My Travel Bucket List

For a lot us, am sure, traveling is a means of exploring ourselves, perhaps in different ambient conditions. If you’re reading this, you’re probably ready to make your own bucket list. The spirit of good a bucket list is in trying to achieve goals, to overcome reservations, to feel completely new over & again, to evolve or to simply have fun. In aiming to achieve such goals, one may require a trek in the Himalayas or perhaps something as simple as quality time with one’s near & dear. I personally feel a bucket list helps put things in perspective. If we are able to achieve even a couple amongst the many things we’ve aimed for, it is still worth all the trouble. Hence I’ve decided to create a small travel destination list in an attempt to be clear of all the places I want to see and experience before I become invalid. I want to feel the universe in motion around me and I want to experience it in these places.

Tsomgo Lake, Natula Pass, Tibet

1.      Tibet.

I want to experience the reverberation of chants in a hilltop monastery, especially in Tibet. I’ve seen some excerpts on the telly, but I yearn to feel it first hand. There seems to be something very mystical and astoundingly simple about it all. I’d like to go there & unlearn everything and begin anew.

2.      Paris, France

I want to spend some time contemplating in Louvre, in front of masterpieces created by some of the world’s geniuses. I want to take in all the details and expressions made by these masters in their works of art and hopefully be inspired to create my own masterpiece sometime.

3.      Kenya, Africa

One of my most ardent wishes is to be able to go on an African safari. See the animals up-close, to feel the heat & dirt stick to me. Want to see the place that still perhaps retains some characteristics to the prehistoric world.

4.      Anchorage, Alaska

They say that the Northern lights, is a phenomenon that has not found the right description in words. Well, I’d like to be one amongst the many who have not been able to describe it.

5.      Orlando, US of A

Disneyworld! For one who has been forever fascinated with animated movies, I bet this is the place to be. Want to see all the theme parks, meet all my animated cartoon friends, terrify myself to passing out at the end of all the rides. I think I’d most definitely feel the universe in motion around me here!

6.      Gangtok, India

North-eastern India is full of lush greenery and boasts of some of the most amazing sights in the world. Much of it is commercialized but still more remains unexplored. I wan to see the sun rise amidst the hills in Gangtok.

Gangtok, Sikkim

7.      Jaipur, India

Jaipur & Udaipur are homes to some of the royals in India. Few of the palaces have been made into hotels and some still have the royals residing in them. This desert state of Rajasthan has very colorful clothes, hospitable people and an exquisite cuisine. Waiting for the royal experience.

8.      Athens, Greece.

Authentic tzatziki and baba ghanoush! That’s perhaps all I want in Greece.

9.      New Zealand.

All of it. Want to see and experience all of New Zealand. Almost everybody I know who visited New Zealand has come back speechless. When I saw the photographs taken there, I sort of understood their loss for words.

Milford Sound

10.  Switzerland

Yup..why not?? Ski and play around in the snow covered alps of Switzerland and experience their famous hospitality, especially through their chocolates & cheese.

Lucerne, Swiss

So then, these are just a few of the many places I want to see. The objective of travel may be many, but we must also learn to travel for travel’s sake. Every thing and every experience that comes with it, is but a by-product of the circumstances around us and also of our understanding of it. This list may seem very usual and perhaps not so ‘out-of-the-box’. Now that is perhaps because I am still endeavoring to explore everything inside it in the first place and am quite sure I have company! Tolstoy said “if you want to be happy, be!” We at Travelendura say “if you want to travel, by golly, travel!”

Happy exploring!