Bucket List

đŸș Culture

  1. Participate in a salt harvest in Bolivia
  2. Watch local daily life unfold at a floating market
  3. Learn the art of T’ai chi at dawn in China
  4. Witness a bull-jumping ritual
  5. Experience an ancient Polynesian fire dance
  6. Celebrate Midsummer with bonfires
  7. Join a Dayak longhouse celebration in Borneo
  8. Wear a costume in public outside of Halloween
  9. See a Broadway show in New York
  10. See traditional bamboo weaving in a rural village in East Timor (Timor-Leste)
  11. Participate in a rice harvest festival
  12. Dance salsa in Havana’s open-air club
  13. Experience a village wine festival in Cyprus
  14. Celebrate Spicemas Carnival with soca and calypso rhythms — Grenada
  15. Explore Mayan ruins and taste atol de elote — Guatemala
  16. Hear traditional griot storytelling with kora music — Guinea
  17. Witness a colourful carnival with masks and costumes — Guinea-Bissau
  18. Explore Amerindian culture and taste pepperpot stew — Guyana
  19. Celebrate Feria Juniana with music, parades, and food — Honduras
  20. Participate in a Kurdish dabke dance – Iraq.
  21. Witness a Bon shaman ritual – Tibet, China.
  22. Watch a Bhutanese masked dance.
  23. Join a Hindu fire ceremony (havan) in India.
  24. Attend a Mayan fire ceremony in Mexico.
  25. Learn to play djembe – Mali.
  26. Watch a Bolivian cholita wrestling match.
  27. Watch a Bhutanese masked dance
  29. Join a lantern-making workshop
  30. Experience a Mongolian ger wedding ceremony.
  31. Participate in a Kurdish dabke dance in Iraq
  32. Learn to play the djembe in Mali
  33. Watch a Bolivian cholita wrestling match in Bolivia
  34. Learn to make Lithuanian rye bread in Lithuania
  35. Collect 10 handwritten beloved recipes
  36. Learn to cook adobo
  37. Go to a drag brunch
  38. Join a cultural festival parade
  39. Attend a traditional court ceremony (e.g., Japanese Imperial events or Bhutanese rituals)
  40. Participate in a local oral history recording project, preserving indigenous stories
  41. Join a night archaeological dig, helping researchers uncover the past
  42. See ancient petroglyphs or cave paintings in remote landscapes (e.g., Tassili n’Ajjer, Algeria)
  43. Take a living-history camp experience, learning medieval, Viking, or indigenous survival skills
  44. Learn local bridal or funeral dress-making traditions, helping embroider ritual attire
  45. Join a weaving or quilting bee, contributing to a communal tapestry over days
  46. Explore medieval castles and listen to Gypsy brass bands in Romania
  47. Join a samovar tea party in Russia
  48. Make papier-mùché festival figures in Mexico
  49. Join a bamboo weaving workshop in Thailand
  50. Hear Bedouin stories
  51. Watch a kathakali performance in India
  52. Learn to ferment fish with Indigenous Alaskans in the USA (Alaska)
  53. Learn to make Moroccan couscous with a local family in Morocco
  54. Explore a Yoruba bead-making workshop in Nigeria
  55. Watch a traditional Kabyle dance performance in Algeria
  56. Attend a drumming ceremony in Australia
  57. Make ceremonial pottery with a Pueblo artisan in the USA (New Mexico)
  58. Watch calypso performances at the Vincy Mas festival in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
  59. Experience a fiafia night of Samoan dancing and fire shows in Samoa
  60. Wander San Marino’s medieval towers during a local festa in San Marino
  61. Dance to traditional rhythms during SĂŁo Tomé’s Independence Day in SĂŁo TomĂ© and PrĂ­ncipe
  62. Witness a camel race at the Janadriyah festival in Saudi Arabia
  63. Join a sabar drumming circle and taste thieboudienne in Senegal
  64. Learn calligraphy at a local school or shrine, practising decorative scripts
  65. Learn to play a folk instrument used only during certain celebrations
  66. Learn to write my name in Tamil scripts
  67. Record and illustrate local proverbs, their literal and cultural meanings
  68. Join a folk-dance troupe rehearsal, then perform at a village event
  69. Attend a nocturnal mask or lantern parade
  70. Visit Petra and watch Bedouin storytelling by firelight in Jordan
  71. Go on safari and hear Maasai chants around a fire in Kenya
  72. Witness a traditional canoe festival in South Tarawa, Kiribati
  73. Walk through souqs and sip strong Arabic coffee — Kuwait
  74. Attend the Song and Dance Festival with folk costumes — Latvia
  75. Dance to marimba music at the Palo de Mayo festival — Nicaragua
  76. Wander Skopje’s Old Bazaar and hear folk music — North Macedonia
  77. Wander Muscat’s souqs and watch dhow boats sail — Oman
  78. Watch a diablico sucio (devil dance) at Corpus Christi — Panama
  79. Join a tereré-sharing circle in a Paraguayan village
  80. Explore Nubian culture and music in Khartoum, Sudan
  81. Celebrate Holi Phagwa with colours and chutney music — Suriname
  82. Walk through Damascus souqs and hear oud music — Syria
  83. Watch a polo match during Nowruz celebrations — Tajikistan
  84. Join a drum and dance circle on Zanzibar’s beaches — Tanzania
  85. Dance to drum rhythms at the Ewe Hogbetsotso Festival — Togo
  86. Attend a tapa-making workshop — Tonga
  87. Celebrate Carnival with steel pan and limbo dancing — Trinidad & Tobago
  88. Visit Roman ruins and sip mint tea in a medina — Tunisia
  89. Visit a traditional Māori village in New Zealand
  90. Attend an all-night temple vigil or chanting session alongside monks or devotees

🔼 Spirituality

  1. Listen to Vedic chanting in a temple — India
  2. Join a whirling dervish Sufi ceremony — Turkey
  3. Witness a Bon shaman ritual in Tibet, China
  4. Join a drumming ritual with Voodoo healers
  5. Hike to a Himalayan monastery and spin prayer wheels in Nepal
  6. Join a traditional Native American sweat lodge ceremony in the USA
  7. Join a Hindu fire ceremony (havan) in India
  8. Attend a Mayan fire ceremony in Mexico
  9. Participate in a midnight Easter service
  10. Participate in a DĂ­a de Muertos altar assembly in Mexico
  11. Visit a sacred grove with a tribal guide in Cameroon
  12. Carry a shrine float in a local temple procession
  13. Help float flower boats or hand-made candles in water during festivals
  14. Take part in communal costume-making workshops before festivals
  15. Offer flower garlands or blessings before a major seasonal ritual
  16. Set off fireworks or lanterns as part of a spiritual send-off
  17. Be part of a ceremony, building ritual bonfires or altars, and helping collect materials
  18. Learn ancient ritual chants or liturgies in languages like Pali, Sanskrit, or Classical Nahuatl
  19. Take part in a community draping a sacred temple or shrine for a festival
  20. Alms in Luang Prabang
  21. Listen to monks chanting in a monastery
  22. Experience a full moon dance under the stars

🌍 Travel

  1. Snorkel pristine reefs and watch traditional story dances in Palau
  2. Dive the Great Barrier
  3. Party in Las Vegas.
  4. Visit Central Park and Central Perk.
  5. Blue Mountain National Park.
  6. Greece island hopping.
  7. Do an African Safari and add the charm to my El Camino bracelet
  8. Float in the Dead Sea
  9. See the pyramids of Giza
  10. Visit the Galapagos Islands or Raja Ampat
  11. Floating gardens in Srinagar’s Dal Lake
  12. Stay in Entalula Beach, El Nido, Palawan, Philippines
  13. Go to Papua New Guinea to complete visiting all three countries with “New” in the name
  14. Visit the colourful fishing port of Djibouti City and sip spiced Yemeni tea in Djibouti
  15. Stroll through Belgrade’s bohemian quarter in Serbia
  16. Explore an underground wine cave in Moldova
  17. Visit North Korea
  18. Stay with Bedouins in the desert, listening to ancestral prayers at night
  19. Walk a pilgrimage trail barefoot, such as in India or parts of South America
  20. Visit Suva with Fafa
  21. Visit Bagan temples at dawn in Myanmar
  22. Explore under-visited UNESCO World Heritage villages or settlements
  23. Trace my ancestry on-site — visit the villages or regions tied to my family history
  24. Visit Ayers Rock and eat bush tucker in Australia
  25. Watch penguins at Phillip Island
  26. Visit the Auschwitz Memorial

đŸ‡ŻđŸ‡” Japan

  1. Complete Kumano Kodo Pilgrimage.
  2. Explore the Kyoto bamboo forest. 
  3. Visit Kyoto during Gion Matsuri.
  4. Do the onigiri trail in Japan.
  5. Visit Adachi Fish Market in Tokyo and Kii Katsura Fish Market in Kii Katsura.
  6. Travel to all of Japan’s 47 prefectures by train.
  7. Watch the sunrise at Mt Fuji.
  8. Do a Japanese farm stay.
  9. Ride on themed trains in Japan.
  10. Stay in the Muji hotel.
  11. Stay in Muji Airbnb.
  12. Hike Mount Takao.
  13. Soak in Yumori no Sato: Tokyo’s Black Water Onsen.
  14. Bath in an outdoor onsen.
  15. Take a themed Hello Kitty Shinkansen
  16. Watch an Okinawan Eisa drum dance
  17. Watch a Sumo morning practice
  18. Attend a Shinto purification ritual
  19. Try saké crafting

🏹 Stay

  1. Stay overnight in a historic fort or castle, now converted into guest accommodations
  2. Stay overnight in an adobe pueblo
  3. Stay in an artist residency for a few days or weeks, producing work in a new cultural setting
  4. Stay in a yurt and taste fermented mare’s milk (kumis) in Kazakhstan
  5. Stay near a sacred spring or shrine, offering visits at dawn
  6. Do a station stay
  7. Stay in an ice hotel
  8. Stay in the Four Seasons
  9. Stay in one of the most famous hostels in Europe.
  10. Stay in a palace-turned-museum hotel, experiencing royalty-inspired service
  11. Stay in the Feng Shui house, Blue Mansion, in Penang, Malaysia.
  12. Stay in a beach house
  13. Stay on a farm in New Zealand
  14. Stay in a ryokan and enjoy kaiseki dining in Japan
  15. Stay in a hanok and learn Korean tea rituals – South Korea
  16. Stay in the Raffles Hotel Singapore
  17. Overnight stay in a Kerala backwaters boat
  18. Stay at a 5-star hotel
  19. Stay in an Airbnb

🌌 Experiences

  1. Write a letter to my future self at Café Pli in Paris
  2. Run and stay in The Open Book bookshop in Wigtown, Scotland
  3. Do yoga in the park.
  4. Fly somewhere First Class.
  5. Celebrate a birthday in Trans Siberian.
  6. Ghost tour.
  7. Host a themed costume party.
  8. Have a bonfire on a beach.
  9. Do a silent disco
  10. Sleep under the open sky on a mountain
  11. Trace the path of a famous explorer
  12. Plant rice seedlings with farmers
  13. Birdwatching at a local reserve
  14. Watch a meteor shower from a blanket
  15. Experience 24 hours of daylight in the Arctic
  16. Visit a poutine shack with locals in Canada
  17. Take part in oyster shucking
  18. Carve ice sculptures
  19. Lie on the floor listening to vinyl records
  20. Buy a toy from my childhood and play with it
  21. Explore a historic homestead
  22. Fly business class
  23. Play lawn bowls
  24. Go bowling
  25. Watch a sunrise from the highest point
  26. Go stargazing at the city’s observatory

đŸČ Food

  1. Make traditional luau dishes
  2. Learn to prepare ceviche
  3. Join a reenacted Viking feast
  4. Learn to make tamales for a fiesta
  5. Forage edible wild plants with herbalists, then taste local herbal teas
  6. Host a cultural dinner night with friends
  7. Taste every flavour of ice cream at my local shop
  8. Learn to make my Atta’s best recipe
  9. Buy candy from a store I loved as a kid
  10. Make a meal entirely from farmers’ market produce
  11. Eat fruit straight from the tree in an orchard.
  12. Eat goose intestine sausage in Germany.
  13. Taste laplap and watch kastom dances in Vanuatu
  14. Try Sheep’s head, roasted or boiled whole in Norway
  15. Eat Witchetty grubs, large edible larvae – Australia (Aboriginal bush food)
  16. Try Shirako (fish sperm sacs) and tuna eyeballs, boiled or steamed in Japan.
  17. Eat at a rotating rooftop restaurant
  18. Host a “midnight snack” picnic
  19. Try eating breakfast at midnight in a diner.
  20. Make my own jam and give it as a gift.
  21. Eat pizza in its birthplace in Naples.
  22. Try a cooking class in a cuisine I know nothing about.
  23. Bake bread in a clay oven
  24. Share a favourite recipe with a stranger
  25. Go foraging for truffles
  26. Do a progressive dinner with each course at a different spot
  27. Host a themed dinner party at home.
  28. Do a blindfolded dining experience.
  29. Brew my own beer or cider at a local brewery.
  30. Do a dessert-only dinner.
  31. Create a signature cocktail with a bartender.
  32. Try a hot wing or chilli-eating challenge.
  33. Have a picnic in the most iconic park.
  34. Go to a pop-up dinner or supper club.
  35. Book a private chef for a night.
  36. Try an extravagant tasting menu.
  37. Try Sapporo miso ramen.
  38. Eat at a 24-hour diner.
  39. Dining in the dark.
  40. Eat at Vue De Monde
  41. Bake a birthday cake.
  42. Try new cuisines — I’m thinking Lao, Afghan, Mauritian, Bhutan and…
  43. Eat Fugu – and not die.
  44. Do a barista course.
  45. Brew Belgian beer with a monk — Belgium
  46. Try Andean chicha corn beer
  47. Eat Pedro’s mom’s feijoada — Brazil
  48. Celebrate Oktoberfest with beer, pretzels, and lederhosen — Germany
  49. Learn to cook paella at the seaside
  50. Learn to prepare ceviche
  51. Try hotpot in Chengdu
  52. Brew karkadeh (hibiscus tea)
  53. Have a picnic by candlelight.
  54. Camel Burger.
  55. Visit a Bavarian bakery
  56. Eat Akutaq, Eskimo ice cream of fat, berries, and snow – Alaska, USA.
  57. Share biryani at a bustling bazaar during Eid — Pakistan
  58. Eat camel milk yogurt — Middle East / Africa
  59. Sip port wine in Porto
  60. Eat ceviche at a bustling market in Quito, Ecuador
  61. Learn to cook adobo
  62. Join a grape stomp during harvest
  63. Document family recipes from elders, then cook and share them with descendants
  64. Drive fish traps or gather in traditional fishing communities at dawn
  65. Host an international potluck, sharing meals and stories from across cultures
  66. Harvest medicinal forest plantings with forest guardians, under moonlight
  67. Harvest salt the old way with salt pan communities, working under the sun
  68. Learn to bake bread in a communal wood-fired oven, as done in Mediterranean villages
  69. Help with cheese-making or tea harvesting in rural farm cooperatives
  70. Cook in a nomadic family’s turf tent stove, learning open-fire cooking
  71. Harvest spices or coffee beans early in the morning, followed by processing
  72. Participate in an urban rooftop garden harvest and communal meal
  73. Prepare and eat a full ritual feast with a religious or cultural community
  74. Join a night-market cooking shift, helping locals prep food stalls
  75. Volunteer at a monastery garden or orchard, learning spiritual perspectives on food
  76. Hunt edible wild mushrooms or nuts with foragers, camping overnight in forest huts
  77. Eat pawpaw with chilli in Africa
  78. Eat chicha de jora, fermented corn beer in Peru
  79. Eat Gooseneck barnacles in Portugal
  80. Try fermented locusts in Africa / the Middle East
  81. Eat yak cheese, aged or fermented in Tibet / Nepal
  82. Eat blood pancakes
  83. Eat an egg soup
  84. Eat pho at a street stall in Hanoi on a rainy day
  85. Eat Sweetbreads
  86. Eat jollof rice
  87. Eat seagull eggs, fried or boiled, in Arctic regions
  88. Try Wagyu sukiyaki
  89. Drink Guinness at a pub in Ireland.
  90. Learn to make sushi.
  91. Eat yudofu.
  92. Host a costume dinner party.
  93. Host a “weird food combination” dinner
  94. Try cooking a dish from every continent
  95. Eat dessert before dinner
  96. Try fried jellyfish – China
  97. Eat Arctic Char
  98. Eat smĂžrrebrĂžd in Copenhagen, Denmark
  99. Eat chicken feet in a Yum Cha.
  100. Try fermented soybean (Natto) – Japan.
  101. Eat fermented fish sauce, a Southeast Asian delicacy
  102. Eat snake soup.
  103. Try sea cucumber.
  104. Taste goulash.

🧗 Adventures

  1. Earn the Dual Pilgrim badge
  2. See all the iconic Australia Big Things
  3. Run the London Marathon
  4. Attend Running of the Bulls in Pamplona, Spain
  5. Cross a suspension bridge without looking down
  6. Camp overnight in the nearest nature area
  7. Swim in my city’s natural swimming spot
  8. Spend a night in a treehouse
  9. Go indoor skydiving
  10. Do zip-lining.
  11. Go indoor rock climbing and outdoor rock climbing.
  12. Do a city scavenger hunt.
  13. Do a Segway or e-scooter tour
  14. Rent a jet ski at a local lake.
  15. Swim in two oceans in one day
  16. Be a tourist in my own city for a day with maps, cheesy photos, and souvenir shopping
  17. Join a night safari with indigenous rangers in Borneo
  18. Join a husky sled expedition with the Sami people in Lapland, Finland
  19. Join a community rebuilding project after natural disasters, learning solidarity traditions
  20. Attend a regional wrestling or folk sports event, or train with athletes
  21. Harvest or plant community fields
  22. Sleep at the festival grounds during harvest festivals, as part of preparations
  23. Participate in planting or ploughing ceremonies at spring festivals
  24. Help herders or shepherds move livestock seasonally, following transhumance routes
  25. Stay with families building traditional earthen or stone homes, participating in the build
  26. Participate in desert dune taming or oasis gardening to learn survival agriculture
  27. Participate in a sweat lodge, temazcal, or purification ritual guided by local elders
  28. Join a spiritual healing circle or healing drumming session with local practitioners
  29. Observe or assist in a ritual fish release at a temple or monastery (merit-making practice)
  30. Write prayers or wishes on temple flags or lanterns during a quiet evening release
  31. Explore a ghost town.
  32. Walk across an entire city in a day.
  33. Visit the oldest tree in my area.
  34. Spend time in a cabin without electricity.
  35. Swim in a hidden lake.
  36. Take a train just for the scenery.
  37. Spend a full day shadowing a local family, from market to meal to chores

🚆 Train

  1. Take Whoosh from Jakarta to Bandung
  2. Ride a historic steam train through heritage routes, such as the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway or the Jacobite in Scotland
  3. Take the Eurostar under the English Channel
  4. Ride the Orient Express
  5. Experience the Seven Stars Kyushu luxury train
  6. Cross the USA coast-to-coast by train
  7. Ride the Venice Simplon-Orient-Express in Europe
  8. Experience the Blue Train in South Africa
  9. Travel on the Eastern and Oriental Express from Singapore to Thailand
  10. Journey on the Golden Eagle Trans-Siberian Express across Russia, Mongolia, and China
  11. Ride the Indian Pacific in Australia
  12. Take the Jacobite Steam Train (“Harry Potter train”) in Scotland
  13. Ride the Renfe Cercanías commuter train — Spain
  14. Travel on the Thalys — France–Belgium–Netherlands–Germany
  15. Journey on the Glacier Express in Switzerland
  16. Experience the Bernina Express from Switzerland to Italy
  17. Take the Flam Railway in Norway
  18. Travel on the Danube Express in Eastern Europe
  19. Complete the Trans-Siberian Railway from Moscow to Vladivostok
  20. Travel the Balkan Flexipass route
  21. Take the Arctic Circle Train (Sweden–Norway)
  22. Try an overnight sleeper train in Europe
  23. Stay overnight in a train-turned-hotel in Sweden (Train Hostel)
  24. Ride a Christmas market train in Germany
  25. Try a wine-tasting train in California, USA
  26. Take a chocolate train in Switzerland
  27. Ride a steam-powered heritage train in Wales
  28. Take a train across the Sahara Desert (iron ore train) in Mauritania
  29. Ride the Cass Scenic Railroad in the USA
  30. Take a Lego-themed train in Denmark
  31. Ride a murder mystery dinner train
  32. Travel on an overnight couchette in Eastern Europe
  33. Take a desert train through the Outback in Australia
  34. Ride the Tren de la Costa, Train to the Clouds, and cross the Andes from Chile to Argentina
  35. Ride the Lapland Santa Claus Express (Finland)
  36. Take the TranzAlpine across the South Island — New Zealand
  37. Take the Bergen Line — Norway
  38. Ride the Al Andalus Train — Spain
  39. Take a cross-continental train ride.
  40. Travel on the Alaska Railroad to Denali
  41. Take the Sri Lanka Coastal Line train
  42. Ride the El Chepe through Mexico’s canyons
  43. Travel by train to Lhasa (Tibet)
  44. Ride across Eastern Europe with an Interrail pass
  45. Take the Indian Golden Triangle circuit by train
  46. Travel to Istanbul on the Bosphorus Express
  47. Ride across Australia’s Nullarbor Plain
  48. Take the Silk Road high-speed trains (China–Kazakhstan)
  49. Travel to Scotland on the London Caledonian Sleeper
  50. Ride the “slow TV” train through Norway (Bergen to Oslo, filmed)
  51. Travel on a sleeper train

đŸ§© Others

  1. Live a happy and fulfilling life
  2. Visit a lighthouse and climb to the top
  3. Visit a desert and listen to the silence.
  4. Find a four-leaf clover and press it into a journal.
  5. Try a VR gaming arcade
  6. Learn to shuffle cards like a casino dealer
  7. Learn to say your favourite quote in sign language
  8. Start a doodle wall (or notebook)
  9. Create a scrapbook of random ticket stubs
  10. Spend a night in a 24-hour café.
  11. Write thank-you letters to teachers who influenced me.
  12. Invite someone new to lunch.
  13. Interview my parents about their childhood.
  14. Give compliments freely for a week.
  15. Learn a song to sing for a loved one.
  16. Collect quirky magnets from everywhere I go.
  17. Visit a roadside attraction.
  1. Tick off all the things in my ever-growing Australia Bucket List and Japan Travel List.
  2. Visit a pearl farm tour in Broome, Australia.
  3. Tick off everything on my list of Australia’s iconic foods.
  4. Visit Indonesia’s equator city, Pontianak, Kalimantan.
  5. Holiday in the Cook Islands.
  6. Visit Skye just because Beth of Little Red Tarot used to write her beautiful posts from there.
  7. Visit some of the most beautiful bookstores in the world, including Atlantis Books, Shakespeare & Company, Boekhandel Dominicanen, The Last Bookstore in L.A., Book and Bed, and Word on the Water.
  8. Attend Karpe concert.
  9. Do an Ayahuasca retreat in South America.
  10. Visit The Happiness Museum in Denmark, meet Miek Wiking in person and get his author’s signature on one of his books.
  11. Tube down the river in Laos.
  12. Walk The Camino De Santiago In Spain.
  13. Summer swimming in Hampstead Ladies Pond.
  14. Ride on the Maharaja Express and The Ghan.
  15. Explore Jimbocho, Tokyo’s Booktown.
  16. Loy Krathong Lantern Festival.
  17. See the midnight sun.
  18. Bushwalk.
  19. Visit all the cities in my passport cover: Mexico City (and add North America charm on my El Camino bracelet), Sydney, Madrid, Amsterdam, Monaco, Bangkok, Barcelona, Athens, Berlin, Brussels, San Jose, Capetown, Edinburgh, Luxemburg, Copenhagen, Moscow, Lisbon, Prague, New York, Tokyo, Warsaw, Reykjavik, Hong Kong, Rome, Oslo, Boston, New Delhi, Cairo, Havana, Stockholm, San Fransisco, Tallinn, Canberra, Ottawa, Singapore, Rio, San Salvador, Helsinki, San Jose, Beijing, L.A., Dublin, London, Zagreb and Vienna.
  20. Do Disco Sauna.
  21. Hike the Pacific Crest Trail (inspired by Cheryl Strayed‘s Wild).
  22. Attend Austin Kleon‘s book launch.
  23. Take a ski course.
  24. Attend Eric Kim’s photography workshop in LA and Lee Chapman’s photowalk in Tokyo.
  25. Go camping and add the Tent charm to my bracelet.
  26. Buy a well-researched telescope and use it regularly.
  27. Take a weekend cruise and add the charm to my El Camino bracelet.
  28. Watch a Sumo Wrestle.
  29. Make a Yayoi Kusama art travel trail.
  30. And Haruki Murakami’s travel trail.
  31. Visit the Southern Ocean and discover the charm on my El Camino bracelet.
  32. Attend a soul retreat workshop.
  33. Publish an article in a magazine.
  34. Gamble in Macau.
  35. Go to the Bahamas just so I can add the Caribbean Sea charm to my El Camino Bracelet.
  36. Complete my Onigiri map trail.
  37. Celebrate the Chinese New Year in Beijing, China.
  38. Celebrate New Year’s Eve in Times Square.
  39. Go on the Sex and the City tour in the USA.
  40. Visit Crystal Castle in Queensland.
  41. Travel around the world for an entire year.
  42. Write a book.
  43. Trek in the Himalayas.
  44. Wave to the Statue of Liberty.
  45. Celebrate the Oktoberfest in Germany.
  46. Savour authentic Sri Lankan cuisine in Sri Lanka and add the charm of the Indian Ocean.
  47. Sleepover in a Tibetan monastery.
  48. Visit Greenland to see a Puffin and a Polar Bear, and add both the Arctic and Atlantic Ocean charms to my El Camino bracelet.
  49. Travel by myself to another country.
  50. Take a selfie at the Taj Mahal at sunrise.
  51. Aurora Australis.
  52. Trek to Machu Picchu and add a South American charm to my El Camino bracelet.
  53. Walk across the Golden Gate Bridge.
  54. Walk on a Black Sand Beach in Hawaii.
  55. Eat a Camel burger.
  56. Walk on the pink beach in Lombok.
  57. Visit the Pink Lake in Western Australia.
  58. Walk on a glacier.
  59. Take a selfie in front of the seven wonders of the world.
  60. Research my family origins.
  61. Pay for a stranger’s coffee.
  63. Have a trip planned for me.
  64. Rode a mechanical bull.
  65. Build a snowman.
  66. Keep a pet sheep
  67. See Egypt’s pyramids and the Red Sea (and add the charm).
  68. Compete on Come Dine With Me.
  69. Wave Rock in Western Australia.
  70. Live in a place where I don’t speak the local language.
  71. Buy an abandoned house in Japan.
  72. Sail on the Baltic Sea.
  73. Visit The Bookshop in Wigtown, Scotland.
  74. Visit Tiwi Island in the NT.
  75. Visit Darwin again in the wet season, hike in the Monsoon Forest, take a sunset cruise, and eat Mud crabs.
  76. Visit Katherine Gorge.
  77. Taste matcha dessert in Uji, Japan.
  78. Watch the crocodile race at Berry Springs Tavern and swim in Berry Creek.
  79. Visit Fogg Dam.
  80. Visit 22 of Australia’s Big Things.
  81. Go on an Antarctica expedition and add the charm to my El Camino Bracelet.
  82. Do a Balinese purification ceremony.
  83. Attend Ngaben.
  84. Do the Polar Plunge.
  85. Join a pub trivia night.
  86. See ancient stromatolites in WA.
  87. Do a cultural tour of the Country with an Indigenous guide.
  88. Go to the Melbourne International Film Festival.
  89. Attend the AFL Grand Final at the MCG.
  90. Attend Sydney’s Mardi Gras parade.
  91. Visit Jeonju and help make kimchi in a home kitchen.
  92. Watch cricket at the SCG.
  93. Visit Sovereign Hill and pan for gold.
  94. Visit the canals of Bruges and eat Belgian waffles.
  95. Attend the Melbourne Cup.
  96. Watch the Sydney to Hobart yacht race finish.
  97. Go to the Adelaide Fringe Festival
  98. Taste flying fish and macaroni pie at Oistins Fish Fry – Barbados.
  99. Experience a banya (steam bath) ritual with locals – Belarus.
  100. Celebrate Garifuna Settlement Day with drumming and dancing – Belize.
  101. Witness a Voodoo festival in Ouidah in Benin.
  102. Celebrate Carnaval de Oruro with devil dancers and folk music in Bolivia
  104. Visit Kampong Ayer, the world’s largest water village in Brunei.
  105. Walk the Bondi to Coogee coastal track.
  106. See ballet live.
  107. Watch an outdoor movie screening.
  108. Selfie in front of the Hollywood sign.
  109. Hang in Costa Rica and add the Central America charm to my El Camino bracelet.
  110. Roam a medieval castle.
  111. Learn a traditional dance from my own culture.
  112. Visit my city’s oldest library.
  113. Go on a street art walking tour.
  114. Learn calligraphy.
  115. See a drag show.
  116. Explore Pompeii ruins in Italy.
  117. Sip green tea and share naan bread in a traditional chaikhana – Afghanistan.
  118. Celebrate Carnival with colourful costumes and steel pan bands – Antigua and Barbuda.
  119. Hear haunting spiritual chants at Geghard Monastery in Armenia.
  120. Try sleeping under the stars without a tent.
  121. Try on a white wedding dress.
  122. Get lost in a corn maze.
  123. Discover the ancient fire temple of Ateshgah near Baku, Azerbaijan.
  124. Visit the Manama Souq and try Arabic coffee with dates – Bahrain.
  125. Cruise the Sundarbans and watch traditional Baul folk music – Bangladesh.
  126. Travel to a country I can’t pronounce easily
  127. Take a year to live somewhere completely new.
  128. List down the top three best Bhan Mi places in Melbourne.
  129. Trace my family tree back five generations.
  130. Ride in a submarine.
  131. Go on a silent retreat.
  132. Watch the sunrise from the highest place in the city.
  133. Write down my grandparents’ life stories.
  134. Keep a dream diary for a month.
  135. Explore Bogotá’s street art and eat bandeja paisa in Colombia.
  136. Discover Aka pygmy polyphonic singing – Central African Republic.
  137. Visit Rapa Nui (Easter Island) and watch traditional Polynesian dance – Chile.
  138. Memorise a poem and recite it in public.
  139. Ride the ferry-linked Malmö–Copenhagen train across the Øresund Bridge.
  140. Take a safari train excursion in South Africa.
  141. Enjoy Creole cuisine and music during the Creole Festival in Seychelles.
  142. Watch a masked devil dance in a village ceremony in Sierra Leone.
  143. Listen to haunting folk songs at a castle festival in Slovakia.
  144. Explore Ljubljana’s Old Town and enjoy accordion folk music in Slovenia.
  145. Walk through Versailles during the golden hour.
  146. Witness panpipe music and dances at a village feast – Solomon Islands.
  147. Join a camel caravan and taste spiced Somali tea.
  148. Sip tea and share stories in a traditional teahouse – Iran.
  149. Walk through bustling bazaars and enjoy kebab feasts – Iraq.
  150. Visit Petra and watch Bedouin storytelling by firelight – Jordan.
  151. Dance reggae to the beat of live drums at a beach party – Jamaica.
  152. Visit a township jazz club in Cape Town.
  153. Attend a cattle wrestling festival in Juba, South Sudan.
  154. Ride on a Hot Air Balloon and add the charm to my El Camino bracelet.
  155. Ride horses and join a desert yurt feast – Turkmenistan
  156. Watch a fatele dance during Tuvalu Day – Tuvalu
  157. Track gorillas and enjoy drum circles by the fire in Uganda
  158. Paint pysanky Easter eggs and dance the hopak in Ukraine.
  159. Sip ale in a centuries-old pub and watch Morris dancing in the United Kingdom.
  160. Dance tango on the streets of Montevideo, Uruguay.
  161. Visit Jaipur’s palaces and eat Rajasthani thali in India.
  162. Write a 6-word autobiography.
  163. Learn to fold fitted sheets properly.
  164. Memorise the constellations of the night sky.
  165. Write my signature with my non-dominant hand.
  166. Build a fort out of blankets.
  167. Illustrate my own short comic.
  168. Make origami animals and leave them in public places.
  169. Collect fortunes from fortune cookies.
  170. Spin a globe and put my finger on a random spot, and visit it.
  171. Swim with bioluminescent plankton.
  172. Spend a night in a castle.
  173. Watch a solar eclipse in totality.
  175. Make snow angels (or sand angels if no snow!).
  176. Plant a tree and give it a name.
  177. Angkor Wat in sunrise.
  178. Go on a road trip with no predetermined destination.
  179. Take a selfie in front of the Berlin Wall.
  180. Plant a flower.
  181. Eat food truck food.
  182. Eat fried frog legs, a French delicacy.
  183. Eat Lutefisk, dried and lye-treated fish in Norway.
  184. Eat sea urchin (Uni).
  185. Host a party, a pyjamas and a sleepover party.
  186. Make new international friends while travelling.
  187. Eat at Sushi Train and Cheese Train restaurants.
  188. Have a drink at a proper wine bar.
  189. Eat Happy Pizza in Cambodia.
  190. Eat white pepper crab in Singapore.
  191. Soak in an Onsen.
  192. Have Japanese Kaiseki.
  193. Visit Disneyland and sleep at a Disney hotel.
  194. Write a letter to someone who inspired me.
  195. Eat at Jiro Sushi.
  196. Watch the iconic tuna auction at Tsukiji fish market.
  197. Go to the Maid Cafe and the Cat Cafe.
  198. Walk down Sydney Darling Harbour.
  199. Show up in PJs for work.
  200. Migrate to Australia.
  201. See the Penguins on Philip Island.
  202. Hike to the top of a volcano.
  203. Stay out all night till the sun comes up.
  204. Visit places in Eat, Pray, Love.
  205. Take a canal cruise in Amsterdam.
  206. Ride an elephant.
  207. Eat Durian and successfully convince others to try Durian.
  208. Search for Nemo and Mola Mola.
  209. Vivid Sydney Festival.
  210. Paddle steamer on the Murray River.
  211. Attend the Dark Mofo Festival in Tassie.
  212. Spend winter in the Alps.
  213. Ride Euro Rail.
  214. Eat Sacher Torte in Vienna.
  215. Ride on the London double-decker bus.
  216. Eat Belgian chocolate in Belgium.
  217. Send a postcard from Vatican City.
  218. Take a dance class.
  219. Take a painting class.
  220. White water rafting.
  221. Shoot an AK-47.
  222. Eat Hyderabad biryani in India.
  223. Throw a coin into the Trevi Fountain.
  224. Visit Coco Chanel’s apartment and Hemingway’s Coffeeshop.
  225. Great Ocean Road.
  226. Visit the Colosseum at dawn and eat pasta while in Rome.
  227. Hanami in Japan.
  228. Attend a spicy food competition.
  229. Pinnacles in Western Australia.
  230. Explore Melbourne laneways.
  231. Hot Spring in Mornington Peninsula.
  232. Ride an elephant.
  233. Walk the historic laneways of Melbourne.
  234. Celebrate the Holi festival.
  235. Participate in a local festival.
  236. Get my astrological chart drawn up.
  237. Get a tarot reading.
  238. Walk barefoot in Squeaky Beach, one of the most beautiful beaches in the world, at Wilsons Promontory National Park.
  239. Watch a play.
  240. Attend a Welcome To The Country Ceremony.
  241. Visit the State Library of Victoria.
  242. See Kata Tjuta at sunrise.
  243. See a show at the Arts Centre Melbourne
  244. Attend the Sydney Writers’ Festival
  245. Visit the Fremantle Prison.
  246. Drink beer at an outback pub.
  247. Watch the Sydney New Year’s Eve fireworks.
  248. See a show at the Sydney Opera House.
  249. Visit MONA in Hobart.
  250. Experience Dreamtime storytelling from an Indigenous Elder.
  251. See Aboriginal rock art in Kakadu.
  252. Celebrate Onam.
  253. Go whale watching.
  254. Witness a proposal.
  255. Meet a geisha.
  256. Visit an onsen town in Japan.
  257. See the lavender farm.
  258. Dine on top of the Eiffel Tower.
  259. Have a coffee at Hemingway’s regular coffee shop.
  260. Decorate a Christmas tree.
  261. Have breakfast in bed and stay in bed.
  262. Join or start a book club.
  263. Learn to say “thank you” in 10 different languages.
  264. Stargazing until I saw a shooting star.
  265. Take pictures of the Snow Monkey looking zen.
  266. Ride a cable car.
  267. Take a cooking class.
  268. Throw axe.
  269. Make cookies from scratch.
  270. Miss my plane.
  271. Grow vegetables in the garden and cook a meal with them.
  272. Chakra balancing session.
  273. Ride a Vespa.
  274. Soak in a thermal hot spring.
  275. Hike Mount Bromo.
  276. Omakase in Japan and outside of Japan.
  277. Shibuya Crossing in Tokyo.
  278. Make and eat Onsen Tamago aka Hot Spring Egg.
  279. Jjimjilbang experience in South Korea.
  280. Visit all Australian states.
  281. Master a favourite easy-to-cook meal: Rassam.
  282. Read tarot accurately for others.
  283. Drink Kopi Luwak.
  284. Greet a local with A-yƏng-ha-se-yo in Korea.
  285. Walk in a swimsuit on Bondi Beach.
  286. Own an original painting.
  287. Eat French food outside of France.
  288. Taste dim sum and wonton noodles in Hong Kong.
  289. Experience a fish spa.
  290. Karaoke Party with colleagues.
  291. Visit the Sistine Chapel.
  292. See the Northern Lights (Aurora Borealis) and the charm on my El Camino bracelet.
  293. Soak in the Blue Lagoon.
  294. Pet Cafe.
  295. Try pickled herring with onions.
  296. Eat pickled century egg in China.
  297. Try frog porridge in Geylang, Singapore.
  298. Take a nap in a hammock.
  299. Eat breakfast outside on a weekday.
  300. Watch clouds and name their shapes.
  301. Try a different tea every day for a week.
  302. Take myself out on a solo date.
  303. Getting evacuated from the hotel.
  304. Taste chocolate in a Brussels chocolaterie in Belgium.
  305. Visit Uluru.
  306. Snorkel.
  307. Skinny dip in the ocean.
  308. Go on a picnic or two.
  309. Blow dandelion seeds and make a wish.
  310. Find a waterfall and stand under it.
  311. Try eating only local food for a day
  312. Make a dish with only five ingredients.
  313. Cook from a handwritten recipe.
  314. Eat at a restaurant with no menu (chef’s choice).
  315. Eat with chopsticks for every meal in one day.
  316. Eat something I grew myself.
  317. Write a song, even if silly.
  318. Try Pho in Ho Chi Minh City.
  319. Sleep in a capsule hotel.
  320. Taste lavender ice cream in Furano.
  321. Attend the Australian Open tennis in Melbourne.
  322. Write a thank-you letter to my favourite author.
  323. Make a vision board with magazines.
  324. Create my own holiday and celebrate it.
  325. Host a game night for friends
  326. Start a pen-pal exchange.
  327. Leave encouraging notes in library books
  328. Send flowers anonymously.
  329. Tell someone their laugh is wonderful.
  330. See Kyoto autumn leaves.
  331. Go go-kart racing.
  332. Go kayaking on Sydney Harbour with the iconic Opera House as a backdrop.
  333. Go horseback riding.
  334. Photoautomat in Berlin.
  335. Feed the deer in Nara.
  336. Make a wish at the Fontana di Trevi, Rome.
  337. Participate in the Smoking Ceremony.
  338. Send a mail to my future self.
  339. Snack galore in Taipei Night Market.
  340. Eat a South Indian thali in Chennai, India.
  341. Explore Budapest baths and eat chimney cake in Hungary.
  342. Eat fresh grilled octopus in Santorini.
  343. Witness Ramadan and Eid celebrations.
  344. Join a local meetup for a hobby.
  345. Visit Gyeongbokgung Palace.
  346. Organise a board game marathon.
  347. Walk the trail in the nearest reserve.
  348. Sleep in my living room instead of my bed.
  349. Spend a day wearing only one colour.
  350. Teach someone my favourite childhood game.
  351. Learn the story behind a stranger’s tattoo.
  352. Learn to play an instrument and perform one song.
  353. Spend New Year’s Eve in a different country
  354. Make a time capsule and bury it.
  355. Whisper a wish into a well.
  356. Eat Hokkaido Snow Crab in Sapporo.
  357. Watch an independent film at a small cinema.
  358. Hunt down the best street food stall.
  359. Visit a town with a funny name.
  360. Wear mismatched socks on purpose.
  361. Do the Dumpling Crawl in Melbourne with a friend.
  362. Complete Melbourne chai crawl.
  363. Visit a food truck in my city.
  364. Attend a local art opening.
  365. Attend a poetry slam night.
  366. Explore the temples of Prambanan during sunrise.
  367. Eat fondue in a chalet in Switzerland.
  368. Eat at a Michelin-starred food court and restaurant.
  369. Eat Possum.
  370. Watch a crocodile feeding in Darwin.
  371. Learn a foreign language.
  372. Catch a fish.
  373. Attend a Javanese wedding ceremony.
  374. Try Balinese kopi luwak coffee in Ubud.
  375. Be a witness at a wedding.
  376. Milk a cow.
  377. Great Wall of China.
  378. Watch a Javanese dance ceremony.
  379. Drive an autorickshaw in India.
  380. Eat Sannakji at Noryangjin Fish Market in Seoul, South Korea.
  381. Get a matchy couple tattoo to commemorate married life.
  382. Marry my best friend.
  383. Habituating Hobbiton in Rotorua, New Zealand.
  384. Stargazing in the Outback.
  385. Visit a Chinatown in Sydney, Melbourne, and
  386. Drink Trappist beer brewed by monks in a centuries-old abbey in Belgium.
  387. Watch the fire-dancing ritual of Nestinarstvo in Strandzha, Bulgaria.
  388. Reconnect with an old friend over coffee.
  389. Mail a postcard to myself from another city.
  390. Volunteer for a cause that moves me
  391. Compliment 10 strangers in one day
  392. Create a family recipe book.
  393. Dance with someone in the kitchen.
  394. Spend a whole day without my phone.
  395. Buy a random book from the dollar bin.
  396. Visit a country during a major festival.
  397. Take a long, candlelit bubble bath.
  398. Watch the sunrise without checking my phone
  399. Wear pyjamas all day without guilt.
  400. Visit a shearing shed to see sheep being shorn.
  401. Do a local food crawl in my own city.
  402. Take a ferry across Sydney Harbour.
  403. See humpback whales migrate along the coast.
  404. Go to the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.
  405. Watch a live stand-up at a local comedy club.
  406. See a local pub band play live music.
  407. Meditate under a tree.
  408. Sleep with the windows open to the fresh air
  409. Ride bumper cars at a fair
  410. Enter a silly contest at a local festival.
  411. Ride in the front seat of a rollercoaster
  412. Walk through a funhouse mirror maze
  413. Taste cheese from five different countries (the Netherlands, France, Switzerland, Australia and Austria).
  414. Hunt down the best dumplings in my city.
  415. Eat a food I don’t know the name of.
  416. Make a zine and leave copies in a café.
  417. Make my own greeting cards.
  418. Write a postcard to my future self.
  419. Ride the regional train from Taiwan to Hualien.
  420. Try Belgian waffles in Brussels.
  421. Attend a night market and try exotic street snacks in Thailand.
  422. Ride a tuk-tuk through city alleys.
  423. Watch a Kabuki play in full costume.
  424. Learn hand-painting at a batik workshop.
  425. Take part in a henna painting ceremony.
  426. Explore ancient cave painting sites.
  427. Participate in a Japanese tea ceremony in Japan.
  428. Walk through Salzburg’s historic centre.
  429. Ride the City Circle Tram in Melbourne.
  430. Ride a tram to St Kilda.
  431. Explore the Fitzroy Gardens.
  432. Walk barefoot across soft grass
  433. Start a sketchbook, even if I “can’t draw”.
  434. Record my laughter and listen back.
  435. Build something with LEGO as an adult.
  436. Paint my front door a cheerful colour.
  437. Start a collection of tiny objects.
  438. Write a letter to my future self
  439. Write my name in the sand (and snow) and wait for the tide.
  440. Try ice skating.
  441. Do a random act of kindness anonymously.
  442. Write a haiku.
  443. Try to solve a Rubik’s Cube.
  444. Keep a plant alive for one year.
  445. Drink Pilsner in a traditional beer hall in the Czech Republic.
  446. Eat Surströmming, fermented Baltic herring – Sweden.
  447. Attend a didgeridoo performance at Uluru.
  448. Visit a desert camp for oud music and henna art in the United Arab Emirates.
  449. Try Balut, a Filipino delicacy.
  450. Eat HĂĄkarl, fermented shark meat in Iceland.
  451. Ride a carousel horse with gold reins.
  452. Enjoy hygge with candles, coffee, and pastries in a cozy café in Denmark.
  453. Explore Horyu-ji temple in Nara.
  454. Join a coffee ceremony and taste injera with spicy stews – Ethiopia.
  455. Witness a traditional kava ceremony in a village gathering in Fiji.
  456. Relax in a lakeside sauna, then dip in the icy waters of Finland.
  457. Picnic with a baguette, cheese, and wine under the Eiffel Tower in France.
  458. Stroll through whitewashed villages and hear bouzouki music in Greece.
  459. Watch a wayang kulit shadow puppet performance in Indonesia.
  460. Ride a gondola and listen to opera in Venice.
  461. Experience a traditional tea ceremony in Kyoto, Japan.
  462. Drink Umeshu in Wakayama.
  463. Enjoy Yakitori at the Japan Summer Festival.
  464. Try an escape room.
  465. Selfie in front of Platform 9 3/4.
  466. Try Kobe beef in Kobe.
  467. Watch Kabuki theatre.
  468. Eat pierogi in KrakĂłw, Poland.
  469. Try Unagi don in Hamamatsu, Japan.
  470. Visit the gardens of Schönbrunn Palace in Austria and eat schnitzel in Vienna.
  471. And try Tonkatsu in Tokyo.
  472. Stroll through a desert souq and watch falconry.
  473. Take the Puffing Billy steam railway.
  474. Savour hawker food and see lion dances at the Lunar New Year in Singapore.
  475. Savour a croissant in a Parisian café and drink espresso at a Roman café.
  476. Ride Japan’s Shinkansen “bullet train”.
  477. Travel on Korea’s KTX train.
  478. Eat foie gras in France.
  479. Try bird’s nest soup, made from edible nests.
  480. Try crocodile meat, grilled or stewed.
  481. Buy flowers for myself
  482. Visit a food festival and sample everything.
  483. Taste the spiciest food I dare.
  484. Try a food I once swore I never would.
  485. Take a day off to wander without a plan.
  486. Try fortune-telling with a deck of playing cards.
  487. Take a road trip with no destination
  488. Spend a rainy day in pyjamas watching movies
  489. Take a train across an entire country.
  490. Write a love letter to myself and hide it in a book.
  491. Jump into a pile of autumn leaves like a kid.
  492. Blow soap bubbles in the park just because.
  493. Keep a “happiness jar”.
  494. Visit Brunswick’s mural-covered streets.
  495. Learn the art of Balinese offering-making – canang sari.
  496. Watch a Gamelan orchestra performance – Indonesia.
  497. Visit a hammam bathhouse in Morocco.
  498. Experience ancient salt-mining rituals, explore KrakĂłw Old Town and eat pierogi in Poland.