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Some Ideas For Achievable Bucket List Vacations

By Kelly Wood


Life is short. So short, in fact, that it passes in a blink of an eye. If you don't want to look back on your life one day and regret all the things you never managed to do, it's time to start planning and saving up for your bucket list vacations.

For some people, the item on their list is a particular destination more than it is a particular thing to do. This makes it easier to achieve the dream because they simply need to save up for the cost of the flight and accommodation. Once they've identified the city or country they'd like to visit, they can then start thinking about what they'd like to experience once they're there.

An epic trek is a bucket list item for many people. For instance, walking Peru's Inca Trail to Machu Picchu is a popular and achievable choice. If your dream is to walk all of the Appalachian Trail but you can't take several months off work in one go, it's entirely possible to break it up in smaller sections and do one of these every time you do have the opportunity.

Similar to an epic trek is a spiritual pilgrimage. A very famous one is the Camino de Santiago, a long journey to the Spanish city of Santiago de Compostela. Jerusalem is another popular choice not only for Christians but also for Jews and Muslims.

A different type of pilgrimage can be to visit the places where your ancestors came from. In a country like the United States, for instance, most people are descended from immigrants. Visiting the town or village where your great-great-great-grandfather grew up provides a link with your past and will help you to understand where you came from and why you are who you are.

If there's one particular thing that you really want to do before you die, it's wise to combine it with a trip to a destination you'd love to see. For example, you can easily combine an African safari with a bungee jump off the Victoria Falls Bridge between Zimbabwe and Zambia. Another once-in-a-lifetime experience that you may combine with wildlife viewing is to scale Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania.

Volunteering provides some of the most memorable, life-changing experiences. If you decide to volunteer at a project in a different country, it's perfectly possible to do something incredibly rewarding, like making a difference to the life of an orphan, while seeing another part of the world. There are thousands of volunteer projects all over the globe and a quick online search will help you identify a suitable one.

It's not that difficult to go on bucket list vacations if you really want to. All you need is some planning and then the determination to see it through. Once you have an idea of what you'd like to do and where you'd like to go, you only need to break up that goal into smaller goals and start working on achieving them, one by one. Every great journey, after all, begins with the simple step of putting one foot in front of the other.




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