Bucket List

  1. Travel to 50 UNESCO World Heritage Sites (58 and counting)
  2. Travel to minimum 30 countries (39 and counting)
  3. Visit all New 7 Wonders of the World (2 down, 5 more to go)
  4. Travel to all 6 continents (not including Antartica)
  5. Write a travel article and get it published
  6. Attend a travel writing course
  7. Japan, especially Kyoto (Completed)
  8. Bathe in an onsen in Japan (Completed)
  9. Sydney & Melbourne (Completed)
  10. Bushwalking in Australia (Completed)
  11. Visit Tutankhamun's tomb in the Valley of the Kings in Luxor, Egypt (Completed)
  12. Attend the Great Festival of the Sun in Abu Simbel, Egypt (Completed)
  13. Bathe in a hammam in the Middle East (Completed in Damascus, Syria)
  14. Swim in the Dead Sea (Completed)
  15. Israel
  16. Ethiopia
  17. Watch the Great Migration in the Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya
  18. Go down 198m into the bowels of the earth to see the Wieliczka Salt Mine in Poland (Completed)
  19. Visit Auschwitz-Birkenau, former German Nazi concentration and extermination camp (Completed)
  20. Croatia - Bosnia & Herzegovina - Montenegro (Completed)
  21. Prague (Czech Republic) - Cesky Krumlov (Czech Republic) - Vienna (Austria) - Bratislava (Slovakia) - Budapest (Hungary) - Ljubljana (Slovenia) (Completed)
  22. Helsinki (Finland) - Tallinn (Estonia) - Riga (Latvia) - Vilnius (Lithuania) - Warsaw (Poland) - Krakow (Poland) - St Petersburg (Russia) (Completed)
  23. Barcelona - Madrid - Malaga - Granada - Gibraltar - Tangier (Morocco) - Seville - Cordoba - Lisbon - Porto
  24. Eat tapas in Spain (Completed)
  25. Drink sangria in Spain (Completed)
  26. See the Pope live in Vatican City
  27. Visit the 4 Basilicas in Vatican City
  28. Cinque Terre, Italy
  29. Ride in a gondola in Venice
  30. Watch a Riverdance show in Ireland
  31. Island hopping in Greece
  32. Travel the Silk Road
  33. Bhutan (Decided to ditch this because it's too costly and the landscape is similar to Nepal which I've visited a couple of times)
  34. Mongolia
  35. Trek to Annapurna Base Camp in Nepal (Completed)
  36. Trek to Everest Base Camp (Decided to ditch this after a failed first attempt)
  37. Climb Mount Kinabalu (Completed)
  38. Deer Cave in Miri, Sarawak (Completed)
  39. Animal watching in Sukau, Sabah (a friend went there and saw only elephants and crocodiles, both of which I've already seen in the wild when I was in Nepal)
  40. Watch a ping pong show in Thailand (Completed in Phuket)
  41. Attend a Broadway musical in London (Completed - Les Miserables)
  42. Visit a haunted castle in Europe (Chickened out)
  43. Swim with the whale sharks of Donsol in the Philippines
  44. Spend a night in a Catholic monastery
  45. Witness an aurora borealis or aurora australis
  46. Kiev (Ukraine) - Odessa (Ukraine) - Chisinau (Moldova) - Bucharest (Romania) - Sofia (Bulgaria) - Skopje (Macedonia) - Tirana (Albania) - Corfu (Greece)
  47. Amsterdam (The Netherlands) - Cologne (Germany) - Luxembourg - Brussels (Belgium)
  48. Venice / Padua - Milan - Cinque Terre - Bologna - San Marino (country) - Florence - Assisi - Rome - Naples
  49. St Paul's Second Missionary Journey
  50. Malta - Sicily - Tunis (Completed)
  51. Tbilisi (Georgia) - Yerevan (Armenia) - Baku (Azerbaijan)
  52. Almaty (Kazakhstan) - Dushanbe (Tajikistan) - Tashkent (Uzbekistan) - Samarkand (Uzbekistan) - Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan)
  53. Copenhagen (Denmark) - Gothenburg (Sweden) - Stockholm (Sweden)
Updated 10 February 2024

This bucket list was first conceived on 12 August 2011. Since then it has and will continue to undergo many revisions to accommodate my growing and varied interests in the remarkable inhabitants and things that make up planet earth.

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

Wow... your list is almost the same as my list, except mine consist of 50 items! I would highly recommend the book "1,000 Best Experiences" if you don't already have it.

Julie Lim said...

Hi Juphelia,

Please share your bucket list on your blog. I would love to see where you wanna go and what you wanna do :-) I've also seen the book you recommended in stores before, but didn't buy it due to some reason. Maybe I should look out for it again.

khengsiong said...

#12 not done yet. hehe... we tend to visit other countries more than our own.

Julie Lim said...

Hi Kheng Siong,

Yes we do tend to visit other countries more. And that's precisely the reason for allocating a few spots for Malaysian destinations.

gbeejipp said...

There are all possible. #29 definitely stands brighter in my eyes. :-)

Julie Lim said...

Jipp,

The Kingdom of Bhutan is a mini Shangri-La (not the hotel) that limits its number of visitors. So it would be an achievement for me if I can visit the country. Moreover the kingdom is ruled by a Dragon King, how cool is that !!!

art said...

Julie Pooh
Your bucket list is missing USA!
Perhaps the "Magnet Fairy" could arrange that this year.
My bucket list has an addition I just scratched off: "survive a plane crash"..lol
Sent you an e-mail with pictures.
Was funny for a few days after until I went to Church and had some serious reflection and I fell apart!

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