Lonely Planet Ultimate Travel List (Bottom 300)
In our original Lonely Planet Ultimate Travel List post, we break down the top 225 places to see in the Lonely Planet Book. Our list only had 180, which meant that we had cut a few of them from the original post because we have no intention of visiting them: either they are so remote (or expensive) to get to, or that it entails actually climbing up mountains or other tasks we are not particularly thrilled about. However, some of the places on the list intrigued us so much that we actually wanted to include them in our Travel & Adventure list (aka bucket list).
Our first part of the blog had us visiting 33/180 collectively, or around 18% and we will tally that original number up to what we visited on this bottom 300 list to get the final number. As always, we will update these posts with new destinations as we come across them.
Lonely Planet Ultimate Travel List – Bottom 300
- Museo del Prado – Madrid, Spain (we’ll probably only look at it from the outside)
- Alcatraz – San Francisco, USA
- Piazza del Campo – Siena, Italy
- Postojna Cave & Predjama Castle – Slovenia
- Rila Monastery – Bulgaria (actually saw this from a documentary and was actually cool)
The Bund – Shanghai, China (Ruby in June 2012)- Rijksmuseum – Amsterdam, Netherlands (my Dutch friends highly recommend this museum)
- Pont du Gard Aqueduct – France (near Avignon)
- Alcazar of Seville – Seville, Spain (a royal palace)
Singapore Zoo – Singapore (Ruby in 2000 and 2012)- Wadi Rum – Jordan
- Luxor temple – Luxor, Egypt
- Natural History Museum – London, England (ugh, missed a chance to go here, went to the Science museum instead but entrance is free!)
- Cinque Terre – Italy
- Borobudur – Yogyakarta, Indonesia
- Duomo – Milan, Italy
- Burj Khalifa – Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Bwindi National Park – Uganda (yes, gorillas again! Wild ones. As per The Points Guy, a trek here can cost upwards of $700!)
- Silfra – Iceland (snorkel or dive between two continents: I would totally do it except the cold water is a bit of a turn off)
- Citadelle la Ferriere – Haiti (a great historical building)
- Itsukushima Shrine – Miyajima Island, Japan
Lincoln Memorial – Washington DC, USA (May 2015)- Chateau de Chenonceau – France (in a little town, but beautiful chateau nontheless)
- Valley of the Moon – Chile (not sure we’ll ever get here, but it looks interesting enough)
September 11 Museum & Memorial (January 2016) – we went to the memorial but the museum costs a lot of money!- Perito Moreno Glacier – Argentina (almost close to Torres del Paine; maybe we’ll visit, maybe not)
- Mt McKinley (Denali) – Alaska, USA (woohoo going there May 2017!)
- Arenal Volcano – Costa Rica (a friend went there last year)
- Asa Wright Nature Centre – Trinidad & Tobago
- Picos de Europa National Park – Northern Spain (not sure we’ll get there but including it in the list too just in case)
- Memento Park – Hungary
- Death Valley National Park – Nevada, USA (almost went here during our Vegas 2015 trip but didn’t have time)
- Ko Phi-Phi – Thailand
- Eden Project – Cornwall, England
- Waitomo Caves – New Zealand (near Rotorua)
- St David’s Cathedral – Wales, United Kingdom
- Dead Sea – Jordan/Israel/Palestine
- Cologne Cathedral – Cologne, Germany
- Cotopaxi National Park – Ecuador
Chatuchak Weekend Market – Bangkok, Thailand (March 2012)
The next 40…
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- Capri – Italy
- Bamburgh Castle – England
Lake Geneva- Switzerland (June 2016)Cu Chi Tunnels – Vietnam (November 2012)- Art Institute of Chicago – Chicago, Illinois (only from outside, it costs $25 to enter!)
- Piton Mountains – St Lucia
- Temppeliaukio Church – Helsinki, Finland
Petronas Towers – Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (2009)- Calakmul – Mexico (Mayan ruins)
- Caernarfon Castle – Caernarfon, Wales
Ben Nevis – Scotland (2011)- Guggenheim Museum – Bilbao, Spain
- Pulpit Rock – Norway (involves a hike, but whatever)
- Bay of Fundy – Canada (seems interesting where the tide just changes in the blink of an eye)
- Floating Reed Islands – Lake Titicaca, Peru
- Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque – Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
- Cape Cod National Seashore – Massachusetts, USA
Wat Pho – Bangkok, Thailand (March 2012)- Bheit She-an – Israel
- Majorelle Garden – Marrakesh, Morocco
Bioluminescent Bay, Puerto Rico (September 2014) -kayaked here at night and it was great!Tian Tan Buddha – Hong Kong, China (July 2009)- Alfama area – Lisbon, Portugal
- Grotte de Lascaux – France
- Kigali Memorial Centre – Rwanda
- Jokhang Temple – Lhasa, Tibet
- Museu del Oro – Colombia
- Museum Quarter – Vienna, Austria
- D-Day Beaches – France
- Bialowieza Forest – Poland
N-Seoul Tower – Seoul South Korea (February 2012)- Grossglockner Road – Austria
- Historic Center of Salvador – Brazil
- Glacier Skywalk – Alberta, Canada
- Monte Carlo Casino – Monte Carlo
- Lahore Fort – Lahore, Pakistan
- Mo’orea – French Polynesia
- Himeji Castle – Kyoto, Japan
- Sedlec Ossuary – Kutna Hora, Czech Republic (an hour from Prague, and is full of bones so quite amazing)
- Blyde River Canyon – South Africa
And another 40…
- Geysir – Iceland
- Karlstejn Castle – Czech Republic
- Danube Delta – Romania
Blue Ridge Parkway – Virginia/North Carolina, USA (Asheville, North Carolina July 30, 2016)- Brecon Beacons – Wales, United Kingdom
- Belgrade Fortress – Belgrade, Serbia
- PUnankha Dzong – Bhutan
- Meeting of the Waters (meeting of Rio Negro and Rio Solimoes)- Manaus, Brazil
- Baalbek – Lebanon
- Jeronimos Monastery – Lisbon, Portugal
- Tintern Abbey – Wales, United Kingdom
- Pamukkale – Turkey
- Diocletian’s Palace – Croatia
- Cliffs of Moher – Ireland
- Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela – Spain (Camino anyone?)
- Komodo National Park – Komodo, Indonesia
- Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum – Glasgow, Scotland (only for the building exterior, but not necessarily the interior)
- Cartagena Old Town – Colombia
- Catherine’s Palace – near St Petersburg, Russia
- Mt Rushmore – South Dakota, USA
- Burgess Shale – near Banff, British Columbia, Canada
- Loch Lomond – Scotland
- Blue Hole – Belize
- National Palace Museum – Taipei, Taiwan
- Hadrian’s Wall – England
- Swayambhunath – Kathmandu, Nepal
Tuol Sleng & Killing Fields – Phnom Penh, Cambodia (February 2012)- Standing Stones of Callanish – Scotland
- Avebury Stone Circle – England
- Malbork Castle – Poland
- La Boca District – Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Temple of the Tooth – Kandy, Sri Lanka
- Bard National Museum – Tunis, Tunisia
- Hallein Salt Mine – Halstatt, Austria
- Khao Sok National Park – Thailand (near Phuket)
- Mansudae Grand Monument – Pyongyang, North Korea
- Etosha National Park – Namibia
- Port Arthur – Australia
- Jungfraujoch – Switzerland
- Phu Quoc Island – Vietnam
- Melk Abbey – Austria
- Nazca Lines – Peru
- Recoleta Cemetery – Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Altun Ha – Belize
- Titanic Belfast – Belfast, Northern Ireland
- Zwinger – Dresden, Germany
- Island of Iona – Scotland
- Stirling Castle – Scotland
- Zocalo Plaza – Mexico City, Mexico
- St Fagans National History Museum – Cardiff, Wales
- Eisriesenwelt Ice Cave – Werfen, Austria
- Brandenburg Gate – Berlin, Germany
- Amboseli National Park – Kenya
Banaue Rice Terraces – Banaue, Philippines- Carpathian National Nature Park – Ukraine
- Aqueduct of Segovia – Segovia, Spain
Ipanema Beach – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (June 2014)Everglades National Park – Miami, FL, USA- Sea of Galilee – Israel
- Ostrog Monastery – Montenegro
- Kinderdijk Windmills – Netherlands
- Hal Saflieni Hypogeum – Malta
- Taipei 101 – Taipei, Taiwan
- Si Pha Don (Four Thousand Islands) – Laos
- Church on the Spilled Blood – St Petersburg, Russia
- San Blas Archipelago – Panama
- Kiev Pechersk Lavra – Kiev, Ukraine (church)
- Bucovina Monasteries – Romania
- Black Forest – Germany
- L’Anse aux Meadows – Canada
- Mt Fuji – Tokyo, Japan
- Kalon Minaret – Bukhara, Uzbekistan
- Trakai Castle – Lithuania
- Schilthorn – Switzerland
- Griffith Observatory – Los Angeles, California, USA
Tower of London – London, England (2008)- Trinity College – Dublin, Ireland (March 2017)
- Capital Castles – Luxembourg
- Camp Nou – Barcelona, Spain
- Panama Canal – Panama
- Monet’s Garden – Giverny, France
- Grouse Mountain – Canada (near Vancouver)
Graceland – Memphis, Tennessee (2016)- Plaza Mayor – Trinidad, Cuba
- Colca Canyon – Peru
- Spis Castle – Slovakia
- Aletsch Glacier – Switzerland
- Stingray City – Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands
- Foteviken Viking Reserve – near Malmo, Sweden
- Wawel Castle – Krakow, Poland
- Isla Mujeres – Cancun, Mexico
- Fingal’s Cave – Inner Hebrides, Scotland
- Leaning Tower of Pisa – Pisa, Italy
- Oceanographic Museum of Monaco – Monaco
- Oslo Opera House – Oslo, Norway
- Rock of Cashel – Ireland
Grand Palace – Bangkok, Thailand (March 2013)Independence National Historic Park – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA (August 2016)
If you’ve made it this far within this mega post – thank you for sticking to the list! I can finally return this huge book to the library. Hopefully it will serve as a good list for you to read through and to achieve — it took me a long time to actually come through with it, and having to put the other posts in the back burner to complete it. You can also read Part One of Lonely Planet’s Ultimate Travel List on this link.
2 Comments
zuzana vrabova
cool list ! good ideas!:)
Peter Prokaj
We got it all from the book! 😀