
Scott’s Bucket List
I started writing the ultimate bucket list in 2017 in Chichester, England when I was working away as a construction site manager. I was staying on my own and had nothing to do in the evenings other than sit on Facebook and scroll through videos, when one of those ‘travel inspiration’ videos came up. From then on, I decided to make the ultimate bucket list of over 100 experiences, which was one of the only things keeping me going through the stress of working away and staying on my own. Before I knew it I had well over 500 goals which is ever growing to this day.
As I complete them, I cross them off and take a picture of myself doing it (Alex bought me an engraved album for Christmas one year which I’ve started to fill). I’m posting this on here, as I’m hoping to inspire people in a similar situation who are either stressed out or a bit fed up to start your own list to work towards, so here are some of the ultimate bucket list ideas for you all. It changed my life!
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500+ Ultimate Bucket List Ideas:

SkydiveAttend a wedding in a different country- Be in a TV show audience
- Get hypnotised
Go on a cruiseGo on the London EyeGo to the London Dungeon- Go to a drive in cinema
- Watch F1 live
Visit AmericaPlay bingo at a bingo hallVisit Las VegasDo a safari- Visit Peru
Watch a live Wimbledon matchHave acupunctureHave a mud bathVisit AustraliaRun my own businessDo a bungee jump- See the northern lights
Visit New Zealand- Visit Thailand
- Fly in a hot air balloon
Visit RomeVisit Estonia- Ride a Gondola in Venice
- Learn Polish until I am fluent
Swim with Dolphins

Go white water raftingGo zorbing- Visit Hawaii
Give blood- Go to the La Tomatina festival in Spain
- Touch an Elephant
- Visit Bahamas
Hold a Koala

Hold a monkey- Visit Maldives
- Visit Jamaica
Visit Croatia- Milk a cow
- Shear a sheep
Witness a proposal- Sleep in an Igloo
Stand under a waterfallVisit IcelandVisit Japan- Start a fire without matches or lighter
Be a bestmanTake part in a carnival- Visit India
Share a taxi with a strangerBuy a property on my ownJump into a pool fully clothedMake an origami animal- Make something on a pottery wheel
Be on the Radio- Attend a darts match
- Attend a boxing match
Visit Sri LankaVisit Northern IrelandHave a Turkish bathSee the Grand Canyon, Arizona- Have my palm read
Visit Niagara FallsOrder room serviceStay in a 5* resort- Visit Mauritius
Attend wine tastingBake a cakeDrive a tank- Catch, cook and eat a fish
Drink at an Ice bar- Pay for a strangers coffee
Eat CaviarBe in a newspaper- Visit a beekeepers
- Visit South Africa
Make beer- Have a herb garden
Grow my own vegetables- Send a message in a bottle
Visit BelgiumSkinny dipBe present at a birth

Do a random act of kindness- Visit an elderly person at a nursing home
- Feed a homeless person
Visit FinlandPlant a treeAttend an olympics eventShoot a gunSkuba diveDrive a speed boat- Drive a tractor
- Fly first class
Ride a camel- Ride a jetski
Ride a segwayRide in a limousineRide in a Tuk TukRide a rollercoasterClimb a lighthouse- Sleep in a hostel on my own with strangers
Sleep in a treehouseSleep on a canal boat- Visit all 7 continents (5 done)
- Visit Sweden
- Throw a dart at a map and just go
- Go on holiday on my own
Visit a temple- Visit a ghost town
Go to Glastonbury Festival

- Do route 66
- Visit Alaska
- Stand under the Hollywood sign
- Visit Times Square
- See Mount Rushmore
Visit the Shard bar/restaurant in London- Watch an England rugby game live
- See the great wall of China
- Climb the Eiffel tower
- Go to Oktoberfest in Germany
Go to the Royal Ascot racesSmoke weed in Amsterdam- Float in the dead sea- Israel/Jordan
Visit MonacoVisit San MarinoVisit StonehengeAttend a foam party- Earn 6 figures in a year
Own a second propertyDrink a bottle of Champagne that’s worth over £100- Stomp grapes
Have a ride in a Yacht- Visit Lithuania
- Adopt a pet that needs a home
Buy a JacuzziGo sea fishingHave Reiki treatment- Visit Mexico
Visit Slovenia- Visit Bali
Visit Czech Republic- Visit Vietnam
- Visit Bora Bora
Visit IbizaFollow England to a major football tournament- Hold a snake
Drink a bottle of wine that’s worth over £50- Go VIP at a festival
- Ride in a hot tub boat
- Watch Coldplay live
- Visit the liquid rainbow river in Colombia
- Stay in the hotel villa honegg in Switzerland
Visit Auchwitz- Watch an England cricket game
Go in a mini submarineWatch an Ice Hockey gameWatch an NBA game- Visit Jerusalem
Go whale watching- Stay in a forest for one night alone
Sleep under the stars- Learn a third language
Eat Kobe beef in Kobe, Japan- Visit lake Misurina in Italy.
Do worlds fastest zip wire in Wales.Go paragliding- Do flyboarding
- See the underwater waterfall in Mauritius
Go to Reading festivalBuy a brand new car outright- Buy a house in another country
- Visit Norway
- Visit Austria
- Visit the Philippines
Visit Scotland- Visit Madagascar
- Visit Dominican Republic
- Visit Albania
- Visit Armenia
Visit BarbadosVisit Cuba

Visit Denmark- Visit Fiji
Visit Luxembourg- Visit Slovakia
Visit MaltaVisit Romania- Stay in Jade garden resort in St Lucia.
- Watch a baseball game
Go abseilingBe in two countries at onceBecome a parentClimb a mountainFly a kiteFly in a helicopterDrink tea at a traditional Asian tea house- Watch a NFL game
- Visit Machu Picchu, Peru
Visit St Marks BasilicaDrink a Guinness in Ireland- Stay in the Ice hotel- Sweden
Visit the Pyramids of Giza- Edge walk around the CN tower- Toronto
Walk on top of the o2

- Do a colour run
Solve a Rubik’s cube- Volunteer at an animal shelter
See a war cemeteryDo a tour of the Normandy D-Day beachesGet paid to travelEat trufflesEat escargotEat frogs legs- Go on a slip and slide
- Swim with manatees
- Blow glass
Make soap- Make a candle
- Attend a murder mystery dinner
Write the Ultimate Bucket ListBet at the dog races- Visit Easter Island
Learn how to meditate- Volunteer for a charity
Eat horseEat rabbitEat ostrichEat crocodileEat kangarooVisit a castle in Wales- Go to a farmers market
Eat pheasant- Do the three peak challenge
Eat Gelato in ItalyWatch a United game at Old TraffordVisit a tea plantationHold a bird

- Do the Taunton Ciderthon
- Watch Man United play away
Watch England play at Wembley- Visit Chernobyl
- Write a will
- See one of the Queens guard in person
Eat at a 1 Michelin star restaurantGet a tattoo- Visit all 50 US states (5 done)
Visit the Hoover dam in NevadaSee the Colosseum in Rome- Visit Dubai
- Explore Petra in Jordan
- Visit the Taj Mahal
Do the London Aquarium- See an African tribe
- Host a foreign exchange student
- Do the ‘Worlds deadliest hike’ on Mt Huashan, China
- Dive in the ‘Worlds deepest pool’ in Dubai
Climb the Dune de Pilat, FranceResearch my family tree- Meet Santa in Lapland
- Run a half marathon
- Do a food challenge
- Stand on the equator
- See the statue of liberty
- Visit Angkor wat in Cambodia
- Visit the statue of Zeus in Olympia
- Visit the Temple of Artemis in Ephesus
- Visit the Colossus of Rhodes
- Visit the Chichen Itza in Mexico
- Ride a motorbike
Do parasailingVisit Aphrodite’s bath in Cyprus- Have dinner in the Coppa club igloos in London
Eat Pigeon- Cuddle a big cat. Baby tiger etc
- Experience a full day of darkness in a northern country
- Go to pig beach in the Bahamas
Use a swim up barSee a theatre show at the west end- Have a meal at a dark/blackout restaurant
- Visit Moldova
Eat bearVisit a prisonWatch Snow Patrol live- Do a gingerline food event
Do a restaurant in the sky

Visit Giant’s Causeway, NI- Ride in a seabreacher
- Do a shark dive
- Visit Pearl Harbour in Hawaii
Go to the Henley Royal Regatta- Visit Giethoorn Village in the Netherlands
Smoke a Cuban cigar in Cuba- Drive a snowmobile
Eat sea urchin- Go blob jumping
Swim in the blue lagoon, IcelandVisit Dracula’s castle in Romania- Become a godparent
- Cut down my own Christmas tree
Eat SmørrebrødDo dog sleddingSleep in a yurt- Go to the cinema by myself
- Relax in a sensory deprivation tank
Make ice creamMake wineEat heartEat tongueEat brainEat reindeer- Eat snake
- Find a four leaf clover
Do paddleboarding

- Stay in a capsule hotel
- Visit a glass beach
- Eat a Philly cheese steak in Philadelphia
Walk the Nyhavn waterfront in Copenhagen- Walk through the crooked forest in Poland
- Visit the tunnel of love in Ukraine
Go to a cat cafeVisit MontenegroVisit Bosnia and HerzegovinaVisit Lichtenstein- Visit Kazakhstan
- Visit Morocco
- Visit Georgia
Visit Egypt- Witness a miracle
- Make paper
- Go naked on a nudist beach
Get a shout out on the radio- Retire
Change a tyre- Do wakeboarding
- Make bread
Learn first aid- Drive a bus
Drive a lorryGet marriedFall in loveGet engagedAttend a stag doDo a brewery tourHave a pizza in Italy- Navigate my way somewhere using only a compass and map
Be a captain of a football teamWin a football leagueGo to a school promStay on ‘No Man’s Fort’ in the Solent- Visit the Eden Project
- Visit the pink lagoon in Yallabatharra in Australia
- Go Glamping
Visit SerbiaEat a tomahawk steak- Visit Dolomites, Italy.
Eat at Rick SteinsSee a Haka performed liveDo the Old Trafford Stadium tour

- Do Alphabet dating
- Eat at a 2 Michelin star restaurant
- Eat at a 3 Michelin star restaurant
- Use an E-bike
Visit Buckingham Palace- Do a Police chase experience
- Do the herbal chef experience USA California
- Visit Lake Brienz in Switzerland
- Visit the Faroe Islands
- Drive the ‘Road to nowhere’ in Norway
- Go Ice fishing
Have a cheese fondue in SwitzerlandMake my own cheeseVisit SwitzerlandVisit PolandVisit Turkey- Throw boiling hot water in the air; somewhere that it freezes instantly
Eat 100% Iberian ham (black label)Do Sea KayakingEat eelEat in a medieval restaurant- E
at moose Visit MalaysiaVisit Singapore- Buy a property in an auction
Feed a kangarooEat emuEat wallabyVisit Cape Verde- Get a PADI license
Snorkel on the Great Barrier Reef

Go to a travel agent, book a holiday and just goRide a horseEat an authentic hotpot in Asia- See the ‘light up’ blue plankton
Experience a full day of daylight in a northern countryVisit IrelandVisit HungaryVisit GermanyVisit Latvia- Visit Belarus
- Visit Ukraine
Visit FranceVisit Italy- Visit Bulgaria
- Visit Kosovo
Visit Greece- Visit North Macedonia
- Visit Russia
- Visit China
- Visit Azerbaijan
- Visit Iran
- Visit Israel
- Visit Jordan
- Visit Lebanon
- Visit Kyrgyzstan
- Visit Uzbekistan
- Visit Nepal
- Visit Mongolia
- Visit Cambodia
- Visit Indonesia
- Visit Taiwan
- Visit Hong Kong
- Visit The Gambia
- Visit Senegal
Visit Tunisia- Visit Ethiopia
- Visit Kenya
- Visit Botswana
- Visit Cameroon
- Visit Uganda
- Visit Rwanda
- Visit Zambia
- Visit Tanzania
- Visit Zimbabwe
- Visit Namibia
- Visit Seychelles
- Visit Puerto Rico
- Visit Brazil
- Visit Argentina
- Visit Uruguay
- Visit Paraguay
- Visit Chile
- Visit Colombia
- Visit Papua New Guinea
- Visit Tonga
- Visit the Solomon Islands
- Visit Tasmania
- Visit Greenland
- Visit Bolivia
- Visit Ecuador
- Visit Venezuela
- Visit Costa Rica
- Visit Guatemala
- Visit St Lucia
- Visit Nicaragua
- Visit Trinidad and Tobago
Do a free Open University courseMake my own pickled onions/eggsEat pig’s earsVisit CyprusRide a quad bike

- Try the best breakfast in the world at Valle de Guadalupe, Mexico
Go to a SpaVisit the Roman Baths in Bath- Eat cactus
Bet at a casino in Las Vegas- Visit a cattle ranch in southern USA and do a cattle drive
- Eat testicles
- Go to the sunset boulevard in LA
- Eat buffalo mozzarella in Campania, Italy
Visit CanadaVisit NetherlandsVisit PortugalVisit Spain- Watch a rodeo in America
Visit the Blue Mountains in Sydney, Australia- Play chicken sh*t bingo in Austin, Texas
- Cruise along the Ha Long Bay in Vietnam
- Visit the Galapagos Islands
- Go on an expedition in Antarctica
- See a polar bear in the Arctic
Do a jet boat ride on the Shotover River, New ZealandDo a Luge ride- Visit St Tropez
Eat oysters in Arcachon Bay, FranceGo whisky tasting in Scotland- Go to a Highland Games in Scotland
- Do fly fishing
Do a rage room experience- Eat lamb from Mustapha’s in Marrakesh in Morocco
- Eat at one of Gordon Ramsay’s restaurants
Do river tubing- Do jury service
- Sleep in a fale
- Meet someone famous
Write a thank you letter/email to a company that treated me well- Knit something
- Make a calendar with my own photos
Get a fish pedicureFlip a property- Fly in a private jet
Leave 100% tip for excellent serviceMake jam- Eat alpaca
Eat bone marrowEat chicken feet- Eat guinea pig
Eat haggis in ScotlandEat octopus- Eat scorpion
Complete 1000 piece jigsaw puzzle- Rope swing into water
Stay awake for 24 hoursGo off-roading- Go on an overnight train
- Stay in an underwater hotel
Snorkel/scuba dive in an underwater museumSwim in Lake Bled, Slovenia- Experience St Patrick’s day in Ireland
Rescue a wild animal- Do yoga
- Do goat yoga
Write The Ultimate Bucket List- Eat crow
- Do hang-gliding
- Walk 100,000 steps
Eat guinea fowlVisit The VaticanWatch the Pope do a speech at the Vatican

Eat oxtailEat sweetbreadsEat fermented shark in Iceland- Go ice swimming
Do canyoning- Do a mountain rollercoaster
- Go on an F1 H2O ride
- Drive a monster truck
- Eat poutine in Canada
- Do a wing walk
Eat Camembert in NormandyEat a Cornish pasty in Cornwall- Go crabbing
Have a true Cornish cream teaEat oystersEat lobsterEat turbot- Do an escape room
Play golfEat goatDo an indoor skydiveVisit the Minack Theatre- Walk across to St Michael’s Mount
Visit Land’s End- Go Fishing
- Visit John O’Groats
Eat duck heartsEat pigs tailEat pigs trotter- Eat a traditional kebab in Turkey
Eat Squirrel- Spend Christmas in New York
Do an Alpaca experience- Stay in an Ayder Rize cabin, Turkey
- Watch the hot air balloons in Cappadocia, Turkey
- Do a skyscraper swing
Visit Hobbiton in New Zealand- Drink Port in Porto
Have an Ulster Fry in Ireland- Visit Athens
Have a hot stone massageEat stagDo axe throwing- Eat woodcock
- Buy a property off-plan
- Stay in Villa Zlatorog at Lake Bled
See a live volcano- Do a Monte Sledge ride in Madeira, Portugal
- Search for the Loch Ness monster, Scotland
- Learn to play the guitar
- Eat pie, mash and liquor in London
- Eat at one of ‘Salt Bae’s’ restaurants
Do beer tasting in BelgiumVisit Grand Place and Mannekin Pis in Brussels, BelgiumDo a cruise down the River Nile- Camp in Wadi Rum, Jordan
Do desert stargazingWatch sumo wrestling liveEat PuffinVisit South KoreaRide a rail bikeEat a black egg in Owakudani, JapanSee the cherry blossoms in Japan- Do the soccer Saturday challenge
- Eat a Vindaloo
- Do the NC500 route in Scotland
Travel on a bullet train- Visit Lisbon for a Portuguese tart
- Eat at Bar Nestor, San Sebastian, Spain
- See the tulip fields in the Netherlands
- Take in the view of Salar De Uyuni Salt Flats, Bolivia
Cross the Shibuya crossing in Tokyo, JapanEat sushi at the Tsukijus Fish Market in Tokyo, JapanGo up the worlds tallest tower, Skytree, Tokyo, Japan- Swim in the blood river, Russia
- Visit penguin beach, Cape Town, South Africa
Eat squid gutsWrite a letter to your future self- Visit the Ivory Hills, China
- Eat noni (vomit) fruit
- Visit Clarkson’s Farm
- Visit The Golden Bridge in Vietnam
Visit Qatar- See the Great Blue Hole, Belize
Visit Oman

Eat ray wingVisit the Waitomo glow worm caves in New Zealand- See a glacier
See a geyserVisit SamoaSwim to the end of Wadi Shab to the cave waterfall, Oman- Witness the summer solstice at Stonehenge
Do dune bashing- Visit the underground cities of Cappadocia, Turkey
- See the chocolate hills in The Phillippines
Have a floating massageVisit a black sand beachStand in two continents at the same timeDo rum tasting in the CaribbeanEat deep fried ice creamMake a sand bath at Hot Water Beach in New ZealandWatch a show/concert at the Sphere, Las VegasSmoke a ShishaSwim in the To Sua Ocean Trench, SamoaTravel across the Golden Gate Bridge, San FranciscoVisit Yosemite, CaliforniaVisit a mosque- Eat a deep fried mars bar in Scotland
Eat CamelEat lung- Visit Yemen
- Visit Socotra Island, Yemen
- Do the Campfire Barista’s Forest Cafe Experience in Levi, Finland
Swim with Turtles- Visit Tuvalu
- Do bamboo rafting
- Eat gecko
- Eat rat
- Do a bobsleigh ride
- Visit Vanuatu
- Swim in the Victoria falls, Zimbabwe
- Watch a train go by in Train Street, Vietnam
- Attend the festival of San Fermin, Spain
- Hike up the rainbow mountain in Peru
- Travel to the end of the world, Ushuaia, Argentina
- Swim with Penguins at boulders beach, South Africa
- Do aqua karting
- Go to the edge of space in a MIG plane
- Watch a football World Cup final live
- Ride the Keranjang Sultan chair ride in Sukabumi, Indonesia
- Do a safari in the Serengeti, Tanzania
- Spend an evening at Elephant Rock, Saudi Arabia
- Do a darkness retreat
- Play real life Mario Kart
- Eat Iguana
- Build our own dream home
- Visit Myanmar
- Visit the temples of Bagan, Myanmar
- Visit the ruins of Tikal, Guatemala
- Organise a charity event
- Set a Guinness World Record
- Do a week long digital detox
- Go Rollerblading
- Ride on a hoverboat
- Visit the Iguazu waterfall, Brazil
- Visit North Korea
- Visit Afghanistan
- Visit Algeria
- Visit Andorra
- Visit Angola
- Visit Bangladesh
- Visit Benin
- Visit Ivory Coast
- Visit Chad
- Visit Belize
- Visit Congo
- Visit Democratic Republic of Congo
- Visit Djibouti
- Visit Bhutan
- Visit Antigua and Barbuda
- Visit Bahrain
- Visit Dominica
- Visit Eritrea
- Visit Gabon
- Visit Burkina Faso
Visit Grenada- Visit Brunei
- Visit Comoros
- Visit Equatorial Guinea
- Visit Central African Republic
- Visit Burundi
- Visit Ghana
- Visit Honduras
- Visit Eswatini
- Visit Laos
- Visit Guyana
- Visit El Salvador
- Visit Malawi
- Visit Saint Kitts and Nevis
- Visit Nauru
- Visit Liberia
- Visit Haiti
- Visit Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- Visit Marshall Islands
- Visit Saudi Arabia
- Visit Kuwait
- Visit Micronesia
- Visit Guinea
- Visit Guinea-Bissau
- Visit Niger
- Visit Libya
- Visit Mali
- Visit Somalia
- Visit Kiribati
- Visit Syria
- Visit Lesotho
- Visit Mozambique
- Visit Timor-Leste
- Visit Iraq
- Visit Panama
- Visit South Sudan
- Visit Pakistan
- Visit Sao Tome and Principe
- Visit Mauritania
- Visit Sudan
- Visit Turkmenistan
- Visit Nigeria
- Visit Palau
- Visit Togo
- Visit Tajikistan
- Visit United Arab Emirates
- Visit Suriname
- Visit Sierra Leone
- Witness cows first day out after winter
- Eat at the Iris restaurant Hardangerfjord, Norway
- Stay in a jungle bubble in Thailand
- Have a drink in the White Cross, London- The pub that floods
- Witness the Great Migration in Kenya or Tanzania
- Have a drink at a floating bar
- Try white gold caviar
- Experience the Tuna Fight Club in London
Suck on a fresh cocoa bean- Do white water sledging
- Watch the British and Irish Lions on tour
Eat flying fish in Barbados- Chew on a betel nut
- Try possum

Please leave a comment if you have any other suggestions for me to add!
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