Monday, August 20, 2018

50 by 50 - Our WIP Bucket list ...incomplete !!


1. The Great Wall of China - The 7m-high and 7m-thick fortification takes at least a day to walk between its battlements, shunning hawkers and tourists for less-visited sections where you clamber up unrestored stairs and through crumbling towers.

2. Siq To Petra Jordan - The rock-carved Nabataean city of Jordan with its century old ornate facades and classical architecture.

3. Whitsundays Island of Australia - The 1930 resort in this island has whale watching in the Antarctic. It is the most beautiful turquoise and green merge of the coastal Queensland.

4. Cherry Blossom Japan - The sakura- zensen in the Kiyomizu-tera in Kyoto, Tokyo’s Ueno Park or the castles in Osaka or Himeji, all of which are lent a dreamlike air by the arrival of the blossom each spring.

5. Galapagos Island Ecuador - The giant tortoises, canoodling waved albatrosses, lumbering land iguanas and Darwin’s finches, to name but a few – each a key player in the world’s most celebrated workshop of evolution.

6. Scotland - The Single Malt taste of the century old barrels.

7. Faroe Islands - 300kms from Scotland the sight of the Puffins in the North Atlantic weather.

8. Italy - There is no reason to miss the Roman Holiday, Pompeii.

9. Myanmar - Every year between November and March, barefoot pilgrims flock to Kyaiktiyo – the Golden Rock – high in the Eastern Yoma mountains. Sometime in life I would want to find my roots. Shwedagon Pagoda .

10. New Zealand - Because we are neighbours and it is beautiful. The South Islands and North Islands

11. Spain - For the Merida, Barcelona, Basilica and Don Quixote. The places like Portugal, Morocco, Gibraltar and Ibiza.

12. Spanish Archipelagos - The Balearic Islands and the Canary Islands.

13. Luang Prabang Laos - The monasteries of Laos. A tiny mountain kingdom for more than a thousand years and designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1995, Luang Prabang is endowed with a legacy of ancient red-roofed temples and French-Indochinese architecture, not to mention some of the country’s most refined cuisine, its richest culture and its most sacred Buddha image, the Pha Bang.

14. Gili (Trawangan,Meno and Air) Indonesia - The pure white-sand beaches framed against the warm turquoise waters.

15. Great Barrier Reef, Australia - The seven wonders of the natural world spreading across 3000kms. It is almost parallel to the Queensland coast, from near the southern coastal town of Bundaberg, up past the northern tip of Cape York.

16. Machupicchu, PeruInca city of Machupicchu is the long-anticipated high-point of their trip. 20th Century best-known archaeological site on the continent.

17. Angkor Wat, Cambodia - 12th century  Hindu temple and Siem Reap and Cambodia

18. Dubai - Dune Bashing, Abu DHabi - Great Mosque, Russel Khaima, Food Trail, Dubai Mall - fountain. Fly Emirates A380.

19. Sri Lanka - Paradise of Great food. Re-visit.

20. Leh Ladakh IndiaGar firdaus bar-rue zamin ast, hami asto, hamin asto,hamin ast

21. Rajasthan India - Go crazy for colours.

22. Madhya Pradesh India - Khajuraho, Gwalior, Panchmari, Mandu, Bhedaghat, Maheshwar, Rathlam, Itarshi, Chambal.

23. Croatia  -  The Dubrovnik Old Town is a medieval landscape where all the buildings were erected over 500 years ago and are designed in the Roman, Gothic and Baroque architectural styles. Plitvice Lake, Hvar Island and Rovinj. Listen to the Sea Organ in Zadar.

24. Nordic Denmark ( South Funen Archipelago of Funen, stay in Typical house on Lyø,  Shakespheare's Kronborg castle, Copenhagen-North Zealand, Roskilde, Pearl of the Baltic - Bornholm, Trelleborg Viking Fortress), Finland ( Helsinki, St. Petersburg, Leningrad, Epsoo, Ikea), Northern Lights - Iceland, Norway ( Atlantic Ocean Road), and Sweden

25. Istanbul  - Turkey, Capadocia, Black Sea - Bosphorus, Hagia Sophia, Taksim, Levent, Grand Bazaar, Mahamuttpasha Bazaar.

26. Azerbaijan - Caspian Sea, Armenia, BTAK Railways to Turkey, Baku, Kazakhstan. 

27. Uluru (Ayres Rock), Australia - Just see the world's largest sandstone mass 450kms from Alice springs.

28. Bali, Borobodur Indonasia - World Largest Buddhist Stupa which is ten stories high and measures over 120 meters (400 feet) per side. 

29. Tasmania - For the Cruise and the Lavenders.

30. Great Australian Bight Nullarbor Plain is the home of  camels, wombats and mobs of kangaroos, or pull off to spot southern right whales from the magnificent Bunda Cliffs.

31. Western Australia - Waves Rock, Bungle Bungle Range, the weird geological curiosities called Pinnacles,  bubble-gum pink lake Hillier on the Recherche Archipelago, Kimberley rocks, Super Pit gold mine of Kalgoorlie, is the biggest open cast mine in Australia, Treetop walkway - Albany, 

32.  Czech Republic - Prague, Karlsbad, Czech Palace, Jankov, Bohemian Paradise, lbe Sandstone Mountains, Prague Jewish Museum, Karlstejn Castle is a large Gothic-style castle from the mid-14th century. 

33. Italy -  The endless list of everything which we will do in a career break.

34. Central Europe - Austria (Salzburg, Innsbruck, Graz, Durnstein, Villach thermal bath) . Germany ( Berlin, Cologne, Munich, Dresden, Stuttgart, Dusseldorf, Saxon), Hungary ( Budapest, Denube, Balaton), Slovania ( Triglav National Park, Bled, Kopar), Poland (Warsaw, Nightlife, Wroclaw)

35. Dublin - Trinity College - Book of Kells, Guinness Pub Crawl, 

36. South India -  Temple tour, Beaches, Goa, the green belt.

37. Coastline Australia - Melbourne to Sydney to Brisbane to Gold Coast.

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