My Bucket List of Things to experience

Everyone has a bucket list and I am lucky to have ticked quite a few off as below:

• swimming in the Jellyfish Lake in Palau
• swimming with whale sharks in Donsol, Philippines
• swimming with nurse sharks in Belize
• swimming, kissing and catching stingrays in Cayman Islands
• swimming in an underground mountain lake in Turkmenistan
• diving with sharks in Palau
• said hello to the giant tortoises in Seychelles
• hang gliding in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
• bungee jumping on the bridge that connects Zambia and Zimbabwe near the Victoria Falls
• rafting in the mighty Zambezi river (Zambia/Zimbabwe) as well as Soca River (Slovenia) and in the Tara Canyon (Bosnia/Montenegro)
• sandboarding in the dunes of Peru and Chile
• spent a night in an igloo in Davos, Switzerland
• seen the dancing northern lights and ridden a snowmobile between icebergs on fresh sea ice at -25C in Ittoqotoormiit, Greenland
• seen the tulips of Keukenhof, Netherlands
• flown over the Swiss Alps (Twice!)
• parasailing in Bali

However this beautiful planet of ours has so much to offer.

So here goes my current bucket list in no particular order:

1- Skydive in Namibia

2- Give a gray whale a kiss in the San Ignacio Lagoon in Baja California, Mexico

3- Say hello to Pilot Whales in Peninsula Valdes, Argentina

4- Marvel at the world’s largest animals the Blue Whales in Sri Lanka

5- Swim with Minke Whales in the Great Barrier Reef, Australia

6- Swim with Orcas in Tysfjord / Svolvær, Norway

7- Say hello to Lemurs in Madagascar

8- Swim with hammerhead sharks in Layang-layang Island (Malaysian Borneo) or Galapagos (Ecuador)

9- Dive with bull sharks in Fiji

10- Kayak under the midnight sun and have a picnic on an iceberg in Ilulissat, Greenland

11- Rafting in the Futaleufu River, Chile

12- Spot moose and whales in Alaska

13- Swim in To Sua giant swimming hole in Samoa

14- Dive with tiger sharks in Tubbattha Reef, Philippines

15- Kayak with Orcas in Johnstone Strait in north of Vancouver, Canada

16- Flying fox from one island to another on the Coral Flyer in Sabah, Malaysia

17- Dive with a sunfish in Bali, Indonesia

18- Catch the golden stingrays migrating in the Gulf of Mexico

19 – Dive in the kelp forests and play hide and seek with the seals in California

20 – Swim and kayak with Beluga Whales in Churchill, Canada

21- Go on a polar bear safari in Churchill, Canada

22- Get on this super cool swing in La Noria Cenote, Mexico

23- See a humpback whale do something cool like this (location independent)

24- Go snorkeling from my doorstep in Moorea

copyright image of the Hilton, Moorea

25- Live alongside monks in the largest Buddhist settlement in the world in Larung Gar, Sertar, China

26- Gorilla trekking in Uganda

27- Hot air balloon ride over Bagan or Cappadocia

What do you think? Any others you would recommend for me to include in my bucket list?