Side Quests

🏺 Culture

1. Participate in a salt harvest in Bolivia
2. Experience a banya (steam bath) ritual with locals in Belarus
3. Celebrate Garifuna Settlement Day in Belize
4. Witness a Voodoo festival in Ouidah
5. Visit Kampong Ayer in Brunei
6. Celebrate Carnival in Antigua and Barbuda
7. Hear chants at Geghard Monastery in Armenia
8. Discover the Ateshgah fire temple in Azerbaijan
9. Cruise the Sundarbans and watch Baul folk music in Bangladesh
10. Discover Aka pygmy polyphonic singing in the Central African Republic
11. Visit Rapa Nui and watch Polynesian dance in Chile
12. Visit a township jazz club in Cape Town
13. Attend a cattle wrestling festival in South Sudan
14. Watch Morris dancing in the UK
15. Learn the art of T’ai chi at dawn in China
16. Witness a bull-jumping ritual
17. Experience an ancient Polynesian fire dance
18. Celebrate Midsummer with bonfires
19. Join a Dayak longhouse celebration in Borneo
20. Wear a costume in public outside of Halloween
21. See a Broadway show in New York
22. See traditional bamboo weaving in a rural village in East Timor (Timor-Leste)
23. Participate in a rice harvest festival
24. Dance salsa in Havana’s open-air club
25. Experience a village wine festival in Cyprus
26. Celebrate Spicemas Carnival with soca and calypso rhythms in Grenada
27. Explore Mayan ruins and taste atol de elote in Guatemala
28. Hear traditional griot storytelling with kora music in Guinea
29. Witness a colourful carnival with masks and costumes
30. Explore Amerindian culture and taste pepperpot stew in Guyana
31. Celebrate Feria Juniana with music, parades, and food in Honduras
32. Participate in a Kurdish dabke dance in Iraq
33. Watch a Bolivian cholita wrestling match
34. Watch a Bhutanese masked dance
35. Lantern festival
36. Experience a Mongolian ger wedding ceremony
37. Participate in a Kurdish dabke dance in Iraq
38. Learn to play the djembe in Mali
39. See ancient petroglyphs or cave paintings in remote landscapes
40. Go to a drag brunch
41. Join a night archaeological dig, helping researchers uncover the past
42. Join a cultural festival parade
43. Attend a traditional court ceremony
44. Explore medieval castles and listen to Gypsy brass bands in Romania
45. Make papier-mâché festival figures in Mexico
46. Join a bamboo weaving workshop in Thailand
47. Hear Bedouin stories
48. Watch a kathakali performance in India
49. Watch a traditional Kabyle dance performance in Algeria
50. Attend a drumming ceremony in Australia
51. Make ceremonial pottery with a Pueblo artisan in the USA (New Mexico)
52. Participate in a local oral history recording project, preserving indigenous stories
53. Take a living-history camp experience, learning medieval, Viking, or indigenous survival skills
54. Learn local bridal or funeral dress-making traditions, helping embroider ritual attire
55. Join a weaving or quilting bee, contributing to a communal tapestry over days
56. Watch calypso performances at the Vincy Mas festival in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
57. Experience a fiafia night of Samoan dancing and fire shows in Samoa
58. Wander San Marino’s medieval towers during a local festa in San Marino
59. Dance to traditional rhythms during São Tomé’s Independence Day in São Tomé and Príncipe
60. Witness a camel race at the Janadriyah festival in Saudi Arabia
61. Join a sabar drumming circle and taste thieboudienne in Senegal
62. Learn to play a folk instrument used only during certain celebrations
63. Learn to write my name in Tamil scripts
64. Record and illustrate local proverbs, their literal and cultural meanings
65. Join a folk-dance troupe rehearsal, then perform at a village event
66. Attend a nocturnal mask or lantern parade
67. Visit Petra and watch Bedouin storytelling by firelight in Jordan
68. Go on safari and hear Maasai chants around a fire in Kenya
69. Witness a traditional canoe festival in South Tarawa in Kiribati
70. Walk through souqs and sip strong Arabic coffee in Kuwait
71. Attend the Song and Dance Festival with folk costumes in Latvia
72. Dance to marimba music at the Palo de Mayo festival in Nicaragua
73. Wander Skopje’s Old Bazaar and hear folk music in North Macedonia
74. Wander Muscat’s souqs and watch dhow boats sail in Oman
75. Watch a diablico sucio (devil dance) at Corpus Christi in Panama
76. Join a tereré-sharing circle in a Paraguayan village
77. Explore Nubian culture and music in Khartoum, Sudan
78. Celebrate Holi Phagwa with colours and chutney music in Suriname
79. Walk through Damascus souqs and hear oud music in Syria
80. Watch a polo match during Nowruz celebrations in Tajikistan
81. Join a drum and dance circle on Zanzibar’s beaches in Tanzania
82. Dance to drum rhythms at the Ewe Hogbetsotso Festival in Togo
83. Attend a tapa-making workshop in Tonga
84. Celebrate Carnival with steel pan and limbo dancing in Trinidad & Tobago
85. Visit Roman ruins and sip mint tea in a medina in Tunisia
86. Attend a didgeridoo performance at Uluru
87. Visit a desert camp for oud music and henna art in the United Arab Emirates
88. Celebrate Onam
89. Celebrate the Chinese New Year in Beijing, China
90. Visit Brunswick’s mural-covered streets.
91. Learn the art of Balinese offering-making – canang sari
92. Experience Dreamtime storytelling from an Indigenous Elder
93. See Aboriginal rock art in Kakadu
94. Watch a Gamelan orchestra performance – Indonesia
95. Visit a hammam bathhouse in Morocco
96. Visit a traditional Māori village in New Zealand
97. Learn calligraphy at a local school or shrine, practising decorative scripts
98. Learn a traditional dance from my own culture
99. Attend an all-night temple vigil or chanting session alongside monks or devotees

🔮 Spirituality

1. Listen to Vedic chanting in a temple in India
2. Misty tea hills of Ella, Sri Lanka
3. Sleepover in a Tibetan monastery
4. Tiger’s Nest Monastery in Bhutan
5. Attend a soul retreat workshop
6. Sleepover in a Tibetan monastery
7. Witness a Bon shaman ritual in Tibet, China
8. Do a Balinese purification ceremony
9. Attend Ngaben in Bali
10. Join a Hindu fire ceremony (havan) in India
11. Attend a Mayan fire ceremony in Mexico
12. Do an Ayahuasca retreat in South America
13. Blue City of Jodhpur, India
14. Wander the ancient Silk Road cities (Samarkand & Bukhara) in Uzbekistan
15. Pink Mosque in Putrajaya, Malaysia
16. Maldivian sandbank picnic with zero crowds
17. Spend a night in a luxury desert camp in Wadi Rum (Jordan/Western Asia)
18. Walk through the quiet bamboo groves of Arashiyama at sunrise
19. Yoga retreat in Bali, Indonesia
20. Join a whirling dervish Sufi ceremony in Turkey
21. Witness a Bon shaman ritual in Tibet, China
22. Join a drumming ritual with Voodoo healers
23. Hike to a Himalayan monastery and spin prayer wheels in Nepal
24. Join a traditional Native American sweat lodge ceremony in the USA
25. Join a Hindu fire ceremony (havan) in India
26. Attend a Mayan fire ceremony in Mexico
27. Participate in a midnight Easter service
28. Participate in a Día de Muertos altar assembly in Mexico
29. Visit a sacred grove with a tribal guide in Cameroon
30. Carry a shrine float in a local temple procession
31. Help float flower boats or hand-made candles in water during festivals
32. Take part in communal costume-making workshops before festivals
33. Learn ancient ritual chants or liturgies in languages like Pali, Sanskrit, or Classical Nahuatl
34. Get my astrological chart drawn up
35. Get a tarot reading
36. Visit Uluru
37. Offer flower garlands or blessings before a major seasonal ritual
38. Attend a Welcome To The Country Ceremony
39. Be part of a ceremony, building ritual bonfires or altars, and helping collect materials
40. Take part in a community draping a sacred temple or shrine for a festival
41. Grand Palace in Bangkok, Thailand
42. Torii Gates at Fushimi Inari, Kyoto
43. in the sacred holy water at Tirta Empul, Bali
44. Watch the sunrise over Angkor Wat, Cambodia
45. Alms in Luang Prabang
46. Listen to monks chanting in a monastery
47. Explore the temples of Prambanan during sunrise
48. Experience a full moon dance under the stars

🌍 Travel

1. Snorkel pristine reefs and watch traditional story dances in Palau
2. Visit The Bookshop in Wigtown, Scotland
3. Wave Rock in Western Australia
4. Celebrate New Year’s Eve in Times Square
5. Go on the Sex and the City tour in the USA
6. Take a selfie at the Taj Mahal at sunrise
7. Memorise a poem and recite it in public
8. Illustrate my own short comic
9. Write a 6-word autobiography
10. Spin a globe and visit a random place
11. Spend a night in a castle
12. Plant a tree and give it a name
13. Visit Tiwi Island in the NT
14. Visit Katherine Gorge
15. Visit Darwin again in the wet season, hike in the Monsoon Forest, take a sunset cruise, and eat Mud crabs.
16. Ride horses and join a desert yurt feast – Turkmenistan
17. Visit Crystal Castle in Queensland
18. Travel around the world for an entire year
19. Wave to the Statue of Liberty
20. Walk on a Black Sand Beach in Hawaii
21. Walk on the pink beach in Lombok
22. Visit Indonesia’s equator city, Pontianak, Kalimantan
23. Holiday in the Cook Islands
24. Visit Skye just because Beth of Little Red Tarot used to write her beautiful posts from there
25. Live in a place where I don’t speak the local language
26. See the midnight sun
27. Wave Rock in Western Australia Bushwalk
28. Watch a fatele dance during Tuvalu Day – Tuvalu
29. Track gorillas and enjoy drum circles by the fire in Uganda
30. Paint pysanky Easter eggs and dance the hopak in Ukraine.
31. Ride the ferry-linked Malmö–Copenhagen train across the Øresund Bridge.
32. Take a safari train excursion in South Africa.
33. Enjoy Creole cuisine and music during the Creole Festival in Seychelles.
34. Watch a masked devil dance in a village ceremony in Sierra Leone.
35. Listen to haunting folk songs at a castle festival in Slovakia.
36. Explore Ljubljana’s Old Town and enjoy accordion folk music in Slovenia.
37. Witness panpipe music and dances at a village feast – Solomon Islands.
38. Visit Petra and watch Bedouin storytelling by firelight – Jordan.
39. Dance reggae to the beat of live drums at a beach party – Jamaica.
40. Dance tango on the streets of Montevideo, Uruguay.
41. Visit Jaipur’s palaces and eat Rajasthani thali in India.
42. Dive the Great Barrier
43. Explore Pompeii ruins in Italy
44. Party in Las Vegas.
45. Visit Central Park and Central Perk.
46. Explore the Blue Mountains National Park.
47. Greece island hopping.
48. Do an African Safari and add the charm to my El Camino bracelet
49. Float in the Dead Sea
50. See the pyramids of Giza
51. Visit the Galapagos Islands or Raja Ampat
52. Floating gardens in Srinagar’s Dal Lake
53. Stay in Entalula Beach, El Nido, Palawan, Philippines
54. Go to Papua New Guinea to complete visiting all three countries with “New” in the name
55. Visit the colourful fishing port of Djibouti City and sip spiced Yemeni tea in Djibouti
56. Stroll through Belgrade’s bohemian quarter in Serbia
57. Explore an underground wine cave in Moldova
58. Visit North Korea
59. Stay with Bedouins in the desert, listening to ancestral prayers at night
60. Walk a pilgrimage trail barefoot, such as in India or parts of South America
61. Visit Suva with Fafa
62. Visit Bagan temples at dawn in Myanmar
63. Explore under-visited UNESCO World Heritage villages or settlements
64. Trace my ancestry on-site — visit the villages or regions tied to my family history
65. Walk through Versailles during the golden hour
66. Slow boat down the Mekong River from Thailand to Laos
67. Visit Ayers Rock and eat bush tucker in Australia
68. Watch penguins at Phillip Island
69. Visit the Auschwitz Memorial

🇯🇵 Japan

1. Buy an abandoned house in Japan.
2. Stay in Nishiyama Onsen Keiunkan in Yamanashi, recognised by the Guinness World Records as the world’s oldest continuously operating hotel.
3. Explore the Kyoto bamboo forest. 
4. Visit Kyoto during Gion Matsuri.
5. Do the onigiri trail in Japan.
6. Visit Adachi Fish Market in Tokyo and Kii Katsura Fish Market in Kii Katsura.
7. Travel to all of Japan’s 47 prefectures by train.
8. Watch the sunrise at Mt Fuji.
9. Do a Japanese farm stay.
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. Take a themed Hello Kitty Shinkansen
15. Watch an Okinawan Eisa drum dance
16. Watch a Sumo morning practice
17. Attend a Shinto purification ritual
18. Try saké crafting
19. Stay in a traditional Ryokan (Japanese inn) in Hakone
20. Fresh sashimi at the fish markets in Kanazawa, Japan
21. Participate in a Japanese tea ceremony in Japan
22. Taste matcha dessert in Uji
23. Hanami in Japan
24. Soak in a thermal hot spring
25. Take pictures of the Snow Monkey looking zen
26. Omakase in Japan and outside of Japan
27. Meet a geisha
28. Visit an onsen town in Japan
29. Explore Horyu-ji temple in Nara
30. Watch Kabuki theatre
31. Experience a traditional tea ceremony in Kyoto, Japan
32. Eat at Jiro Sushi.
33. Watch the iconic tuna auction at Tsukiji fish market.
34. Visit Kyoto temples during the cherry blossom season
35. Bath in an outdoor onsen
36. See Kyoto autumn leaves
37. Feed the deer in Nara
38. Complete Kumano Kodo Pilgrimage
39. Shibuya Crossing in Tokyo
40. Ride on themed trains in Japan
41. Stay overnight in a Buddhist Temple on Mount Koya
42. Eat Kappo cuisine in Kyoto
43. Drink Amakaze
44. Soak in an Onsen
45. Have Japanese Kaiseki in Japan

🛍️ Market

1. Make a meal entirely from farmers’ market produce
2. Join a night-market cooking shift, helping locals prep food stalls
3. Eat Sannakji at Noryangjin Fish Market in Seoul, South Korea
4. Watch local daily life unfold at a floating market
5. Snack galore in Taipei Night Market
6. Attend a night market and try exotic street snacks in Thailand
7. Hawker Market in Singapore

🏨 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. Do a station stay
6. Stay in an ice hotel
7. Stay in the Four Seasons
8. Stay in one of the most famous hostels in Europe.
9. Stay in a palace-turned-museum hotel, experiencing royalty-inspired service
10. Disconnect in a traditional Hanok village in Bukchon Village
11. Stay in the Feng Shui house, Blue Mansion, in Penang, Malaysia
12. Stay near a sacred spring or shrine, offering visits at dawn
13. Glamping
14. Stay in a beach house
15. Stay on a farm in New Zealand
16. Stay in a ryokan
17. Stay in a hanok and learn Korean tea rituals – South Korea
18. Stay in the Raffles Hotel Singapore
19. Overnight stay in a Kerala backwaters boat
20. Stay at a 5-star hotel
21. 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. Join a pub trivia night
4. Do yoga in the park
5. Go on a street art walking tour
6. See a drag show
7. Gamble in Macau
8. Write a book
9. Visit a pearl farm tour in Broome, Australia
10. Summer swimming in Hampstead Ladies Pond
11. Have a trip planned for me
12. Fly somewhere First Class
13. Celebrate a birthday in Trans Siberian
14. Ghost tour
15. Host a themed costume party
16. Have a bonfire on a beach
17. Do a silent disco
18. Sleep under the open sky on a mountain
19. Trace the path of a famous explorer
20. Plant rice seedlings with farmers
21. Birdwatching at a local reserve
22. Watch a meteor shower
23. Experience 24 hours of daylight in the Arctic
24. Visit a poutine shack with locals in Canada
25. Take part in oyster shucking
26. Visit a lighthouse and climb to the top
27. Find a four-leaf clover and press it into a journal
28. Try a VR gaming arcade
29. Learn to shuffle cards like a casino dealer
30. Learn to say my favourite quote in sign language
31. Try on a white wedding dress
32. Learn to fold fitted sheets properly
33. Do Disco Sauna
34. Buy a well-researched telescope and use it regularly
35. Attend a soul retreat workshop
36. Publish an article in a magazine
37. Make a Yayoi Kusama art travel trail
38. And Haruki Murakami’s travel trail
39. Celebrate New Year’s Eve in Times Square
40. Go on the Sex and the City tour in the USA
41. Visit Crystal Castle in Queensland
42. Travel around the world for an entire year
43. Write a book
44. Trek in the Himalayas
45. Wave to the Statue of Liberty
46. Travel by myself to another country
47. Take a selfie at the Taj Mahal at sunrise
48. Walk across the Golden Gate Bridge
49. Walk on the pink beach in Lombok
50. Visit the Pink Lake in Western Australia
51. Aurora Australis
52. Walk on a glacier
53. See ballet live
54. Watch an outdoor movie screening
55. Selfie in front of the Hollywood sign
56. Roam a medieval castle
57. Take a selfie in front of the seven wonders of the world.
58. Research my family origins.
59. Pay for a stranger’s coffee.
60. Tube down the river in Laos.
61. Do an Ayahuasca retreat in South America.
62. Visit Skye just because Beth of Little Red Tarot used to write her beautiful posts from there.
63. Visit a pearl farm tour in Broome, Australia.
64. Tick off everything on my list of Australia’s iconic foods.
65. Visit Indonesia’s equator city, Pontianak, Kalimantan.
66. Holiday in the Cook Islands.
67. Summer swimming in Hampstead Ladies Pond.
68. See the midnight sun
69. Bushwalk
70. Have a trip planned for me
71. Rode a mechanical bull
72. Build a snowman
73. Keep a pet sheep
74. Compete on Come Dine With Me
75. Publish an article in a magazine
76. Make a Yayoi Kusama art travel trail, and a Haruki Murakami travel trail
77. Walk across the Golden Gate Bridge
78. Take a selfie in front of the seven wonders of the world
79. Research my family origins
80. Compete on Come Dine With Me
81. Visit Skye, just because Beth of Little Red Tarot used to write her beautiful posts from there
82. Tick off everything on my list of Australia’s iconic foods
83. Live in a place where I don’t speak the local language
84. Do a cultural tour of the Country with an Indigenous guide
85. Go to the Melbourne International Film Festival
86. Attend the AFL Grand Final at the MCG
87. Attend Sydney’s Mardi Gras parade
88. Watch cricket at the SCG
89. Travel to a country I can’t pronounce easily
90. Take a year to live somewhere completely new
91. Trace my family tree back five generations
92. Go on a silent retreat
93. Write down my grandparents’ life stories
94. Keep a dream diary for a month
95. Visit Sovereign Hill and pan for gold
96. Attend the Melbourne Cup
97. Watch the Sydney to Hobart yacht race finish
98. Go to the Adelaide Fringe Festival
99. Live in a place where I don’t speak the local language
100. Walk The Camino De Santiago In Spain.
101. Explore Jimbocho, Tokyo’s Booktown.
102. 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.
103. Hike the Pacific Crest Trail (inspired by Cheryl Strayed‘s Wild).
104. Attend Austin Kleon‘s book launch.
105. Take a ski course.
106. Attend Eric Kim’s photography workshop in LA and Lee Chapman’s photowalk in Tokyo.
107. Go camping and add the Tent charm to my bracelet.
108. Take a weekend cruise and add the charm to my El Camino bracelet.
109. Watch a Sumo Wrestle.
110. Visit the Southern Ocean and discover the charm on my El Camino bracelet.
111. Go to the Bahamas just so I can add the Caribbean Sea charm to my El Camino Bracelet.
112. Complete my Onigiri map trail.
113. Celebrate the Oktoberfest in Germany.
114. Savour authentic Sri Lankan cuisine in Sri Lanka and add the charm of the Indian Ocean.
115. Visit Greenland to see a Puffin and a Polar Bear, and add both the Arctic and Atlantic Ocean charms to my El Camino bracelet.
116. Trek to Machu Picchu and add a South American charm to my El Camino bracelet.
117. See Egypt’s pyramids and the Red Sea (and add the charm).
118. Tick off all the things in my ever-growing Australia Bucket List and Japan Travel List.
119. 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.
120. Attend Karpe concert.
121. Visit The Happiness Museum in Denmark, meet Miek Wiking in person and get his author’s signature on one of his books.
122. Sail on the Baltic Sea.
123. Watch the fire-dancing ritual of Nestinarstvo in Strandzha, Bulgaria.
124. Visit a desert and listen to the silence
125. Spend a night in a 24-hour café
126. Learn calligraphy
127. Visit my city’s oldest library
128. Write thank-you letters to teachers who influenced me
129. Invite someone new to lunch.
130. Interview my parents about their childhood
131. Give compliments freely for a week
132. Learn a song to sing for a loved one
133. Collect quirky magnets from everywhere I go
134. Visit a roadside attraction.
135. Lie on the floor listening to vinyl records
136. Buy a toy from my childhood and play with it
137. Explore a historic homestead
138. Fly business class
139. Play lawn bowls
140. Go bowling
141. Watch a sunrise from the highest point
142. Go stargazing at the city’s observatory
143. Go on a road trip with no predetermined destination
144. Take a selfie in front of the Berlin Wall
145. Plant a flower
146. Host a party, a pyjamas and a sleepover party
147. Make new international friends while travelling
148. Visit Disneyland and sleep at a Disney hotel.
149. Write a letter to someone who inspired me
150. Go to the Maid Cafe and the Cat Cafe
151. Walk down Sydney Darling Harbour
152. Show up in PJs for work
153. Migrate to Australia.
154. See the Penguins on Philip Island
155. Stay out all night till the sun comes up.
156. Visit places in Eat, Pray, Love.
157. Take a canal cruise in Amsterdam.
158. White water rafting.
159. Ride an elephant.
160. Search for Nemo and Mola Mola.
161. Vivid Sydney Festival.
162. Attend the Dark Mofo Festival in Tassie.
163. Spend winter in the Alps.
164. Send a postcard from Vatican City.
165. Take a dance class
166. Take a painting class
167. Shoot an AK-47
168. Throw a coin into the Trevi Fountain
169. Visit Coco Chanel’s apartment and Hemingway’s Coffeeshop
170. Great Ocean Road
171. Visit the Colosseum at dawn and eat pasta while in Rome
172. Attend a spicy food competition
173. Pinnacles in Western Australia.
174. Explore Melbourne laneways.
175. Hot Spring in Mornington Peninsula
176. Ride an elephant
177. Walk the historic laneways of Melbourne
178. Celebrate the Holi festival
179. Participate in a local festival
180. Walk barefoot in Squeaky Beach, one of the most beautiful beaches in the world, at Wilsons Promontory National Park
181. Watch a play.
182. Visit the State Library of Victoria.
183. See Kata Tjuta at sunrise.
184. See a show at the Arts Centre Melbourne
185. Attend the Sydney Writers’ Festival
186. Visit the Fremantle Prison.
187. Drink beer at an outback pub.
188. Watch the Sydney New Year’s Eve fireworks.
189. See a show at the Sydney Opera House.
190. Visit MONA in Hobart
191. Go whale watching
192. Witness a proposal
193. See the lavender farm
194. Decorate a Christmas tree
195. Join or start a book club
196. Learn to say “thank you” in 10 different languages
197. Stargazing until I saw a shooting star.
198. Ride a cable car
199. Take a cooking class
200. Throw axe
201. Miss my plane
202. Grow vegetables in the garden and cook a meal with them.
203. Chakra balancing session.
204. Ride a Vespa
205. Greet a local with A-yŏng-ha-se-yo in Korea
206. Walk in a swimsuit on Bondi Beach.
207. Own an original painting
208. Jjimjilbang experience in South Korea
209. Visit all Australian states
210. Read tarot accurately for others
211. Dine on top of the Eiffel Tower
212. Experience a fish spa.
213. Karaoke Party with colleagues.
214. Visit the Sistine Chapel.
215. Camp under the Northern Lights (Aurora Borealis) and the charm on my El Camino bracelet.
216. Soak in the Blue Lagoon.
217. Pet Cafe.
218. Try frog porridge in Geylang, Singapore.
219. Take a nap in a hammock.
220. Watch clouds and name their shapes.
221. Try a different tea every day for a week.
222. Take myself out on a solo date.
223. Getting evacuated from the hotel.
224. Snorkel
225. Skinny dip in the ocean
226. Go on a picnic or two
227. Blow dandelion seeds and make a wish
228. Find a waterfall and stand under it
229. Write a song, even if silly
230. Sleep in a capsule hotel.
232. Attend the Australian Open tennis in Melbourne.
233. Write a thank-you letter to my favourite author.
234. Make a vision board with magazines.
235. Create my own holiday and celebrate it.
236. Host a game night for friends
237. Start a pen-pal exchange.
238. Leave encouraging notes in library books
239. Send flowers anonymously.
240. Tell someone their laugh is wonderful.
241. Go go-kart racing.
242. Go kayaking on Sydney Harbour with the iconic Opera House as a backdrop.
243. Go horseback riding.
244. Photoautomat in Berlin.
245. Make a wish at the Fontana di Trevi, Rome.
246. Participate in the Smoking Ceremony.
247. Send a mail to my future self.
248. Witness Ramadan and Eid celebrations.
249. Join a local meetup for a hobby.
250. Visit Gyeongbokgung Palace.
251. Organise a board game marathon.
252. Walk the trail in the nearest reserve.
253. Sleep in my living room instead of my bed.
254. Spend a day wearing only one colour.
255. Teach someone my favourite childhood game.
256. Learn the story behind a stranger’s tattoo
257. Learn to play an instrument and perform one song
258. Spend New Year’s Eve in a different country
259. Make a time capsule and bury it
260. Whisper a wish into a well
261. Watch an independent film at a small cinema
262. Hunt down the best street food stall
263. Visit a town with a funny name
264. Wear mismatched socks on purpose
265. Complete Melbourne chai crawl
266. Attend a local art opening
267. Attend a poetry slam night
268. Watch a crocodile feeding in Darwin
269. Learn a foreign language
270. Catch a fish
271. Attend a Javanese wedding ceremony
272. Try Balinese kopi luwak coffee in Ubud
273. Be a witness at a wedding
274. Milk a cow
275. Great Wall of China
276. Watch a Javanese dance ceremony
277. Drive an autorickshaw in India
278. Get a matchy couple tattoo to commemorate married life
279. Marry my best friend
280. Habituating Hobbiton in Rotorua, New Zealand
281. Stargazing in the Outback
282. Visit a Chinatown in Sydney, Melbourne, and London
283. Reconnect with an old friend over coffee
284. Mail a postcard to myself from another city
285. Volunteer for a cause that moves me
286. Compliment 10 strangers in one day
287. Create a family recipe book
288. Dance with someone in the kitchen
289. Spend a whole day without my phone
290. Buy a random book from the dollar bin
291. Visit a country during a major festival
292. Take a long, candlelit bubble bath
293. Watch the sunrise without checking my phone
294. Wear pyjamas all day without guilt
295. Visit a shearing shed to see sheep being shorn
296. Do a local food crawl in my own city
297. Take a ferry across Sydney Harbour
298. See humpback whales migrate along the coast
299. Go to the Melbourne International Comedy Festival
300. Watch a live stand-up at a local comedy club
301. See a local pub band play live music
302. Meditate under a tree
303. Sleep with the windows open to the fresh air
304. Ride bumper cars at a fair
305. Enter a silly contest at a local festival
306. Ride in the front seat of a rollercoaster
307. Walk through a funhouse mirror maze
308. Make a zine and leave copies in a café
309. Make my own greeting cards
310. Write a postcard to my future self
311. Hunt down the best dumplings in my city
312. Ride a tuk-tuk through city alleys
313. Learn hand-painting at a batik workshop
314. Take part in a henna painting ceremony
315. Explore ancient cave painting sites
316. Walk through Salzburg’s historic centre
317. Explore the Fitzroy Gardens
318. Walk barefoot across soft grass
319. Start a sketchbook, even if I “can’t draw”
320. Record my laughter and listen back
321. Build something with LEGO as an adult
322. Paint my front door a cheerful colour
323. Start a collection of tiny objects
324. Write a letter to my future self
325. Write my name in the sand (and snow) and wait for the tide
326. Try ice skating
327. Do a random act of kindness anonymously
328. Write a haiku
329. Try to solve a Rubik’s Cube
330. Keep a plant alive for one year
331. Ride a carousel horse with gold reins
332. Enjoy hygge with candles, coffee, and pastries in a cozy café in Denmark
333. Join a coffee ceremony and taste injera with spicy stews – Ethiopia
334. Witness a traditional kava ceremony in a village gathering in Fiji
335. Relax in a lakeside sauna, then dip in the icy waters of Finland
336. Picnic with a baguette, cheese, and wine under the Eiffel Tower in France
337. Stroll through whitewashed villages and hear bouzouki music in Greece
338. Watch a wayang kulit shadow puppet performance in Indonesia
339. Ride a gondola and listen to opera in Venice
340. Try an escape room.
341. Selfie in front of Platform 9 3/4
342. See lion dances at the Lunar New Year in Singapore
343. Visit the gardens of Schönbrunn Palace in Austria
344. Stroll through a desert souq and watch falconry
345. Buy flowers for myself
346. Take a day off to wander without a plan.
347. Try fortune-telling with a deck of playing cards
348. Take a road trip with no destination
349. Spend a rainy day in pyjamas watching movies
350. Take a train across an entire country
351. Write a love letter to myself and hide it in a book
352. Jump into a pile of autumn leaves like a kid
353. Blow soap bubbles in the park just because
354. Keep a “happiness jar”
355. Experience ancient salt-mining rituals, explore Kraków Old Town and eat pierogi in Poland
356. Live a happy and fulfilling life

🍲 Food

1. Make traditional luau dishes
2. Eat a Camel burger
3. Tick off everything on my list of Australia’s iconic foods
4. Visit Jeonju and help make kimchi in a home kitchen
5. Street food in Chengdu, China
6. Taste flying fish and macaroni pie at Oistins Fish Fry – Barbados
7. Sip green tea and share naan bread in a traditional chaikhana – Afghanistan
8. Visit the Manama Souq and try Arabic coffee with dates – Bahrain
9. Explore Bogotá’s street art and eat bandeja paisa in Colombia
10. Collect fortunes from fortune cookies
11. Learn to prepare ceviche
12. Join a reenacted Viking feast
13. Learn to make tamales for a fiesta
14. Forage edible wild plants with herbalists, then taste local herbal teas
15. Host a cultural dinner night with friends
16. Taste every flavour of ice cream at my local shop
17. Learn to make my Atta’s best recipe
18. Buy candy from a store I loved as a kid
19. Join a samovar tea party in Russia
20. Learn to make Moroccan couscous with a local family in Morocco
21. Explore a Yoruba bead-making workshop in Nigeria
22. Learn to ferment fish with Indigenous Alaskans in the USA (Alaska)
23. Eat fruit straight from the tree in an orchard.
24. Eat goose intestine sausage in Germany.
25. Taste laplap and watch kastom dances in Vanuatu
26. Try Sheep’s head, roasted or boiled whole in Norway
27. Eat Witchetty grubs, large edible larvae – Australia (Aboriginal bush food)
28. Try Shirako (fish sperm sacs) and tuna eyeballs, boiled or steamed in Japan.
29. Eat at a rotating rooftop restaurant
30. Host a “midnight snack” picnic
31. Try eating breakfast at midnight in a diner.
32. Make my own jam and give it as a gift.
33. Eat pizza in its birthplace in Naples.
34. Try a cooking class in a cuisine I know nothing about.
35. Bake bread in a clay oven
36. Share a favourite recipe with a stranger
37. Go foraging for truffles
38. Do a progressive dinner with each course at a different spot
39. Host a themed dinner party at home.
40. Do a blindfolded dining experience.
41. Brew my own beer or cider at a local brewery.
42. Do a dessert-only dinner.
43. Create a signature cocktail with a bartender.
44. Try a hot wing or chilli-eating challenge.
45. Have a picnic in the most iconic park.
46. Go to a pop-up dinner or supper club.
47. Book a private chef for a night.
48. Try an extravagant tasting menu.
49. Try Sapporo miso ramen.
50. Eat at a 24-hour diner.
51. Dining in the dark.
52. Eat at Vue De Monde
53. Bake a birthday cake.
54. Do a barista course.
55. Try Andean chicha corn beer
56. Eat Pedro’s mom’s feijoada — Brazil
57. Celebrate Oktoberfest with beer, pretzels, and lederhosen — Germany
58. Learn to cook paella at the seaside
59. Learn to prepare ceviche
60. Try hotpot in Chengdu
61. Brew karkadeh (hibiscus tea)
62. Have a picnic by candlelight.
63. Camel Burger.
64. Visit a Bavarian bakery
65. Eat Akutaq, Eskimo ice cream of fat, berries, and snow – Alaska, USA.
66. Share biryani at a bustling bazaar during Eid — Pakistan
67. Eat camel milk yogurt — Middle East / Africa
68. Sip port wine in Porto
69. Eat ceviche at a bustling market in Quito, Ecuador
70. Learn to cook adobo
71. Join a grape stomp during harvest
72. Document family recipes from elders, then cook and share them with descendants
73. Drive fish traps or gather in traditional fishing communities at dawn
74. Host an international potluck, sharing meals and stories from across cultures
75. Harvest medicinal forest plantings with forest guardians, under moonlight
76. Harvest salt the old way with salt pan communities, working under the sun
77. Learn to bake bread in a communal wood-fired oven, as done in Mediterranean villages
78. Help with cheese-making or tea harvesting in rural farm cooperatives
79. Cook in a nomadic family’s turf tent stove, learning open-fire cooking
80. Harvest spices or coffee beans early in the morning, followed by processing
81. Participate in an urban rooftop garden harvest and communal meal
82. Prepare and eat a full ritual feast with a religious or cultural community
83. Volunteer at a monastery garden or orchard, learning spiritual perspectives on food
84. Hunt edible wild mushrooms or nuts with foragers, camping overnight in forest huts
85. Eat pawpaw with chilli in Africa
86. Eat Gooseneck barnacles in Portugal
87. Try fermented locusts in Africa / the Middle East
88. Eat yak cheese, aged or fermented in Tibet / Nepal
89. Eat blood pancakes
90. Eat an egg soup
91. Eat pho at a street stall in Hanoi on a rainy day.
92. Eat Sweetbreads
93. Eat jollof rice
94. Learn to make Lithuanian rye bread in Lithuania
95. Collect 10 handwritten beloved recipes
96. Learn to cook adobo
97. Eat seagull eggs, fried or boiled, in Arctic regions.
98. Join a camel caravan, and taste spiced Somali tea.
99. Sip tea and share stories in a traditional teahouse – Iran.
100. Walk through bustling bazaars and enjoy kebab feasts – Iraq.
101. Drink Guinness at a pub in Ireland.
102. Host a costume dinner party.
103. Host a “weird food combination” dinner
104. Try cooking a dish from every continent
105. Try new cuisines — I’m thinking Lao, Afghan, Mauritian, Bhutan and…
106. Eat Hokkaido Snow Crab in Sapporo
107. Taste chocolate in a Brussels chocolaterie in Belgium
108. Eat a South Indian thali in Chennai, India
109. Taste lavender ice cream in Furano
110. Drink Trappist beer brewed by monks in a centuries-old abbey in Belgium
111. Drink Kopi Luwak
112. Make cookies from scratch.
113. Master a favourite easy-to-cook meal: Rassam
114. Taste cheese from five different countries (the Netherlands, France, Switzerland, Australia and Austria)
115. Make and eat Onsen Tamago aka Hot Spring Egg.
116. Eat French food outside of France.
117. Try pickled herring with onions.
118. Eat breakfast outside on a weekday.
119. Eat pickled century egg in China.
120. Taste dim sum and wonton noodles in Hong Kong.
121. Have breakfast in bed and stay in bed.
123. Have a coffee at Hemingway’s regular coffee shop.
124. Do the Dumpling Crawl in Melbourne with a friend.
125. Try Belgian waffles in Brussels
126. Explore Budapest baths and eat chimney cake in Hungary.
127. Eat fresh grilled octopus in Santorini.
128. Bottomless brunch with girlfriends
129. Traditional cooking class in Chiang Mai, Thailand
130. Teppanyaki restaurant in Tokyo.
131. Korean BBQ House in South Korea.
132. Freshly made dim sum in a traditional tea house in Hong Kong
133. Egg Coffee in the Old Quarter of Hanoi, Vietnam
134. Night market hopping in Taipei for stinky tofu and bubble tea
135. Visit the canals of Bruges and eat Belgian waffles
136. List down the top three best Banh Mi places in Melbourne (Tan Thanh Loi, Nhu Lan Bakery, and Banh Mi Stand).
137. Eat Fugu – and not die.
138. Try Balut, a Filipino delicacy.
139. Drink Pilsner in a traditional beer hall in the Czech Republic.
140. Eat Surströmming, fermented Baltic herring – Sweden.
141. Eat Hákarl, fermented shark meat in Iceland.
142. Savour hawker food
143. Eat Sacher Torte in Vienna.
144. Eat Durian and successfully convince others to try Durian.
145. Eat Belgian chocolate in Belgium.
146. Eat Hyderabad biryani in India.
147. Drink Umeshu in Wakayama.
148. Enjoy Yakitori at the Japan Summer Festival.
149. Try Kobe beef in Kobe.
150. And try Tonkatsu in Tokyo.
151. Eat pierogi in Kraków, Poland.
152. Try Unagi don in Hamamatsu, Japan.
153. Eat foie gras in France.
154. Try bird’s nest soup, made from edible nests.
155. Try crocodile meat, grilled or stewed.
156. Try Pho in Ho Chi Minh City.
157. Try eating only local food for a day
158. Make a dish with only five ingredients.
159. Cook from a handwritten recipe.
160. Eat at a restaurant with no menu (chef’s choice).
161. Eat with chopsticks at every meal in a single day.
162. Eat something I grew myself.
163. Eat food truck food.
164. Have a drink at a proper wine bar.
165. Eat Happy Pizza in Cambodia.
166. Eat white pepper crab in Singapore.
167. Eat at Sushi Train and Cheese Train restaurants.
168. Eat fried frog legs, a French delicacy.
169. Eat Lutefisk, dried and lye-treated fish in Norway.
170. Eat sea urchin (Uni).
171. Eat fondue in a chalet in Switzerland.
172. Eat at a Michelin-starred food court and restaurant.
173. Eat a food I don’t know the name of.
174. Visit a food truck in my city.
175. Eat Possum.
176. Sip ale in a centuries-old pub.
177. Learn to make sushi.
178. Try Wagyu sukiyaki.
179. Eat yudofu.
180. Eat dessert before dinner
181. Try fried jellyfish – China
182. Eat Arctic Char
183. Eat smørrebrød in Copenhagen, Denmark
184. Eat chicken feet in a Yum Cha.
185. Try fermented soybean (Natto) – Japan.
186. Eat fermented fish sauce, a Southeast Asian delicacy
187. Eat snake soup.
188. Try sea cucumber.
189. Walk through the historic centre of Prague and eat goulash.
190. Taste the spiciest food I dare.
191. Visit a food festival and sample everything.
192. Savour a croissant in a Parisian café and drink espresso at a Roman café.
193. Eat schnitzel in Vienna.
194. Try a food I once swore I never would.

🧗 Adventures

1. Earn the Dual Pilgrim badge
2. Trek in the Himalayas
3. Tube down the river in Laos
4. Ride a mechanical bull
5. Build a snowman
6. Buy a well-researched telescope and use it regularly
7. See Aurora Australis
8. Pay for a stranger’s coffee
9. Keep a pet sheep
10. Ha Giang Loop in Vietnam
11. Everest Base Camp in Nepal
12. Sunrise over Mount Bromo in Indonesia
13. Search for Snow Leopards in the high altitudes of Ladakh, India
14. Sardine run in Moalboal, Philippines.
15. Hike the “Great Wall” dupe (O Quy Ho Pass) in Sapa, Vietnam
16. World’s largest cave (Son Doong) in Vietnam
17. Sandboarding in the dunes of Mui Ne or Ilocos Norte
18. See wild Orangutans in the rainforests of Borneo
19. Walk through the Cloud Forest at Gardens by the Bay, Singapore
20. Swim in the turquoise lagoons of Coron, Philippines
21. Island hopping in El Nido, Palawan
22. Relax in the “slow villages” of Sidemen, Bali
23. Visit the “Hawaii of Japan”, Okinawa
24. Overnight cruise in Ha Long Bay, Vietnam
25. Surf in Siargao, Philippines
26. Stay in an overwater villa in the Maldives.
27. Raja Ampat islands in Indonesia
28. Visit Phu Quoc Island for the world’s longest cable car ride
29. Tea plantations of Nuwara Eliya, Sri Lanka.
30. See all the iconic Australian Big Things
31. Run the London Marathon
32. Attend Running of the Bulls in Pamplona, Spain
33. Cross a suspension bridge without looking down
34. Camp overnight in the nearest nature area
35. Swim in my city’s natural swimming spot
36. Spend a night in a treehouse
37. Go indoor skydiving
38. Do zip-lining.
39. Go indoor rock climbing and outdoor rock climbing.
40. Do a city scavenger hunt.
41. Do a Segway or e-scooter tour
42. Rent a jet ski at a local lake.
43. Swim in two oceans in one day
44. Be a tourist in my own city for a day with maps, cheesy photos, and souvenir shopping
45. Join a night safari with indigenous rangers in Borneo
46. Join a husky sled expedition with the Sami people in Lapland, Finland
47. Join a community rebuilding project after natural disasters, learning solidarity traditions
48. Attend a regional wrestling or folk sports event, or train with athletes
49. Harvest or plant community fields
50. Sleep at the festival grounds during harvest festivals, as part of preparations
51. Participate in planting or ploughing ceremonies at spring festivals
52. Help herders or shepherds move livestock seasonally, following transhumance routes
53. Stay with families building traditional earthen or stone homes, participating in the build
54. Participate in desert dune taming or oasis gardening to learn survival agriculture
55. Participate in a sweat lodge, temazcal, or purification ritual guided by local elders
56. Join a spiritual healing circle or healing drumming session with local practitioners
57. Observe or assist in a ritual fish release at a temple or monastery (merit-making practice)
58. Write prayers or wishes on temple flags
59. Explore a ghost town.
60. Walk across an entire city in a day
61. Visit Katherine Gorge
62. Watch the crocodile race at Berry Springs Tavern & swim in Berry Creek
63. Visit Fogg Dam
64. Visit 22 of Australia’s Big Things
65. Go on an Antarctica expedition
66. Do the Polar Plunge
67. See ancient stromatolites in WA
68. Walk the Bondi to Coogee coastal track
69. Hang in Costa Rica and add the charm to my El Camino bracelet
70. Try sleeping under the stars without a tent
71. Get lost in a corn maze
72. Ride in a submarine
73. Watch the sunrise from the highest place in the city
74. Ride in a hot air balloon
75. Memorise the constellations of the night sky
76. Build a fort out of blankets
77. Make origami animals and leave them in public places
78. Swim with bioluminescent plankton
79. Watch a solar eclipse in totality
80. Make snow angels (or sand angels)
81. Visit the oldest tree in my area
82. Spend time in a cabin without electricity
83. Swim in a hidden lake
84. Take a train just for the scenery
85. Hike to the top of a volcano
86. Hike Mount Bromo
87. Spend a full day shadowing a local family, from market to meal to chores

🚆 Train & Transport

1. Take the Sri Lanka Coastal Line train
2. Ride on the Maharaja Express and The Ghan.
3. Ride the Suite Class Compartment from Jakarta to Surabaya
4. Take the Taksaka Luxury Train from Jakarta to Yogyakarta
5. Ride the KAI Panoramic Train for scenic views across Java
6. Take an overnight journey on the Brawijaya Train from Jakarta to Malang
7. Ride a historic steam train through heritage routes, such as the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway or the Jacobite in Scotland
8. Take the Eurostar under the English Channel
9. Ride the Orient Express
10. Experience the Seven Stars Kyushu luxury train
11. Cross the USA coast-to-coast by train
12. Ride the Venice Simplon-Orient-Express in Europe
13. Experience the Blue Train in South Africa
14. Travel on the Eastern and Oriental Express from Singapore to Thailand
15. Journey on the Golden Eagle Trans-Siberian Express across Russia, Mongolia, and China
16. Ride the Indian Pacific in Australia
17. Take the Jacobite Steam Train (“Harry Potter train”) in Scotland
18. Ride the Renfe Cercanías commuter train — Spain
19. Travel on the Thalys — France–Belgium–Netherlands–Germany
20. Journey on the Glacier Express in Switzerland
21. Experience the Bernina Express from Switzerland to Italy
22. Take the Flam Railway in Norway
23. Travel on the Danube Express in Eastern Europe
24. Complete the Trans-Siberian Railway from Moscow to Vladivostok
25. Travel the Balkan Flexipass route
26. Take the Arctic Circle Train (Sweden–Norway)
27. Try an overnight sleeper train in Europe
28. Stay overnight in a train-turned-hotel in Sweden (Train Hostel)
29. Ride a Christmas market train in Germany
30. Try a wine-tasting train in California, USA
31. Take a chocolate train in Switzerland
32. Ride a steam-powered heritage train in Wales
33. Take a train across the Sahara Desert (iron ore train) in Mauritania
34. Ride the Cass Scenic Railroad in the USA
35. Take a Lego-themed train in Denmark
36. Ride a murder mystery dinner train
37. Travel on an overnight couchette in Eastern Europe
38. Take a desert train through the Outback in Australia
39. Ride the Tren de la Costa, Train to the Clouds, and cross the Andes from Chile to Argentina
40. Ride the Lapland Santa Claus Express (Finland)
41. Take the TranzAlpine across the South Island — New Zealand
42. Take the Bergen Line — Norway
43. Ride the Al Andalus Train — Spain
44. Take a cross-continental train ride.
45. Travel on the Alaska Railroad to Denali
46. Ride the El Chepe through Mexico’s canyons
47. Travel by train to Lhasa (Tibet)
48. Ride across Eastern Europe with an Interrail pass
49. Take the Indian Golden Triangle circuit by train
50. Travel to Istanbul on the Bosphorus Express
51. Ride across Australia’s Nullarbor Plain
52. Take the Silk Road high-speed trains (China–Kazakhstan)
53. Travel to Scotland on the London Caledonian Sleeper
54. Ride the “slow TV” train through Norway (Bergen to Oslo, filmed)
55. Travel on a sleeper train
56. Ride the regional train from Taiwan to Hualien.
57. Ride the City Circle Tram in Melbourne.
58. Ride a tram to St Kilda.
59. Paddle steamer on the Murray River.
60. Ride on the London double-decker bus.
61. Ride Euro Rail.
62. Experience the Whoosh High-Speed Railway between Jakarta and Bandung
63. Take the Puffing Billy steam railway.
64. Ride Japan’s Shinkansen “bullet train”.
65. Travel on Korea’s KTX train.