Long Bay, Vietnam
• Iguazu Falls, Argentina/Brazil/Paraguay
• Giant’s Causeway, Ireland
• Gobi desert
• Grand Canyon, USA
• Great Barrier Reef, Australia
• Great Blue Hole, Beliza
• Great Geysir, Iceland
• Huacachina, Peru
• Komodo Island
• Mount Fuji, Japan
• Namib desert, Namibia
• Nessie-hunt, Loch Ness, Scotland
• Niagara Falls
• Sahara desert, Morocco (2018)
• Safari in Africa
• Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia
• Palawan, Philippines
• Patagonia
• Quito, “The Middle of the World”, Ecuador
• Rainbow Mountain, Peru
• Uluru, Ayers Rock, Australia
• Venice
• Victoria Falls, Zambia
• Wadi Rum desert, Jordan
• Whale watching (Azores, Sri Lanka)
• Whitsunday Island, Australia
• Wieliczka salt mine, Krakow (2003)
• 12 Apostles

Norway

• Visit all 18 counties of Norway
• See the midnight sun (Lofoten)
• See the northern light (Aurora Borealis)
• Visit Lofoten
• Visit Galdhøpiggen
• Visit Kjeragbolten
• Visit Preikestolen
• Visit Trolltunga
• Visit Nordkapp
• Visit Lindesnes
• Visit Svalbard
• Drive on the Atlantic Road

Seven Wonders of the World

• Christ Redeemer, Rio
• Chichen Itza, Mexico
• Colosseum, Rome
• The Great Wall of China
• Machu Picchu, Peru
• Petra, Jordan
• Taj Mahal, India
  
  

Sleeping

• Sleep in a desert (Sahara desert 2018)
• Sleep in a tree top house
• Sleep in a hammock
• Sleep in a capsule hotel
• Sleep in a lighthouse
• Sleep in a glass igloo
• Sleep in a jurt
• Sleep in a teepee
• Sleep at the beach
• Sleep in a castle
• Sleep in a beach cabana, Maldives
• Sleep in a overwater bungalow, Bora Bora

Do you have a travel bucket list? If so, what’s on it?

All pictures in this post by Thomas Marthinsen. Thank you so much!