My Top 50 Bucket List Moments From My Year of Travelling!

Today officially marks a full year of travelling for me! This time one whole year ago, Demi and I headed off to the airport to embark on what we thought was about to be a little month long trip around Asia…

Little did we know that after that plane took off we would not be seeing much of little old Perth for the remainder of the year. Little did we think that our one month trip would quickly become two months, that I would be moving to Austria after a brief stop home to interview for Disney and repack. I certainly didn’t think I would yet again move across the globe to Florida to work at the happiest place on earth, and finally, that I would wind up actually living in London!

To mark my year of traveling, I thought I’d make a list of my top 50 best moments from the year! I never really had an actual “bucket list” I more just began adding “bucket-list worthy” things as I went through the year. I decided I should probably end this at 50 because if I didn’t it would have gone on forever and I would have wound up adding all my super crazy, random moments from the year… That’s for another post…

With that being said, here is my gradually created bucket list from the past year of traveling!

 

1. Stayed in an apartment in Phuket with a rooftop pool to ourselves overlooking the harbour, mountains and the city…. also managed to bust the “swimming pools turn your hair green” myth…Yes kids it’s true!

 

 

2. Party cruise around the stunning islands and waters of the Phi Phi Islands, jumped off boats into the clear waters as the sun set and visited the beautiful islands to relax from the partying.

 

3. Canoed through bat caves in Phuket, James Bond Island and managed to turn a sort of bland tour boat into a party boat!

 

4. First time white water rafting, bathing a baby elephant and zip lining through the jungles of  Thailand.

 

5. Dressed in bright pink coats in Hong Kong and called ourselves Flamingos for fun…. the next day we happened to coincidentally run into Flamingos for the first time in our lives!

 

6. Karaoke parties with new friends and our fabulous karaoke microphones in our hotel room!

 

7. We were escorted around Ho Chi Minh on a Vietnamese Cyclo, watched a traditional water puppet show, and had a dinner cruise.

 

8. Had a rather moving experience being able to shoot a machine gun and hide in war trenches in Vietnam.

 

9. Paddled through the Mekong Delta on a traditional wooden fishing boat.

 

 

10. Stayed the night in a safari hut and woke up to Zebras and Ostriches out of our window.

 

11. Tried out Parasailing and the Flying Fish in Bali.

 

12. Went canyoning through Bali canyons and jumped off 10m high waterfalls

 

13. Hiked Mt Batur at 3am where we watched the sunrise

 

 

 

14. Went on the coolest flight ever with Air Asia! Endless free curry, dance parties and contests, dress ups! Party flight!

 

15. Experienced Songkran, Thai New Year celebrations, completely by accident, but I’m so glad we did! Water fights and parties all through the streets! Also received a good luck blessing from the monks which I suppose fueled such a great year!

 

 

16. Finally found light up shoes and partied on the DJ stage on Easter in Bangla road with light up rabbit ears, before winding up in VIP areas.

 

17. Hiked upto the Phi Phi Island viewpoint with a paddling pool, which proved to be a pretty good resting chair for us.

 

18. Basically stayed in the coolest hostel ever in Krabi! Balcony Party Hostel…would totally recommend! They let us take our paddling pool into the bar and fill it up to join the party, there is a karaoke bar underneath it and clubs/bars all through it!

 

 

19. Snorkeled around the beautiful Phi Phi Islands, saw an eel, squid and lobster and watched the sunset from the middle of the sea in a longboat

 

 

20. Summer tobogganing down the beautiful mountains in my new home of Salzburg, Austria

 

21. Visited and swam in some of the most beautiful lakes ever! Mondsee and Attersee.

 

22. Cycled to Germany from Salzburg and found the cutest little castle village

 

23. Hiked Untersberg mountain and have never been so excited in my life to see a cross!

 

24. Watched the Swan Lake ballet at Vienna State Opera, one of the most beautiful theatres I have ever seen!

 

25. Went to some of Budapest’s famous “ruin bars” and tried making our own Hungarian drinks beforehand!

 

26. Watched the sun rising over Budapest from the beautiful Fisherman’s Bastion before relaxing in the thermal baths.

 

27. Visited an Ice Bar in Prague

 

 

28. Paddled around the Vltava river in Prague at sunset on pedal boats

    

    and rowing boats.

 

29. Chilled on a Jamaican beach place in the middle of Berlin…as you do and watched skateboarding dogs skate past

 

30. Went boating around the Broads in England in the summer. So Beautiful!

 

31. Accidentally attended a premiere for Valerian in Covent Garden!

 

32. Flying trapeze session in Kensington Gardens at sunset was the most beautiful send off before I flew off to my next big adventure in America.

 

33. My first day of Disney training…we were taken into Magic Kingdom and the second we finally walked “onstage” we were greeted with the massively overwhelming commotion which is Disney’s Move It! Shake It! Street Party! The atmosphere was the most exciting/overwhelming moment ever! To finally know that this was my new home and workplace. That I had finally made it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

34. My first moment stepping into a Disney park actually working. Spending time with Pluto was the best introduction to my new, incredible job.

 

35.   Finally watched a Cirque Du Soleil show and it beat expectations! Amazing…I may have followed up with a flying trapeze class where most of the performers train.

 

36. 

    Survived my first Hurricane. Thanks for stopping by Irma. You won’t be missed. I guess this isn’t really a “bucket-list” moment, but it was certainly an important experience.

 

 

37. First Dapper Day at Disney! And boy was it successful….

 

38. Visited and drank from the Fountain Of Youth in St Augustine

 

39. Attended my first music festival! EDC Orlandooooo!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

40. I was lucky enough to spend my 20^th birthday at a 20’s themed event where I danced the night away with Mickey and Minnie Mouse and friends!

 

41. Finally saw a Lady Gaga concert with my best friend who came down from Canada for it!

 

42. Swam in the cold water of natural prehistoric spring,  Devil’s Den.

 

43. Experienced the live jazz music in the street in New Orleans.

 

 

 

44. Fed and pet deer in the snow in Canada

 

45. Drove an Argo and tried cross country skiing around a frozen lake in Canada

 

46. Went to my second music festival with a friend I went to EDC with. Basically a snowy version of EDC!

 

47. Polar Bear swim in the freezing river in Canada. Jumping from the frozen river to hot spas…

 

48. Made a spontaneous NYC trip, decided and booked an hour before leaving.

 

49. Dressed up crazy for bars and clubs to celebrate the Austrian carnival, Fasching.

 

50. Went Toboganning down beautiful snowy mountain in Salzburg.

 

 

 

This past year sure has been an exciting whirlwind and I wouldn’t change a second if it if I could. So many insane and exciting things happened throughout my travels which I would not have even dreamt of this time last year, I only hope this year can continue to be just as fabulous!

Mel xx