Lately I have been referring a lot to the whole concept of the ‘bucket list’, and it occurred to me that I had never actually sat down and written down a comprehensive bucket list! Given how much ‘bucket list travel’ I have done this year, it only seemed fitting that I finally bite the bullet and do so!
This is a fairly comprehensive list, but I know there are things I will have forgotten and things I don’t even know that I want to do yet; so as this list changes, grows and as I ‘cross things off’, I will come back here and update it – linking blog posts about the experiences for your reading pleasure – just click on the photos!
So without further ado, here is the ULTIMATE Travelling The World Solo bucket list.
Swim with Humpback Whales
Swim with Orcas in Norway
Throw tomatoes at La Tomatina
Marvel at the rock structures of Lalibela
Go on a luxury safari
Go on a budget safari
Dogsled through Finnish lapland
See the Northern Lights
Visit all seven continents
Eat a meal with a giraffe
Feed a hyena with my mouth in Ethiopia
Do the worlds highest bungee jump
Watch the sun set over Uluru
Go gorilla watching in DR Congo
Visit the Pyramids of Giza
Explore the ocean trenches of Samoa
Take a dip in the Bimmah Sinkhole
Skydive over Dubai
Swim in the worlds largest swimming pool
Take a penguin selfie in Antarctica
See Komodo Dragons (from a safe distance)
Pretend to be Indiana Jones at The Lost City of Petra
Swim with Whale Sharks
Get messy at Holi Festival
Do an Antarctic polar plunge
Swim with Manta Rays
Freedive with sharks in Costa Rica
Float in the Dead Sea
See evolution in the Galapagos
Do a multi day kayaking expedition in Greenland
See a polar bear in Spitsbergen
Take a Quokka selfie on Rottnest Island
Explore the ancient temples of Bagan
Go zorbing in New Zealand
Play a game of Quidditch in England
See Wicked on Broadway
Visit the tribes of PNG
Swim in the Marina Bay Sands infinity pool
Spend a summer on the Amalfi Coast
See the sun rise over Angkor Wat
Embrace my inner nerd at Hobbiton
Eat my way through Vietnam
Go on an Amazing Race style treasure hunt
Go snorkelling at Raj Ampat
Spend a full and consecutive 12 months in the Arctic
Laze away a summer in Portugal
Sleep over the water in the Maldives
Do the Gibbon Experience in Laos
See the snow monkeys in Northern Japan
Trek to Everest Base Camp
Eat my way through Hong Kong
Go yurt hopping in Mongolia
Trek through the mountains of Pakistan
See the Coliseum
Hike the Arctic Circle Trail
Drive the Ring Road in Iceland
Hike to the Tiger’s Nest Monastery in Bhutan
Explore Sri Lanka by train
Go hot air ballooning
Bungee jump out of a hot air balloon
Get into the hustle and bustle of Seoul
Travel on the Trans Siberian Railway
Visit the Gateway to Hell in Turkmenistan
Photograph the Red Square in Moscow by sunrise
Catch bullet trains through Japan
Experience tourism and communism combined in North Korea
Visit the Lofoten Islands
Spend a summer hiking through Norway
Visit Greenland in winter
See Mt. Fuji
Drink, sail and eat my way through the Greek Islands
Explore the pyramids in Sudan
Visit Bunny Island
Hike the Jatbula Trail
Experience the wildlife in Madagascar
Step foot inside Istanbul’s Blue Mosque
See the sun set from Cable Beach
Feel the rhythm in Cape Verde
Backpack through Iran
Soak in a Japanese onsen
Go island hopping in the Philippines
Come face to face with a leopard seal
Visit Iguazu Falls
Go for a splash in the Devils Pool
Experience the crazy nightlife of Tokyo
Learn to scuba dive
Increase my blood alcohol content in Mendoza
Sleep in an Ice Hotel
Swim with basking sharks in Scotland
Explore the Amazon
Trek the W in Chilean Patagonia
Visit Fingals Cave
Work with MSF
Spend a month in Colombia
Explore the colour of Cape Town
Visit Machu Picchu
Spend 12 months backpacking through Central America
Visit Kruger National Park
Actually go inside a volcano
Move my home base to Edinburgh
Visit Edinburgh during the Fringe Festival
Experience Hogmanay in Edinburgh
Go to Iceland Airwaves
Visit the Isle of Skye
Travel through the Namib Desert
Get spooky on Easter Island
Go on a Man VS Food style trip through the Southern US states
Get fat(ter) in Italy
Do the whole Bolivian salt flats thing
Visit Harry Potter Studios in London
Visit the Wizarding World of Harry Potter in Orlando
Hike Table Mountain
Go hiking through Utah
Cage dive with Great White Sharks
Visit Robben Island
Sleep in an igloo
Explore Banff in Alberta
Spend an autumn in the Pacific Northwest
Explore the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone
Experience the colours of Cuba
Walk through the Arashiyama Bamboo Forest
Go to a Disneyworld
Experience the magic of the Pink Mosque in Shiraz
Fly in a private jet (a gal can dream)
Plunge into the Blue Lagoon
Learn another language (preferably Swedish)
See icebergs up close
Camp on a glacier
Go to a full moon party
Experience the polar night
Experience the midnight sun
Party properly in Budapest
Go ice climbing
See a glacial moulin up close
Swim between two continental plates