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What's Your Travel Bucket List??

  • 11-04-2011 12:13am
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 793 ✭✭✭supermouse


    What would be your top 10? We're holding travel nights at work over the course of the year all based on our travel Bucket List but they're so hard to compile!! After days of thought i have the following(in no particular order):

    1) Great Wall and Terracotta Army China
    2) Wildlife Trail Canada and Niagra Falls
    3) Golden Triangle India
    4) New Orleans Mardi Gras & Rio Carnival
    5) Inca Trail
    6) Anchorage, Alaska
    7) Amazon
    8) Big 5 safari in Eastern Africa
    9) Windsurfing in Madagascar
    10) Cuba


    Still not 100% sure though..... I keep adding and removing things...

    Now, you?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,542 ✭✭✭Captain Darling


    Berlin is the next place i want to go.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 92 ✭✭Numb.Muzik


    1) Achill
    2) Ballybunion


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 406 ✭✭FesterBeatty


    To take some Marlocks from Himalayan boys


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,595 ✭✭✭bonerm


    supermouse wrote: »
    What would be your top 10? We're holding travel nights at work over the course of the year all based on our travel Bucket List but they're so hard to compile!! After days of thought i have the following(in no particular order):

    1) Great Wall and Terracotta Army China
    2) Wildlife Trail Canada and Niagra Falls
    3) Golden Triangle India
    4) New Orleans Mardi Gras & Rio Carnival
    5) Inca Trail
    6) Anchorage, Alaska
    7) Amazon
    8) Big 5 safari in Eastern Africa
    9) Windsurfing in Madagascar
    10) Cuba


    Still not 100% sure though..... I keep adding and removing things...

    Now, you?

    I'd cross off number 7 right now. It's just a big warehouse.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,128 ✭✭✭✭Oranage2


    - Drive from europe to south africa
    - Train from europe to china
    - attempt Everest


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  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,548 Mod ✭✭✭✭Amirani


    1. Sydney, Australia.
    2. San Francisco, USA.
    3. Havana, Cuba.
    4. Great Wall, China
    5. Calcutta, India.
    6. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
    7. Cape Town, South Africa.
    8. Antarctica.
    9. Pamplona, Spain.
    10. Dubai, United Arab Emirates.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,778 ✭✭✭Pauleta


    I dont really want to go anywhere. Everywhere else is a kip but i would like to go to Germany and Cancun. Thats about it though.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 793 ✭✭✭supermouse


    Pauleta wrote: »
    I dont really want to go anywhere. Everywhere else is a kip but i would like to go to Germany and Cancun. Thats about it though.

    Cancun is a dive ! :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,341 ✭✭✭El Horseboxo


    Cancún is a great place to drink for cheap and ride for cheaper.

    I been everywhere on OP's list but not for the Mardis Gras, Carnival or wind surfing.. It's Europe that i've completely neglected so i suppose i'd add driving around every country.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 23,316 ✭✭✭✭amacachi


    Seoul and Tokyo. Also want to fly somewhere first class on an A380.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17,689 ✭✭✭✭OutlawPete


    ... ;)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 941 ✭✭✭Ciderswigger


    Iceland
    Dubai
    Rio
    New Zealand. I was there for 6 hours before my holiday was cut short. :mad:

    And if I could only go to one of my places it'd be Iceland. Would love to see the Northern Lights from there. Though it will be more like from an island north of Scotland the way I'm saving! :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,854 ✭✭✭Sinfonia


    1) Pretty much the entirety of North America
    2) Iceland
    3) Some mad place like Easter Island
    4) Actually, I think I'd like to go to as many places as I can, and I really haven't made a dent in the list, realistically

    I'm sad now :(


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 941 ✭✭✭Ciderswigger


    Sinfonia wrote: »
    1) Pretty much the entirety of North America
    2) Iceland
    3) Some mad place like Easter Island
    4) Actually, I think I'd like to go to as many places as I can, and I really haven't made a dent in the list, realistically

    I'm sad now :(

    Wanna come to Iceland? :D
    I'm sad now too.... sigh!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,900 ✭✭✭General General


    Greenland

    Svalbard

    Nunavut

    Iceland

    to be continued...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,245 ✭✭✭psycho-hope


    New Zealand
    Russia
    More of Italy
    South America
    Japan
    Jordan( specifically Petra)
    The Pyramids
    America
    Canada
    More of Scotland


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,872 ✭✭✭strobe


    There is this place, might be Chile or something, but probably not. Anyways, there is this big cave there, goes down for miles, full of bats, as caves tend to be, but that's not really relevant, I don't know why I mentioned it. Well if you go down far enough you get to this part of it that is about a kilometer long and it is full of crystals. Big huge walls of them. Some flat like massive glaciers, some shaped sort of like huge symmetrical snowflakes, others just random protrusions of crystalline oddness. They are all different colours, partially because of the varying junk they are made of and partly because the innate structure of them reflects and refracts light in weird ass ways, like a bunch of glass prisms surrounded by mirrors.

    I'd like to see that. Go there, smoke a lot of weed, maybe drop a couple of pills and just walk through it for a while. I think that would be nice.

    Ohh, and Montreal. I hear Montreal is pleasant.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,565 ✭✭✭southsiderosie


    1) Great Wall of China
    2) Machu Picchu
    3) California Redwood forests
    4) Sahara Desert
    5) India (for at least a month)
    6) At least one West African music festival
    7) Cuba
    8) Amalfi Coast
    9) Camino de Santiago
    10) Mekong River trip from China all the way down


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,864 ✭✭✭Daegerty


    Well

    I have to drive to the Co-op to buy the fecking bucket first.. after that I'll make another trip to Craggy


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22,048 ✭✭✭✭Snowie


    supermouse wrote: »
    What would be your top 10? We're holding travel nights at work over the course of the year all based on our travel Bucket List but they're so hard to compile!! After days of thought i have the following(in no particular order):

    1) Great Wall and Terracotta Army China
    2) Wildlife Trail Canada and Niagra Falls
    3) Golden Triangle India
    4) New Orleans Mardi Gras & Rio Carnival
    5) Inca Trail
    6) Anchorage, Alaska
    7) Amazon
    8) Big 5 safari in Eastern Africa
    9) Windsurfing in Madagascar
    10) Cuba


    Still not 100% sure though..... I keep adding and removing things...

    Now, you?


    nahhhhhhhhhhhhh

    You dont wanna got to madagascar windsurfing, your better of going cape verde :) far more superior windsurfing conditions tho

    castle gregory in kerry can be awesome :pac:


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 793 ✭✭✭supermouse


    I think i want to go to Madagascar because its one of those destinations where very few people have been... i have never in my life been windsurfing but when i start, im gonna start in Madagascar!! :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,885 ✭✭✭PomBear


    1. Sealand
    2. Cuba
    3. Nepal
    4. Australia
    5. Thailand
    6. South America (Ché Guevara's Motorcycle route)
    7. Japan


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22,048 ✭✭✭✭Snowie


    supermouse wrote: »
    I think i want to go to Madagascar because its one of those destinations where very few people have been... i have never in my life been windsurfing but when i start, im gonna start in Madagascar!! :D



    So are you like one of these people that use's exclamation marks to get the message across!!!!!!! :p

    I recon it could be quite nice they have big turtles there and some pretty strange fish!!!!!

    I'll tell you one thing I wouldn't let you any were near my windsurfing board with stilettos :mad: the damage would well i dont wanna think about it...

    :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 128 ✭✭Demosthenes


    China and pretty much all of S.E Asia
    Inca trails
    New Zealand
    Vanuatu
    Tokyo
    all over the Caribbean


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,583 ✭✭✭cloneslad


    amacachi wrote: »
    Seoul and Tokyo. Also want to fly somewhere first class on an A380.


    done, done and done.

    The A380 is awesome to fly on. Though I can only imagine just how great it could have been had I not been in economy.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 793 ✭✭✭supermouse


    So are you like one of these people that use's exclamation marks to get the message across!!!!!!! :p

    I recon it could be quite nice they have big turtles there and some pretty strange fish!!!!!

    I'll tell you one thing I wouldn't let you any were near my windsurfing board with stilettos :mad: the damage would well i dont wanna think about it...

    :pac:

    Mmmmm..... not that I'm aware of actually!!!! Although I do use a lot of full stops.... wonder are they linked!?!?!!! ..... ((oh look at that, even some question marks, think I may need to sit down for the shock!!!)) :D

    I reckon stilletos and surfboards would look awesome.... Surely if I can balance on land I can balance on water... Clearly similar surfaces!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,583 ✭✭✭cloneslad


    1) Great Wall of China
    2) Machu Picchu
    3) California Redwood forests
    4) Sahara Desert
    5) India (for at least a month)
    6) At least one West African music festival
    7) Cuba
    8) Amalfi Coast
    9) Camino de Santiago
    10) Mekong River trip from China all the way down

    I'm in India now....hell hole of a place, though I'm confined to staying in the cities so I can't talk about the mountain areas. The Taj is unlike anything I have ever seen, pictures do not do that place justice at all.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 793 ✭✭✭supermouse


    cloneslad wrote: »
    I'm in India now....hell hole of a place, though I'm confined to staying in the cities so I can't talk about the mountain areas. The Taj is unlike anything I have ever seen, pictures do not do that place justice at all.

    Tell us more....! :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22,048 ✭✭✭✭Snowie


    supermouse wrote: »
    Mmmmm..... not that I'm aware of actually!!!! Although I do use a lot of full stops.... wonder are they linked!?!?!!! ..... ((oh look at that, even some question marks, think I may need to sit down for the shock!!!)) :D

    I reckon stilletos and surfboards would look awesome.... Surely if I can balance on land I can balance on water... Clearly similar surfaces!


    you cant say

    MMMMM with out saying Cake its just wrong!!!!! .......
    oooo and ()!!!!!....... your good ......

    If you can ride a surf board on stilletos I'll well you name the dare.... :P


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,583 ✭✭✭cloneslad


    supermouse wrote: »
    Tell us more....! :)


    not much more to tell, I've read about more places in delhi than I've been able to visit and I've been here since tuesday, the reason being that I can't stray too far from the hotel room as that's where I know I have a bathroom. If you're coming here, bring a stomach made of concrete and an ass made of steel.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 793 ✭✭✭supermouse


    Ok, if I win, you have to show up in Memphis on August 19th armed with neon pink paint, a carrot and football boots and wait for further instructions!

    If you win....?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22,048 ✭✭✭✭Snowie


    Thats quite easy....


    I'f I win you gotta put in your sig " Snow-Monkey is a rightous dude and should be listened to at all times " ... :cool:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 793 ✭✭✭supermouse


    Nah, no deal. :p


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22,048 ✭✭✭✭Snowie


    sisssy :p


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 793 ✭✭✭supermouse


    Not a very imaginative dealbreaker though! :rolleyes:


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 757 ✭✭✭Apanachi


    Berlin is the next place i want to go.

    Don't get this whole fascination with Berlin, I personally think it's overrated (maybe it's because I've been living in Berlin for the last 11 years and it's lost it's appeal, but I've traveled around Germany a lot, and Berlin is by no means the best place in Germany off the top of my head I could think of at least 10 other places in Germany that are much better (I'd come up with loads more if I actually sat down and thought about it)

    My list (in order of preference):

    1. Iceland
    2. Sicily
    3. Cuba
    4. Canadian Rocky Mountains
    5. Jordan (Petra)
    6. Machu Picchu
    7. San Francisco (oh, to ride in that cable car ;))
    8. New Orleans
    9. Wildlife Safari in Kenya
    10. Sri Lanka


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,919 ✭✭✭✭Xavi6


    China and pretty much all of S.E Asia
    Inca trails
    New Zealand
    Vanuatu
    Tokyo
    all over the Caribbean

    Do it! Possibly the coolest place I've ever been and well worth a visit.

    I've no real interest in Africa or South America at the moment and I'm in a prime location to see a lot of Asia. At the moment the list would be -

    - New Zealand (happening in October for the Rugby World Cup)
    - Thailand
    - More of South East Asia
    - Portland
    - Canada
    - Fiji

    That'll be added to no doubt.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    Just off the top of my head:

    Back to Nice, Southern France. (Looking to buy a home there)
    Egypt.
    Easter Island.
    Osaka and Tokyo (return visit)
    Cook Island
    Nepal
    Preu and further Inca zones
    Space


  • Posts: 0 CMod ✭✭✭✭ Joe Quick String


    Himalayas & India
    Canada


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,893 ✭✭✭Canis Lupus


    I'm leaving in 3 weeks to cycle a chunk of the world starting with Africa nyer nyer nyer :P


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,491 ✭✭✭thebostoncrab


    Wanna come to Iceland? :D
    I'm sad now too.... sigh!!

    I'm not long back from Iceland, after Japan it's easily the best country I have ever visited. Flights and hotels are cheap too! We stayed with a crowd that look after apartments called Apartment K.


    1) Canada
    2) Italy
    3) North Korea
    4) Egypt
    5) South Korea
    6) Mexico
    7) Russia
    8) Las Vegas
    9) Norway
    10) Scotland (I've been to three continents, spent God knows how many hours on a plane/ferry, yet I have never been to bloody Scotland!)


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,740 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    The more I think about it the harder it gets to come up with a list. I'd love to just pick 10 random places on the globe I've never been and go there. Otherwise, Central Asia (the 'stans), Mongolia, Iceland, Nicaragua, Cambodia...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 249 ✭✭Norma_Desmond


    I've always wanted to go to Cuba and I don't know why but I see it on a lot of lists so I'm not alone :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,568 ✭✭✭candy-gal1


    L.A - have wanted to go there since I was 14!

    Las Vegas - same as above but probably since i was younger than that lol


    Hong Kong - to get a pic holding a panda, I looked it up that you can do this :)

    London - Ive never been there, yes its true lol

    Brighton - Ever since I saw Sugar Rush

    Germany - the most interestingly historic place Id like to see

    Venice - been to Paris, so this is the 2nd most romantic plce imho

    Greece - "shirley Valentine" lol

    Australia - want to see what all the fuss is about!

    Philippines - again, same as above


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,272 ✭✭✭✭Max Power1


    LA
    Germany
    Amsterdam (this one is in the pipeline)

    Australia
    Moscow
    China

    Texas


    Then just for equality, an oriental country and also a muslim country, just to observe the sociological differences


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,184 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    candy-gal1 wrote: »
    London - Ive never been there, yes its true lol

    Often overlooked despite being right on our doorstep. (or maybe because of that).

    One of the worlds great cities - fabulous place.


    Moscow to Beijing by train is top of my travel ambitions !


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    Some niche location that's horrible and inhospitable that nobody else knows about but by next year will be full of thousands of idiots like me complaining that it all spoiled now.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,751 ✭✭✭Saila


    strobe wrote: »
    There is this place, might be Chile or something, but probably not. Anyways, there is this big cave there, goes down for miles, full of bats, as caves tend to be, but that's not really relevant, I don't know why I mentioned it. Well if you go down far enough you get to this part of it that is about a kilometer long and it is full of crystals. Big huge walls of them. Some flat like massive glaciers, some shaped sort of like huge symmetrical snowflakes, others just random protrusions of crystalline oddness. They are all different colours, partially because of the varying junk they are made of and partly because the innate structure of them reflects and refracts light in weird ass ways, like a bunch of glass prisms surrounded by mirrors.


    I think thats where superman stores his kryptonite


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,730 ✭✭✭Balmed Out


    Indonesia
    Botswana
    Iceland
    Columbia
    South spain to Seville, Granada and Cordoba
    A trip to Jordan and Israel
    New Zealand
    Alaska
    Derry for Haloween
    Sri Lanka


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,435 ✭✭✭solerina


    1. Vietnam + Cambodia
    2. New Zealand
    3. Bolivia
    4. Guatamala
    5. Patagonia
    6. Belize
    7. Rwanda
    8. Chile
    9. Australia
    10. Costa Rica


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