One big trend in travel blogs is people publicly showing their Bucket Lists for travel – that is, the destinations and experiences around the world they want to indulge in before the breathe their last breath and leave the planet.
This concept was probably made popular by the movie of the same name starring Morgan Freeman and Jack Nicholson where these two characters get up to all sorts of crazy stunts before Morgan Freeman’s character passes away from a terminal disease.
Anyway, that’s fine by me – nothing wrong in having some goals to tick off before kicking the bucket. By the way, take your own bucket list with a grain of salt. Many people assume that they will live to an ‘average age’ of 80 or so (if you’re from a first world country), but half of the population has to die below the average age to create the average life expectancy, and you have no control over when that might be. So you may as well cram in as much as you can whenever you can, because you just never know!
As for me, I don’t have a specific or formal list, but I’m more of the impulsive type that goes after an opportunity that arises to see what great experience can come from it. And that’s why I’ve come across some weird experiences I never thought were possible, and I don’t regret any of them. I reckon if you focus too much on the bucket list, you might just miss a lot of great experiences you’d never thought you might enjoy!
So if you’re after an alternative list of silly travel experiences to adapt into a bucket list of your own, feel free to pirate this stupid list! Some of them are things I’ve written about before on this website, others I’ve just made up!
Here we go!
The Silliest 100 Ideas for a Travel Bucket List Ever!
- Do all of the things that happened in the Bucket List movie if you’re feeling lazy in making up your own.
- Throw yourself off a perfectly stable rock ledge into a canyon for the world’s highest bungy swing and try not to crap your pants when doing it.
- Drink a strange sounding beer that resembles genitals
- When you meet someone on the road who says they’re from the United States, reply with ‘where’s that?’ and see if they can figure out if you’re joking or not!
- Risk your life by flying on a dodgy Russian plane. Just make sure you bring your own parachute.
- Create a travel blog that actually allows you to make a full time living from it without having to live in a third world country.
- Drink a bottle of wine that you’ve won from a bingo game when travelling by bus in Argentina
- Take drinking and driving literally!
- Master the Spanish words of ‘pollo’ and ‘polla’. They look similar, but one means chicken, and the other means penis!
- Lick the walls of your room in the Salt Hotel in Bolivia!
- Go for a beer at the pub that is also a town!
- Stay in the backpackers that is also a tree house in Olimpos, Turkey!
- Only fly on the 13th of the month to see how lucky this number is.
- Get dressed up as something silly at the cricket!
- Buy some penis enlargement cream and see if it works!
- Eat food that looks like art
- Eat the world’s biggest prawn
- Place a six pack of warm beer into the Antarctic ice and see how long it takes to cool down.
- Bungy jump between two cooling towers!
- Get deported from a country but successfully re-enter it within 2 weeks
- Mend your shoes.. after being treated for syphilis..
- Move your entire apartment on a scooter
- Attend a meat eating street party
- Experience everything that you want with the silliest save money when travelling tips
- Go to a traditional herbalist to get hold of anything you want!
- Eat caterpillars for a meal
- Ask every Australian you meet on the road, ‘where’s your crocodile?’
- Find the largest denomination Zimbabwe note you can find – try for 100 trillion!
- Deal with the No Bullshit tour operator
- Buy cardboard imitations of stuff you need in the next life and burn them
- Try and win a million bucks on a game show so you can travel permanently!
- Eat a deep fried chicken head and try not to spew!
- Eat whale sperm. Not sperm whales!
- Walk up the Eiffel tower instead of using the lifts and see how good your lung capacity is
- Risk your life on an old shonky Russian plane! And try to stop using some Russian expletives!
- Eat something phallic!
- Take drinking and driving literally!
- See every possible travel cliche in the world that you can lay your eyes on that everyone else has seen!
- Play the former largest playable guitar.
- Buy a tube of penis enlargement cream overseas – and see if it works!
- Score a ride in someone else’s private jet just so you can save on paying airfares.
- Visit a sangoma in South Africa and wish for anything that you want!
- Try and decipher a Chinglish menu
- Successfully explain the rules of cricket to any North American
- Learn an entire vocabulary of swear words of any language
- Climb Mount Everest without dying
- Master some tricky language tongue twister
- Appear in a compromising position on Google Maps.
- Ask a french person ‘do you speak French?’ in English
- Visit Doctor Bong when you’re feeling sick.
- Visit every country in the world, just so that you don’t run out of dinner party conversations.
- Try and meet new friends on the road whilst being socially awkward.
- Send a postcard from every place that you visit instead of uploading tonnes of photos to Facebook!
- Give all of your closest friends Kangaroo Scrotum as a present
- Fly on a plane that ends up on Air Crash Investigations
- Try and not act like a bogan when travelling.
- Get behind the remote control of the robot jockeys at the Dubai Camel Races
- Drive around the Arc de Triomphe in Paris without crashing into someone else
- Eat at the knock-off version of KFC in Kabul, Afghanistan
- Dress up Frosty the Snowman in local attire!
- Exceed 300 km/hour in a hire car somewhere.
- Breach the Tokyo Rail locked conditions by storing a dead corpse
- Drink frog juice in Peru to see if you feel any healthier
- Wear the opposing teams colours at a soccer game in South America to test how fast you can run away from the home supporters
- Imitate someone else’s tourist photos in front of the world’s biggest landmarks!
- Test to see if drinking the mega strong Knockout Beer matches the hangover!
- Eat some grilled crap and try not to laugh.
- Dress up as an airport weirdo to see what kind of reaction you’ll get from airport staff and the general public.
- Try and interpret all of the Thai Smiles and what they mean.
- Visit a famous desert island movie set and not fall in love with a volleyball.
- Buy a pair of tyre shoes and see how much grease they leave on your feet.
- Get married at the Drive Through Chapel in Las Vegas.
- See if Natural viagra from Turkey really works
- Take a dump at the Loo With A View to see how gravity works
- Only eat the weirdest, most bizarre food on your culinary travels that may leave you on the toilet for your entire trip.
- Only communicate using Emojis
- Eat the world’s hottest curry powder without having a drink
- Dance with a beer can on your head at the Notting Hill Carinval in London.
- Make some paper out of animal poo!
- Taking a photo of the Taj Majal that isn’t the standard full frontal one that appears on every postcard.
- Eat duck fetus without bringing up the rest of your breakfast in the Philippines
- Use a product containing the word ‘placenta‘
- Instead of downing a bottle of Evian, try washing down your fancy French dish with a glass of Pschitt lemonade
- Call up your travel agent and ask them to book you into the Fook Yew Hotel
- Contribute to the beer cup snake at the cricket.
- Eat at a restaurant devoted to dishing up Spam!
- Annoy the locals by winning the lottery in a foreign country.
- Eat a burger than contains enough calories to almost meet your entire weekly intake!
- Eat My Nuts!
- Don’t take out travel insurance whilst undertaking thrill seeking activities.
- Place a winning bet at the Cockroach Races!
- Only hitch hike around every country to work out the proportion of axe murderers in each one
- Place a food order from a hand drawn menu
- Drink My Wife’s Bitter and try not to laugh at the irony!
- Become someone’s guru and see if they actually follow any of your shonky travel advice.
- Drink the world’s most expensive coffee that has come from the back passage of a smelly mammal!
- Travel like contestants do on the Amazing Race – all you need to do is know the words ‘very fast’ in every language
- Try not to go over the edge on the World’s Most Dangerous Road!
- Go into a carpet shop at the Grand Bazaar in Istanbul and not buy a carpet!
- Complete someone else’s travel bucket list before they do just to annoy them! And finally,
- Actually complete your bucket list with verifiable proof!
There you go, there is some silly inspiration to chew up a bit more time at work!
Let me know if you complete this bucket list and I’ll think you’re completely crazy!
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