Jukkasjärvi is a tiny town 200 km north of the Arctic Circle. Stay at the Ice Hotel in Jukkasjärvi, Sweden. Everyone ends up covered from head to foot in red mush.ħ.
This festival began in 1945 theories of how it got started include anti-Franco protestors, a fight between friends that escalated, and rough-play that erupted during a parade. It’s held each year on the last Wednesday of August. La Tomatina is a festival that is held in the town of Buñol in Valencia, Spain, in which participants-about 40,000 of them-pelt each other with tomatoes. The samba schools are community-based organizations that create the music, dances, costumes and world-renowned floats of the Carnival parade.Ħ. These parades then turned into a competition between the different Escolas De Samba–the samba schools–of which there are currently fourteen. The Brazilian Carnival started as street festivities with groups of people parading down the streets playing music and dancing. Each year, right before Lent, people from all over the world descend upon Rio de Janeiro for festivities lasting four days and four nights. Mark’s houses the relics of its namesake, the apostle Saint Mark.ĥ. Golden Byzantine mosaics adorn the church’s main portal, as well as the inside of each of the basilica’s five domes. Mark’s was built as a symbol of Venice’s wealth and power. The basilica was built in 1063, a time during which Venice had become a powerful maritime republic. It’s located at the eastern end of the Piazza San Marco, adjacent and connected to the Doge’s Palace. Mark’s Cathedral is the most famous church in Venice, Italy, and one of the best known examples of Italo-Byzantine architecture. Perhaps the most famous work of art in the Louvre is Leonardo da Vinci’s the Mona Lisa.Ĥ. The collection spans over 6,000 years and is divided into 8 departments: Oriental Antiquities, Islamic Art, Egyptian Antiquities, Greek, Etruscan and Roman Antiquities and, for the modern period, Paintings, Sculptures, Art items, Prints and Drawings until 1848. The Louvre houses one of the world’s greatest art collections.
It occupies over 650,000 square feet in the center of Paris. Visit the Louvre Museum in Paris, France. The complex of palaces and plazas, temples and homes may have been built as a ceremonial site, a military stronghold, or a retreat for the ruling elite.ģ. Machu Picchu is a citadel of stone built by the Incas more than 500 years ago, nearly 8,000 feet up in the Andes. Visit Machu Picchu located in the Cusco Region of Peru. Then, hike the ten miles to the South Rim near Tusayan. In order to really experience the Grand Canyon, drive to the North Rim, 45 miles south of Jacob Lake. Carved by the Colorado River, the Grand Canyon is over a mile deep. Visit the Grand Canyon in the state of Arizona in the US. The 78 bucket list ideas you’ll find below were taken from the “Idea Book” series.ġ. It’s a cornucopia of ideas for you to pick and choose from in deciding what to do with your one wild and precious life (to borrow a phrase from Mary Oliver).
#The bucket list: 1000 adventures big & small pdf series#
The “Idea Book” series is the result of extensive research into everything from the best festivals on earth, to creating rituals for strengthening your family ties, and countless things in between. I created a bucket list with 10,000 items–collected in 18 different eBooks which make up the “Idea Book” series. And, the first step to dreaming big, is to create a bucket list. If you want to live a life filled with achievement, success, fun, and adventure, you need to dream big. I’m a list fanatic in particular, I’m a lover of bucket lists. A bucket list is a list of everything that you want to be, do, have, and experience in life.