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10 Incredible Sights For Your Travel Bucket List

Places to visit that will make you feel childlike wonder and awe.

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10 Incredible Sights For Your Travel Bucket List

Glowworm Caves: Waitomo, New Zealand

Okay, so glowworms. In a cave. Can you even picture anything more magical than that?! Mother Nature was totally showing off when she decided to exclusively bless the already gorgeous country with the glowworm, Arachnocampa luminosa. Imagine slowly drifting through the sparkling Glowworm Grotto, surrounded by a galaxy of biological luminescence… If you’re more of an adventurous type, black water rafting through this breathtaking cavern will most likely be the most memorable thing you ever do.

10 Incredible Sights For Your Travel Bucket List

Provence: France

One of the more popular European destinations, Provence is perfect for anyone seeking a fairy tale adventure. Surrounded by spectacular scenery, fields of purple lavender, and picturesque vineyards, are many grand chateaux and villages you can visit. Enjoy a glass of local Chinon while pretending that you’re French royalty.

10 Incredible Sights For Your Travel Bucket List

Benagil Sea Cave: Algarve, Portugal

You’ll feel like an explorer who’s just discovered the world’s most magical location when you make it to the picturesque Benagil Sea Cave. Sea caves are formed through the constant erosion caused by waves and the one close to Benagil Beach is absolutely glorious. The options of getting to this epic cave are few, either take a boat or brave the swim from the beach. Just be sure to go around midday when the sun illuminates the cavern and you’ll truly be able to revel in all of its glory.

10 Incredible Sights For Your Travel Bucket List

Galapagos Islands: Ecuador

The awe-inspiring beauty and friendly animals just may make you think differently about the world. This isolated group of twenty volcanic islands and its fragile ecosystem has taken on almost mythological status as a showcase of biodiversity. Yet you don’t have to be an evolutionary biologist or an ornithologist to appreciate one of the few places left on the planet where the human footprint is kept to a minimum. About 80% of the land birds you will see, 97% of the reptiles and land mammals, 20% of marine life, and more than 30% of the plants can only be found here and do not exist elsewhere on Earth.

10 Incredible Sights For Your Travel Bucket List

Bryce Canyon: Bryce, Utah, USA

There’s literally no place in the world quite like this national park. Hoodoos (tall, lanky pillars of rock) are the results of erosion and the spectacular highlights of this special place. Visit any time of year; during rain, snow, or a clear star-filled night — regardless of the elements the gorgeous geological hotspot will leave you breathless.

Whether you’re a first time traveler or you’re experienced, these top places should be on your bucket list so you can experience the joy and wonder of this beautiful planet. Which place are you visiting first?

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A writer, artist, and designer since she was young enough to put pencil to paper, Hilary taught herself code and created Urbanette when she was a teenager. Currently, she lives in Monte Carlo, but spent the past decade living in NYC, still considers herself a New Yorker, and visits regularly. She's always traveling, looking for hot new topics, destinations, and life hacks to bring to Urbanette readers.

Reader Discussion: 155 Comments

  1. Christie Chambers

    There’s a lot place to visit on this world, I’m sure you all have your own bucket list. 😀

  2. Blanche Lucas

    Is it safe to swim on the pink lake? How the fish lives in that sea?

  3. Christina Duncan

    Definitely on my bucket list to go to Myanmar someday. I wish I have the money to travel.

  4. Constance Vaughn

    I tried water rafting at glowworms caves! It is breathtaking!

  5. Erica Fuller

    Provence is on the list because Hilary lives there. ?

  6. Lynda Ruiz

    Galapagos Island looks interesting. Imagine seeing rare animals! Damn! I want that. Can you give me ways how to go there?

  7. Myra Walters

    The pink lake is what I want to visit first! I don’t know, but it looks like strawberry juice to me.

    • Fannie Kelley

      Yes! I just want to drink it from the picture. ?

  8. Kelly Summers

    Avalon Waterways is amazing in Vietnam and Cambodia. I was lucky enough to check this one off my bucket list. Sunrise in Ankor Watt truly an experience you do not forget.

  9. Sometimes the most productive thing you can do is to explore and relax? It’s not a bad thing to spend money on traveling. Enjoy!

    • Delia Gray

      I agree. Give time to your self, you deserve to have a week vacation after months of hard work.

  10. Candace Watson

    Summer is here and it’s time to check some great travel destinations off your bucket list! Pack the family, load the car, and get ready for an epic road trip.

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