Here you can find my most up to date travel plans – so if you have any tips for any of these places, please share! And do let me know if our travel plans overlap… 🙂
And this is how I would like my world map (see Visited Places) to look like at one point…
Of course I wouldn’t mind seeing even more – but you gotta set priorities! 😉 So here is my complete bucket list (as of 2019), alphabetically:
- Bahamas – diving with hammerheads!
- Bhutan – such an interesting small country where the wealth is measured in happiness rather than GDP. Only the cost to visit seems a bit outrageous.
- Canada – spot a grizzly, visit Vancouver and the national parks Banff and Jasper
- China – not really that high on my list, but I guess you gotta see the Great Wall and Beijing at one point, right!?
- Cook Islands – especially the lagoon of Aitutaki! I need to see these turquoise colours!!
- Costa Rica – Above water, I’m more interested in the neighbouring countries, but at one point I will have to treat myself to the ultimate dive experience at Cocos Island!
- Ecuador – respectively Galapagos! Yes, I did visit in 2012, however my budget did not allow for a pricey liveaboard dive trip back then. So I will need to return at one point!
- Egypt – once it’s safer again, I would like to backpack around the whole country and visit all the great archaeological sites
- Ghana – the little african country only caught my attention recently
- Iceland – I want to see all those beautiful landscapes with my own eyes, and of course dive between the tectonic plates in Thingvellir national park!
- India – I have a lot of Must Sees there left, especially in Rajasthan. In 2017 we already explored the Golden Triangle and Kerala and in 2022 I visited Varanasi and Amritsar.
- Indonesia – I have already been 3 times to this country: 2010 Java and Bali, 2013 first Sulawesi and later on Bali/Lombok/Komodo/Flores. However – still haven’t made it to West Papua and Raja Ampat (for diving), so this is „pending“ 😉
- Iran – everyone who has been, raves about it. Surely there has to be a reason for that!?
- Madagascar – the name alone speaks to the adventurer inside me!
- Mexico – I have been here twice already: 2012 I started my world trip in Cancun and then returned for holidays in 2014. Buuut: So far I have only seen the South, so the North is still to be explored! I also would love to dive the Socorro Islands at one point.
- Mongolia – on horseback through the Mongolian steppe…sleep in a yurt…experience the infinite expanses…
- Nepal – I loved visiting Nepal in 2013 – so much in fact that I would like to return! Preferably to hike the Everest Base Camp trek.
- Nicaragua – Unfortunately I didn’t make it there anymore in 2012, still regretting that.
- Oman – seems like a great roadtrip and camping country to me!
- Palau – of course this is a world class dive destination!
- Panama – same as Nicaragua, didn’t make it anymore in 2012. Hopefully at one point in my life, I will 🙂
- Syria – I almost had my flight tickets booked in 2011 – and then postponed it. You cannot imagine how much I’m regretting this decision now! Back then, the country was peaceful and it was safe to travel even for women on their own. Even if this should be the case again at one point, a lot is destroyed now and for sure it will have changed the people…. 😦 Definitely the saddest point on my bucket list.
- Tanzania – island life on Zanzibar and safari at the Ngorongoro crater
- Uganda – I have heard many good things about this small African nation. Of course, seeing the mountain gorillas would be very special, but I’m not sure I would want to pay that much money.
- Venezuela – after Syria probably the most questionable one on my list. This country is not doing well at all at the moment, and I probably should have gone earlier when it was safe and easy to travel… The Angel Falls are definitely high up on my list!
- …and more
If a country is not on my list, it doesn’t mean I’m not interested in going but rather that I haven’t thought so much about it – and probably don’t want to 😉 Because the list is long enough as it stands right now! First, I need to „tick off“ some countries, before adding more… 🙂
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