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 LofotenVisit 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!
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