I just added this one to mine:
I used to have a much larger list until I actually travelled in the developing world a bit. Now I am very reluctant to travel in the developing world. It’s often a case of great stuff to see, shame about the people. Insane traffic, poor sanitation, aggressive hawkers, dishonest people in the tourism industry generally and so on can really make travel in the developing world a massive pain in the arse. Take Egypt as one of the more egregious examples. There’s some insane stuff to see there, but it’s just such a shame that so many of the locals (and the society at large) are so fucked in the head. Not that I think Egypt would necessarily have been any sort of light on the hill for the rest of us anyway, but I think having a large tourism industry in a developing country is actually really bad for that country because it syphons off creative minds and a work ethic into devising ways of fleecing foreigners rather than actually making a country more productive.
Anyway, I’d like to see more of Scandinavia, probably camping. Ditto for certain other parts of the developed world if I could camp and generally keep costs down. I’d also like to see some places that aren’t really on the tourist trail, such as the Caucasus countries or the Central Asian countries, though the later can be bitches to get visas for and they probably have the triple whammy of being backward, Muslim and ex-Soviet (i.e. backward, backward and backward), though tourists would probably be quite novel there still so I wouldn’t feel as though I were battling the hordes every step of the way and I’d probably largely be trying to hit the outdoors.
I want to see and visit “The Eagle’s Nest” and Dracula’s castle.
There’s only 5 days left.
I’d better get a move on.
My top places to see in the next ten years (I’m too young to consider them before I die) are Nepal/Tibet, Patagonia, New Zealand and Alaska. It will be difficult to do all 4 because of geographic logistics but I’ll probably knock out 2-3 while going several other really cool places.
Why Patagonia? That’s quite an unusual place to visit.
Why Patagonia? That’s quite an unusual place to visit.[/quote]
It is? It’s an amazing place from everything that I’ve seen and heard. I would love to spend 6 months (their summer) in Argentinian/Chilean Andes backpacking and then revisit Peru.
It’s not so unusual, Patagonia that is. South America is the latest hot spot to visit right now, I actually know quite a few people from back home who have visited it!
Unusual is backpacking around Taiwan!
I spent a year working and travelling around Australia, I could easily spend another year there visiting the Western part and other areas that I just glanced on before.
The only thing I’d heard about Patagonia was Bruce Chatwin’s ‘In Patagonia’ (which I haven’t read). Sounds like I may have another place to add to my list, though I was thinking more in terms of places you would like to actually like to stand. There’s another I have overlooking a fjord in Norway but I can’t find it at the moment.
Patagonia sounds like one of those almost mythical travel destinations like Timbuctoo or Mandalay.
Petrichor: Perhaps I shouldn’t burst your bubble about Mandalay. :raspberry:
I met a German guy years ago who raved about Patagonia. He said it was his favourite place in the world.
Guy, it’s okay. I’d already heard it’s a dive. I used to live in Laos.
I might add Zanzibar, though. I used to teach someone from there, so at least I know it’s real!
Antarctica, Norway, Madagascar, Baalbeck in Lebanon, Iceland, Cuba, New York City . . . 
I’m glad I did a lot of traveling when I was younger and singler. T’was all so much easier (for me) then.
Last week someone linked me to a 100-places-to-see-before-you-die list. I figured I’d been to 77 of them. There are so many of these bucket lists these days. Patricia Schultz wrote a book called “1000 Places to See Before You Die.” They have it at the Taipei City Library. It’s good, but it’s heavy on hotels. I think she has two hotels in Bangkok (The Oriental and Sukhothai) that you just gotta see before you die. 
She has none of the 1000 in Taiwan.
There are a few places, like Easter Island, that are just too remote/expensive for what I want to see. I haven’t been to a new country for 14 years, but I plan to spend my golden years pestering young backpackers about how F’d-up things are these days and how groovy things were in the good old days.
Why would anyone have a hotel as a destination? 
This place looks cool: englishrussia.com/2009/09/20/sto … f-yakutsk/