Well you found our special secret website spot. Congratulations! A hidden gem not advertised or mentioned anywhere else on the website. Kind of like a bonus track on a CD. You are a good traveler! To make a long story short, this is our, again purely subjective, list of things that everybody ought to have the pleasure of either seeing or doing, at least once in their lifetime: The Big Book of Life. Call it a collection of travelers pilgrimages, spots and things you’ve just got to enjoy for yourself. So here it is, simple and clean, as easy as any list. In no particular order and A-Z, sorry. Let the mind wander and enjoy… By the way, it keeps getting longer, not shorter!

Our Big Book of Life:

Acropolis, Athens, Greece

Alhambra, Granada, Spain

Amsterdam cafes, Holland

Angel Falls, Venezuela

Angkor Wat, Cambodia

Auschwitz, Germany

Aya Sofia, Istanbul, Turkey

Ayers Rock, Australia

Ubud rice fields, Bali, Indonesia

Banaue Rice Terraces, Luzon, Philippines

Banff National Park, Alberta/BC, Canada

Bike down Haleakala Volcano at sunrise, Maui, USA

Bolshoi Ballet, Moscow, Russia

Borobudur, Java, Indonesia

Calgary Stampede, Alberta, Canada

Camping in Alaska, USA

Carnaval, Rio or Bahia, Brazil

Chartres Cathedral, France

Chichen Itza, Mexico

Christmas Eve in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA

Climb Mount Fuji at sunrise, Japan

Cross the Andes between Chile and Argentina

Crossing Hong Kong Harbor on the Star Ferry

Cruise the Greek Isles, Greece

Dance the night away in Madrid, Spain

Drive across the country, USA

Drive Highway 1 near Monterey, California, USA

Drive the Bordeaux wine region, France

Drive the Corniche Road, Amalfi, Italy

Drive to Taos, New Mexico, USA

Eat Indian cuisine in London, England

Elephant safari, Northern Thailand & Nepal/India

Everglades, Florida, USA

Find your soul mate(s), anywhere you can!

Float down the Mekong River, Indochina

Florence, Italy

Fly fish, anywhere!

Forbidden City, Beijing, China

Gondola Ride, Venice, Italy

Grand Canyon, Arizona, USA

Great Barrier Reef, Australia

Great Wall, China

Have a pint in Dublin, Ireland

Have children, as many as you can!

Hike the Alps, Switzerland

Hike through a rainforest, anywhere!

Hong Kong, China

Iquazu Falls, Argentina/Brazil

Jerusalem, Israel/Palestine

Karnak Temple, Luxor, Egypt

Kathmnadu, Nepal

Khan el-Khalili Grand Bazaar, Cairo, Egypt

Kyoto & Nara, Japan

La Scala Opera House, Milano, Italy

Leaning Tower of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

Lhasa, Tibet

London, England

Louvre Museum ,Paris, France

Machu Picchu, Peru

Mann’s Chinese Theater, Hollywood, California, USA

Monaco Grand Prix, Monte Carlo, Monaco

Monument Valley, Utah, USA

National Parks of Kenya

New York City, USA

Octoberfest, Munich, Germany

Olympics (Summer or Winter), anywhere!

Orange pancakes at Peninsula Hotel, Hong Kong, China

Bagan Plains, Myanmar

Palacio, Palenque, Mexico

Palmyra, Syria

Paris, France

Petra, Jordan

Play craps at 3 am in Las Vegas, USA

Play golf in Scotland

Pompeii, Italy

Pyramids of Giza, Egypt

Ride the Marrakech Express, Morocco

Rome, Italy

Run the Bay-to-Breakers, San Francisco, USA

Seeing the aurora borealis, anywhere you can!

Serengeti, Tanzania

Shwendagon Pagoda, Yangoon, Myanmar

Sistine Chapel, Vatican City

Ski Innsbruck, Austria; Telluride, USA & Whistler, Canada

Spring break as a teenager in Florida

St. Peter’s Basilica, Vatican City

St. Petersburg, Russia

Stonehenge, England

Stroll the Garden District of Charleston, South Carolina, USA

Sun in St. Tropez, France

Sunrise in Himalayas, Nepal

Sunrise on Zanzibar Island, Tanzania

Sunset in Key West, Florida, USA

Sunset at Mount Kilimanjaro, Kenya

Sunset in Santorini, Greece

Taj Mahal, Agra, India

Take a child to Disneyland, Anaheim, California, USA

Tango in Buenos Aires, Argentina

Tikal, Guatemala

Todai-ji temple's Daibustu-den (Great Buddha Hall), Nara, Japan

Top of Empire State Building, NYC, USA

Varanasi, India

Venice, Italy

Versailles, France

Victoria Falls, Zambia

Vienna Opera Ball, Vienna, Austria

Vietnam Memorial, Washington D.C., USA

Visit a great ape/orangutan rehabilitation camp, anywhere!

Visit Flanders’s Fields, France

Visit Ganga Ma (Mother Ganges River) in Varanasi, India

Visit your ancestral roots, where ever they are!

Walk across the Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, USA

Walk into a Great Desert (for half a day), anywhere!

Washington D.C., USA

Xi’an pyramids, China

Yosemite, California, USA

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Some Honorable Mentions difficult to leave out:

Amazon River cruise, Brazil

August in Cape Cod, USA

Boating the bayous of New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

Boreno

Carthage, Tunisia

Copan, Honduras

Crac de Chevaliers, Syria

Cruise the Inner Passage to Alaska, USA

Dance the night away on Ibiza, Spain

Djena el Fna, Marakech, Morroco

Djenne's Grande Mosque, Mali

Easter Island, Chile (Good luck!)

Full moon in Sedona, Arizona, USA

Ephesus, Turkey

Galapagos Islands, Ecuador

Golden Temple, Amristsar, India

Hampi, India

Hiroshima Peace Shrine, Japan

Horseback riding the Outback, Australia

Iceland

Indian Summer in Tuscany, Italy

Kabuki theatre, Tokyo, Japan

Lalibela, Ethopia

Lourdes, France

Masada at sunrise, Israel

Mecca, Saudi Arabia

Meteora, Greece

New Years Eve in Goa, India

Newgrange, Ireland

Ngoroagoro Crater/Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania

Mount Rushmore, North Dakota, USA

Papau New Guinea

Panama Canal, Panama

Party at the Playboy Mansion, Los Angeles, California, USA

Passegiata, Rome, Italy

Persepolis, Iran

Ride the Siberian Express from Moscow to Beijing

Riding out an Atlantic Storm in Outer Banks, North Carolina, USA

Samarkand, Uzebkistan

Souk, Aleppo, Syria

Stanley Cup Finals in Toronto or Montreal, Canada

Summer in Loire Valley, France

Sunset in Bora Bora, Tahiti

Superbowl Weekend in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

Surf the North Shore of Oahu, USA

Three Rivers Gorge, China

Timbuktu, Mali

Valletta, Malta

Waiting out the monsoons in Ubud, Bali, Indonesia

Walk the Santiago de Compostela pilgrimage route, Spain

Whale watching in San Juan Islands, Washington, USA

White water rafting, anywhere!

Wimbledon, London, England

Witches Market, La Paz, Bolivia

World Cup Soccer game, anywhere!

Yellowstone, Wyoming, USA

Did you like the list, have we missed something, do let us know? If you've somehow been lucky enough to see and do them all, you need to be added to the list below?! Inquiries