Lonely Planet Ultimate Travel List
If you’re a new reader of our blog (or a follower), you would know that I love lists — and I try to scratch off as many to-dos as I can. So, while I was browsing around the library looking for the next thing to read, I stumbled upon Lonely Planet’s Ultimate Travel List. Its claim? The 500 best places to see – ranked. I am not really a firm believer in rankings, but seeing as I only have a few weeks to keep this book, I’d much rather note down all the destinations and slowly scratch them off my list of places to see. Yes, even on top of my Travel and Adventure list aka bucket list.
I’ll note down what they are and where to find them, so you too can slowly scratch off these destinations — and maybe add to them too (knowing Lonely Planet they will publish another version of this, rendering the original one a bit useless, but hey, we like change, and this will be a welcome change. I may not agree to the full list so I have deliberately taken out all the places I have no intention to visit and put down Maybes in a different section altogether.
The list is very long – over 500 places to go. This will be part one in a two-part series of the Ultimate Travel List coverage.
Places on this list we have visited: 33/180 (18%)
Contents
Lonely Planet’s Ultimate Travel List
Angkor Wat – Siem Reap, Cambodia (February 2012)- Great Barrier Reef – Australia
- Machu Picchu – Cuzco, Peru
- Great Wall of China – China
- Taj Mahal – India
Grand Canyon National Park – Arizona, USA (May 2015)- Colosseum- Rome, Italy
- Iguazu Falls – Brazil/Argentina
- Alhambra- Spain
- Hagia Sofia – Turkey
- Fez Medina – Morocco
- Twelve Apostles – Australia
- Petra – Jordan
- Tikal – Guatemala (long been a dream of mine to visit)
British Museum – London, England (2011)Sagrada Familia – Barcelona, Spain (Peter crossed this off his list 2013)- Fiordland National Park – New Zelaand
Santorini- Greece (Peter in 1994)- Galapagos Islands – Ecuador (another dream of mine)
- Yosemite National Park – USA
- Dubrovnik Walls – Croatia
- Salar de Uyuni (Salt Flats) – Bolivia
- Bagan – Myanmar
- Pyramids of Giza – Egypt
- Piazza San March – Venice, Italy
- Victoria Falls – Zimbabwe/Zambia
- Acropolis – Athens, Greece
- Versailles – France
- Djemaa el-Fna – Morocco’s main square
- Hanoi Old Quarter – Vietnam
Part two of the list – 31 onwards
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- Uluru – Australia (although a friend said this is very expensive to get to)
Charles Bridge – Prague, Czech Republic(2011)- Abel Tasman National Park, New Zealand
- Lake District, England
- Louvre – Paris, France (Paris Itinerary)
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- Torres del Paine – Chile
- Eiffel Tower – Paris, France
- Pompeii – Italy
Havana Vieja – Havana, Cuba (Feb 2017)- Table Mountain – South Africa
Prague Stare Mesto – Czech Republic (2011)- Serengeti National Park – Tanzania (safari)
- The Hermitage Museum – St Petersburg, Russia
- Bay of Kotor – Montenegro (I’ve heard about this from Travel is Free)
- Ngorongoro Crater – Tanzania (another safari)
- Hiroshima Peace National Park – Hiroshima, Japan
- Pantheon – Rome, Italy
Tate Modern – London, England (2011)- Tiger Leaping Gorge – China
- Notre Dame – Paris, France
Edinburgh Castle – Edinburgh, Scotland (2011)- Sydney Opera House – Sydney, Australia
- Anne Frank House – Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Jokulsarlon – Iceland (icebergs)
- Yellowstone National Park -Wyoming, USA
Stonehenge – England (2008)- Berlin Wall – Berlin, Germany
- Isle of Skye – Scotland
- Halong Bay – Vietnam
- The Duomo – Florence, Italy
And the list goes on, 61- onwards
- Cappadocia – Turkey
- Palenque – Mexico
- Ilulissat Kangerlua – Greenland
- Mt Sinai – Egypt
Sugarloaf Mountain – Brazil (2014)- Mosque of Cordoba – Spain
- Lalibela – Ethiopia
- Lake Bled – Slovenia
- Arashiyama’s Bamboo Grove – Kyoto, Japan
- Redwood National Park – California, USA
Chichen Itza – Mexico (February 2015)- Masai Mara National Reserve – Kenya
Metropolitan Museum of Art – New York City, USA (Feb 2019)- Valley of the Kings – Egypt
- Franz Josef and Fox Glacier – New Zealand
- Hoi An Old Town – Vietnam
- Monument Valley – Utah, USA
- St Peter’s Basilica – Vatican City/Italy
- Red Square – Moscow, Russia
- Dome of the Rock – Israel
- Forbidden City – Beijing, China
- Uffizi – Florance, Italy
- Shwedangon Pagoda – Myanmar
- Pyramids of Teotihuacan – Mexico
- Blue Lagoon – Iceland
- Abu Simbel – Egypt
- Pere Lachaise Cemetery – Paris, France
- Big Sur – California, USA
- Matterhorn – Switzerland
- Stockholm Old Town – Stockholm, Sweden
91- onwards:
Golden Gate Bridge – San Francisco, USA (Peter in 2011)Giant’s Causeway – Northern Ireland (2011)- Auschwitz – Poland
- Corcovado National Park – Costa Rica
Niagara Falls – USA/Canada (June 2017)- Potala Palace – Lhasa, Tibet
- Bora Bora – French Polynesia
Empire State Building – New York, USA (seen so many times but nope, not going up: rip off) (2013, 2015)- Budapest’s Thermal Baths – Budapest, Hungary
- Topkapi Palace – Turkey
- Tallinn Old Town – Estonia
- Stari Most – Bosnia-Herzegovina
- Ayuthaya – Thailand (near Bangkok, and I nearly went here too)
- Vatican Museums – Rome, Italy
- Anakena Beach – Easter Island, Chile (moais)
The Peak- Hong Kong (1997 and 2009)St Paul’s Cathedral – London, England (2008, 2011)- Meteora – Greece
Aiguille du Midi – France (June 2016)- Bryggen – Norway
- Plitvice Lakes National Park – Croatia
- Prinsengracht Canal – Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Pantanal – Brazil
- Great Buddha of Nara – Nara, Japan
- Skara Brae – Scotland
- Geirangerfjord – Norway
- Ephesus – Turkey
- Kruger National Park – South Africa
Tulum – Mexico (April 2018)- Tsukiji Makret – Tokyo, Japan
121 onwards:
Sintra – Portugal (May 2018)- Carcassonne Walled City – France
Statue of Liberty & Ellis Island – New York City, USA (January 2016)- Vatnajokull National Park – Iceland
- Blue Mosque – Turkey
- Kyoto – Japan
- Grand Buddha, Leshan – China
- Ribeira Neighborhood of Porto – Portugal
- Koya-San – Japan
Walt Disney World – Florida, USA (2014 onwards)- Chernobyl – Ukraine
- Shibuya Crossing – Tokyo, Japan
Neuschwanstein Castle – Germany (April 2015)- Terracotta Warriors – Xian, China
- Antarctica
- Icehotel – Sweden (or any other place with an ice hotel)
- Banff National Park – Canada
Roman Baths – Bath, England (2008, 2011)- Inle Lake – Myanmar
National Mall – Washington DC, USA (May 2014)Royal Mile – Edinburgh, Scotland (2011)Christ the Redeemer – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (June 2014)Prague Castle – Prague, Czech Republic (2011)- Brussels Grand Place – Brussels, Belgium
- Kinkaku-ji (Golden Temple) – Kyoto, Japan
- Gulfoss – Iceland
- Rocky Mountain National Park – Colorado, USA
- Egyptian Museum – Cairo, Egypt
- Snowdonia – Wales, UK
- Volcanoes National Park – Rwanda (trekking with gorillas)
150 onwards:
Mont Blanc – France (technically we saw the mountain but no way are we going to hike to it) – we stayed in Chamonix (June 2015)- Karnak – Egypt
Gardens by the Bay – Singapore (September 2012)- York Minster – England
- Van Gogh Museum – Netherlands
- Sigiriya Rock – Sri Lanka
- Tbilisi Old Town – Georgia
Changdeokgung Palace – South Korea (February 2012)Korea’s DMZ – South Korea/North Korea (February 2012)- Krakow Main Square – Krakow, Poland (More things to do in Krakow with kids)
- Vat Phou – Laos
- Mont St Michel – France
- Blue Mountains National Park – Australia
- Mozambique
- San Gimignano – Italy
- Vasa Museum – Sweden
- Portmeirion – Wales
Times Square – New York City, USA (Dec 2013, March 2015, Jan 2016)El Nido – Palawan, Philippines (August 2013)- Robben Island – South Africa
- Wiliczka Salt Mine – Poland
- Jellyfish Lake – Palau
- Vigeland Sculpture Park – Oslo, Norway
- Summer Palace – Beijing, China
- Old Quebec City – Canada
Canterbury Cathedral – England (2011)- Carthage – Tunisia
- German Bundestag – Berlin, Germany (City Hall)
Malecon – Cuba (Feb 2017)Bru na Boinne – Ireland (March 2017)
And that’s it for part one. That’s a thousand plus words and 180 places in the list. It’s quite insane that there’s so many places to see in the world and we only have very limited time to do it. Hopefully this list helps you out in your travels! Watch out for part two of this post.
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