January 1, 2013 in Listings
Bucket Lists
My bucket lists help to keep me motivated and inspired and help to keep my sights fixed on actually living and experiencing life, and not to fall into the trap of routine and mundane day-to-day activities...
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Arapiles, Australia
Blue Mountains, Australia
Margaret River, Australia
The Grampians, Australia
Yangshuo, China
Chamonix, France
Fountainbleu, France
Les Calanques, France
Frankenjura, Germany
Kalymnos Island, Greece
Meteora, Greece
The Dolomites, Italy
Wharepapa, New Zealand
Wye Creek, New Zealand
Rodellar, Spain
Chiang Mai, Thailand
Railay, Thailand
Geyikbayiri, Antalya, Turkey
Ha Long Bay, Vietnam
Deep Water Solo
Complete the Aussie10 summt series, Australia
Mount Kosciuszko, Australia
Mount Roraima, Brazil
Mount Bromo, Java, Indonesia
Mount Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia (Via ferata)
Iztaccíhuatl, Mexico
Mount Elbrus, Russia
The Matterhorn, Switzerland
Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania
Complete the G12 summit series, Malaysia (partially done)
Australia (Yongala, Holmes Reef, Osprey Reef, Ningaloo Reef, Great Barrier Reef, Rottnest Island)
Belize (Blue Hole, Half Moon Wall)
Brazil (Fernando de Noronha)
Egyptian Red Sea (Thistlegorm, Ras Mohammed - Yolanda/Shark Reef, Sharm El-Sheikh)
Galapagos Islands (Gordon's Rock, Darwin Island, Darwin Arch, Wolf Island)
Indonesia (Komodo, Tulamben, Gili Islands, Pulau Weh)
Ireland (Diamond Rocks, Kilkee)
Mexico (Gran Cenote, Playa Del Carmen, Yucatan Cenotes, Cabo Pulmo, Cozumel)
Micronesia (Chuuk Lagoon, Blue Corner Wall)
New Zealand (Poor Knights, Milford Sound, Rainbow Warrior)
Palau (Blue Corner Wall, Blue Hole, Ulong Channel)
Philippines (Puerto Galera, Tubbataha Reef, Boracay)
Malaysia (Sipadan - Barracuda Point, South Point, Turtle Tavern, Hanging Garden)
Thailand (Koh Tao, Similan Islands, Surin Islands,
Fitz Roy Trek, Patagonia, Argentina
Cape to Cape Track, Australia (135 km)
Murchison River Gorge, Australia (~60 km)
Stirling Ridge Walk, Australia (~200 km)
Western Arthur Ridge, Australia (75 km)
Torres del Paine Circuit, Chile (~100 km)
Huashan Hiking Trail, China
Tiger Leaping Gorge, China
GR10, Pyrenees, France (~850 km)
GR20, Corsica, France (~180 km)
Mont Blanc Circuit (TMB), France/Italy/Switzerland (~170 km)
Laugavegurinn Trail, Iceland (55 km)
Dingle Way, Ireland (~176 km)
Annapurna Circuit, Nepal (~230 km)
Cho La and Renjo La High Altitude Passes, Nepal
Everest Base Camp, Nepal (~200 km)
Milford Track, New Zealand
Tongariro Northern Circuit, New Zealand (43 km)
Salcantay route to Machu Picchu, Peru (~50 km)
Cape Wrath Trail, Scotland
Caminito del Rey, Spain
The Pinnacles, Australia
Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia
Iguaçu Falls, Brazil
Ijen Crater, Banyuwangi, Java, Indonesia
Mulu & Niah cave systems, Sarawak, Malaysia
Giant's Causeway, Northern Ireland
Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania
Fairy chimneys in Cappadocia, Turkey
Amazon by boat, Brazil
Yangtze by boat, China
Nile by boat, Eqypt
Mekong Delta by boat, Vietnam
Angkor Wat, Cambodia
Great Wall of China
Terracota Warriors, Xian, China
Catacombs of Kom el Shoqafa, Egypt
Cheops' Great Pyramid of Giza, Egypt
Karnak to Luxor in Thebes, Egypt
Acropolis, Athens, Greece
Borobudur, Java, Indonesia
Tanah Lot Temple, Bali, Indonesia
Petra, Jordan
Pyramid of the Sun in Teotihuacan, Mexico
Sacred Well of Chichen Itza, Mexico
Bagan, Myanmar
Wat Tum Sua (Tiger Cave), Krabi, Thailand
Lantern Festival, China
Kecak dance in Bali, Indonesia
Rainforest World Music Festival in Borneo, Malaysia
The Day of the Dead, Mexico
Songkran Festival, Thailand
Retrace Darwin's travels in the Galapagos Islands
Step foot on all the World's Continents except Antarctica (partially done)
Witness the Serengeti Migration, Tanzania
Visit all the countries in South-East Asia (partially done)
1.To read the 'Reading of the World' List
2.The Politics by Aristotle
3.The Iliad and the Odyssey by Homer
4.The Histories by Herodotus
5.Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans by Plutarch
6.The Republic by Plato
7.The Guide for the Perplexed by Rabbi Moshe Ben Maimon
8.The Complete Essays by Michel de Montaigne*
9.The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud*
10.Being and Nothingness by Jean-Paul Sarte*
11.A Discourse on the Method by René Descartes*
12.Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
13.The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant*
14.The Decline and Fall of Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
15.Candide by Voltaire*
16.The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
17.Malcolm X : The Autobiography by Malcolm X & Alex Haley
18.Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by R.Pirsig
19.The Motorcycle Diaries by Ernesto Che Guevara
20.Ulysses by James Joyce
21.The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
22.Freakonomics by Steven Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner
23.Employment, Interest and Money by John Maynard Keynes
24.The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
25.The Prophet by Khalil Gibran
26.The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka*
27.The Trial by Franz Kafka*
28.Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
29.Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky*
30.The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky*
31.1984 by George Orwell
32.Animal Farm by George Orwell
33.The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells
34.Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
35.Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco
36.The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
37.The Lord of the Flies by William Golding
38.The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas*
39.Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra*
40.The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
41.For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
42.The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
43.To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
44.Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
45.Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
46.In the Light of What We Know by Zia Haider Rahman
47.Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak*
48.The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
49.One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
50.Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
51.All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque*
52.The Great Gatsby by F.Scott Fitzgerald
53.The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
54.War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy*
55.Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy*
56.The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan
57.10 Things to do til the Revolution by Claire Wolfe
58.Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov*
59.Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
60.The Art of War by Sun Tzu*
61.Paradise Lost by John Milton
62.The Hobbit by J.R.R Tolkien
63.The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R Tolkien
64.Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
65.The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
66.A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by A.Solzenhitsyn*
67.The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
68.The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt
69.God is not Great by Christopher Hitchens
70.The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
71.The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
72.The End of Faith by Sam Harris
73.Letter to a Christian Nation by Sam Harris
74.Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
75.Breaking the Spell by Daniel Dennett
76.Cosmos by Carl Sagan
77.The Demon-Haunted World by Carl Sagan
78.Pale Blue Dot by Carl Sagan
79.Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors by Carl Sagan & Ann Druyan
80.The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
81.A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
82.The Universe in a Nutshell by Stephen Hawking
83.The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene
84.Relativity by Albert Einstein
85.QED by Richard P. Feynman
86.Six Not-So-Easy Pieces by Richard P. Feynman
86.Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! by Richard P. Feynman
88.The Double Helix by James D. Watson
89.Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica by Isaac Newton
90.On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres by Copernicus
91.Harmonies of the World by Johannes Kepler
92.Dialogue Concerning the two Chief World Systems by Galileo
93.Capitalism and Freedom by Milton Friedman
94.Beyond Good and Evil by Freidrich Nietzsche*
95.Das Kapital by Karl Marx*
96.Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and F.Engels*
97.Guerilla Warfare by Ernesto Che Guevara*
98.The Motorcycle Diaries by Ernesto Che Guevara*
99.Anarchy, State and Utopia by Robert Nozick
100.Failed States by Noam Chomsky
- To Go
- To Read
Would like to invite you to try paragliding too..from the malaysia paragliding and hang gliding assciation…thanks
Hi Ramon,
Came across your website from the Sg Puah campsite link on KL Hiking’s Yong Belar meetup 🙂 Superb record of your activities and photos .. love them 🙂
Glanced through your bucket list … and very interested in the 1st, 2nd and last categories .. lol. 1st category, how can it be that Rodellar, Spain is not in your list?!!? LOL .. afterall, Chris Sharma relocated to Spain to be close to Rodellar 🙂 Getu, it’s also on my bucket list after reading through Petzl’s roctrip there in 2012.
I’m actually very interested to go to Pyrenees for hiking and maybe some climbing .. hopefully soon.
Hey Rachel,
Thanks for the praise 🙂 The Pyrenees is also a target of mine after the next 2-3 years or so. I plan to explore Australia and New Zealand exhaustively over the next few years before making my way to Europe.
As for Rodellar, yes I agree it belongs to the list. In fact I am not entirely sure why it wasn’t there in the first place. Thanks a lot for the input 😀