It is amazing how many people have “a trip around the world” or a number of exotic, culturally significant or spiritually uplifting destinations to visit on their bucket lists, as if we were nomads at heart (which perhaps we are).

Equally interesting is that some people have more things on their bucket list than anyone could achieve in a whole lifetime, and others have few or even none.

For both of these, and for travel lovers of all shapes and sizes, here is the ultimate bucket list of “must-see” places. It is not necessarily a practical list; some of these places are all but inaccessible, others in some way dangerous, including countries burdened by poverty, racked by disease, ravaged by war or suffering in the wake of some terrible (or man-made) catastrophe. Some of them will also be way over the average person’s budget.

However, we need to dream before we can act: in the words of a very wise North American Indian: “Truly rich is he who has more dreams in his soul than reality can destroy”. Some of these places one might actually visit, but in our dreams, we can visit them all.

80. Tipova Monastery (Moldova)

Moldova is a small eastern European country which borders on Romania and the Ukraine. Around 100 km north of the capital Chisinau is the largest Orthodox cave monastery in eastern Europe: the Tipova monastery. Between the 10th and the 12th century, caves were dug into the rocky hillside on the higher bank of the Nistru river near the Tipova tributary, which gives the complex its name. It is situated in the ruggedly beautiful and wild Tipova nature reserve.
Tipova monastery lies 95 km due north of Chisinau (1 hour 36 minutes by road). Car rental is essential.

81. Verzasca Dam (Switzerland)

Located in the Italian part of Switzerland, Ticino (aka Tessin) in south central Switzerland, Verzasca Dam was the scene of the 7.5 second bungee jump at the start of the James Bond movie “Golden Eye”. The dam is 220 m high and 380 m long and is situated in the beautiful Verzasca valley, upstream of Lake Maggiore. Those wishing to reproduce James Bond`s breathtaking bungee leap – voted the best movie stunt of all time in 2002 – can do so at Verzasca dam; online booking is possible.

The nearest town is Locarno, 10 km southwest of the dam (20 minutes by car). Closest domestic airport is Lugano; Milano Malpensa airport in Italy is 119 km, Zürich 224 km.

82. Timgad (Algeria)

Timgad in the Aures mountains, Algeria was founded around 100 AD by the Roman emperor Trajan as fortifications against the Berbers. It became a Christian center in the 3rd century AD, was sacked by Vandals in the 5th and was abandoned after the 8th, not to be excavated until 1881. Known as “Africa’s Pompeii”, Timgad today is a most amazing sight; an entire Roman settlement, complete with monolithic triumphal arch, columns and amphitheatre, rivalling any ruins to be found in Rome.

The nearest town is Batna (42 km, 45 minutes by road), which is served by the Mostepha Ben Boulaid airport 26 km to the north.

83. Berat (Albania)

Berat in south-central Albania was founded in the 4th century. Illyrians, Macedonians and Bulgarians took control of the city by turn, each leaving their cultural and historical hallmark; the architecture is largely Osmanic in style, however. Its name is probably slavic from “Belgrad”, or “White City”. Known today as the “City of a thousand windows”, it was declared a museum town in 1961 and an UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2008. On the banks of the river Ossum, relics of the earliest civilisations in the region can be viewed at Dimal, while the churches (and mosques: Christianity and Islam have coexisted in Berat for centuries) are a delight to behold.

Berat lies 122 km south of Tirana airport (just under 2 hours by road). Car rental is advised.

84. Ikogosi Warm Spring Resort (Nigeria)

Ikogosi is a popular tourist resort in the state of Ekiti, southwestern Nigeria. It is famed for two springs, hot and cold and side by side, which converge while each retaining its original temperature, a most unusual geothermic phenomenon. The springs were visited in 1852 by Rev. John McGee, a Baptist missionary, who built the first camp at the site for purposes of baptism. The Ekiti government has built a swimming pool at the site for visitors to enjoy the beneficial effects of the waters, and the Ikogosi Warm Spring Resort was created to house and care for visiting tourists.

The closest airport is Lagos (275 km to the southwest, 3 ½ by car).

85. Andorra

Andorra is a tiny country (468 square km) situated in the Pyrenees between France and Spain. Owing to its high and mountainous location, only one road leads into and out of it; since very little of its land is arable, this kept it isolated and impoverished until the tourist industry discovered it after WWII. Today tourism accounts for around 80% of its economy, with an estimated 9 million tourists per annum. The attraction lies in the great natural beauty of its surroundings, countless quaint and delightful churches, a fascinating cultural and political history and the largest spa complex in Europe.

The closest airports are Prat (Barcelona) or Blagnac (Toulouse), both around 200 km (around 3 hours by car or bus).

Source:
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