100 Things to Experience Before You Die

Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia

Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia, a largest salt prosaic in a world. Photo by Luca Galuzzi

From upon vacation remote islands to eating live cobra to starting your own NGO, heres a bucket list to finish all bucket lists.

Putting together a bucket list of 100 things to knowledge before we die is tough there have been just so many cold things out there to see as well as do as well as experience. So yes, we did miss things out. But this list ranges from a viewable to a obscure, as well as a high to a ridiculous. And they all gotta be done!

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Dragon Blood tree, Socotra. Photo: Wikimedia Commons

1.Visit Socotra island off a seashore of Yemen, that is an general biosphere reserve, as well as has been called a Galapagos of a Indian Ocean. Home to dragon blood, frankincense as well as myrrh, as well as both Thomas a Apostle as well as Sinbad a Sailor have been said to have visited.

2.Try WWOOF-ing in Australia. This isnt about communing with dogs, though trading your work for house as well as camp as a Willing Worker On an Organic Farm.

3.Go to Iceland: glaciers, volcanoes, whale examination as well as a Northern Lights. Nuff said.

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The enchanting landscape of Iceland. Photo: Paul Sullivan

4.Visit Syria as well as transport into a desert to knowledge Palmyra, a single of a lesser known ruins of a world.

5.See a worlds little nations as well as micro-nations. Once youve got a biggies underneath your belt, its time to check a dots upon a map. Some have been legit countries, a little less so that makes them all a some-more compelling.

6.Drive a Karakoram Highway in Paki! stan, a single of a top roads in a world, or hit an additional of a fantastic roads in a world.

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Stelvio Pass in Italy. Photo: Damian Morys Foto

7. Go skinny dipping during slightest once in your life. Whether its alone in a hotel pool during night, with a garland of friends off a Greek beach, in hot springs or a cold lake, that liberating feeling of vouchsafing it all hang giveaway is incredible. But remember, guys, cold H2O wont do we any favors!

8. Get your hips moving during Rio Carnaval, or swing over to an pick carnaval end in a region. By distant as well as away a wildest, not to mention trippiest, looks like Boi Bumba in a Amazon.

9. Travel to outer space, a idealisation item upon each travelers bucket list. And heres a thing: a handful of space tourists have already been, though we need around $20 million + to do so. Heres hoping prices come down a little soon, as well as someone works out a good carbon offset scheme.

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We heart penguins. Photo: WisconsinKow

10. Go penguin examination in Chile, or during other prime spots in a Southern Hemisphere.

11. Lose yourself in Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia, a worlds largest salt flat. Alternatively, scope out a little of a other many visitor landscapes upon Earth.

12. Head to Angel Falls in Venezuela, a top rapids in a world. Then, ignoring a advice of TLC, do go chasing waterfalls a some-more fantastic a better. (And dont even try to fake we dont know that song Im talking about!)

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Vic Falls from above. Photo: Jean-Louis Vandevivere

13. Trek a Inca Trail to Machu Picchu. It might be a bucket list cliche though is c! ertainly no travel in a park, as well as must rate as a single of a many iconic walks in a world.

14. Crash a night in a Jumbo Jet Hostel in Sweden, or stay a while in an additional of a worlds many whacked out hotels such as a single all built from ice, or a single that is entirely underwater. we once stayed in Luke Skywalkers house in Matmata, Tunisia, that was flattering cool.

15. Explore a overwhelming landscapes as well as Buddhist monasteries of Ladakh.

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Surfin. Photo: Mikebaird

16. Learn to surf in Byron Bay as well as then, assuming we conduct to leave, surf a single of a most appropriate spots in a world. Putting upon rubber masks of dead American presidents as well as robbing banks is optional.

17. Swim with dolphins as well as humpback whales off a seashore of Madagascar whilst helping sea scientists with data collection. Ive swum with dolphins in Marsa Alam as well as believe me, those witty beasties rock.

18. Track down a little Coast Redwoods in California, a tallest trees in a world. Over 100 metres tall, with trunks up to 8 metres in diameter, a little of these bad boys have been around since before a time of Jesus. Check out a little photos of giant redwoods.

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Logan Pass upon Bike for MS route. Photo: Donal Fraser

19. Bike a US for MS, from Yorktown to San Francisco, as well as assistance lift funds for Multiple Sclerosis research. If we really have time upon your hands, take to a roads as well as cycle an additional of a long stretch bike routes in a USA.

20. Get a pursuit during a investigate hire in Antarctica. It might be a coldest place upon Earth, though during slightest there arent any polar bears.


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