DISCOVRTY travel CHANNEL - 101 Things to Do Before You Die
ADVENTURE
( ) Learn to survive in the wilderness.- Boulder, Utah
Put your survival skills to the test and learn what it takes to make it in the real world.
( ) Skydive in a spectacular place.- Auckland, New Zealand
For the brave souls who dare, skydiving offers a chance to get about as close to flying as is humanly possible.
( ) Visit an active volcano.- Costa Rica
Bubbling lava, paths of fire cutting through the trees - it's a sight most people only witness on television or in books.
( ) Visit a nude beach.- St. Martin, French West Indies
A midnight skinny-dip might actually seem prudish compared to the sensory overload of visiting a nude beach in broad daylight.
( ) Go to a nudist colony.- Palm Springs, California
Want to shed those extra layers, feel the sand between your toes, the sun on your skin?
( ) Scuba dive the Great Barrier Reef.- Great Barrier Reef, off the coast of Australia
It is half the size of the state of Texas and is considered to be one of the seven natural wonders of the world.
( ) Climb Mt. Everest.- Kathmandu, Nepal
Once the domain only of the most seasoned mountaineers, Everest today is accessible to people from all walks of life.
( ) Race in Alaska's Iditarod.- Anchorage to Nome, Alaska
In Alaska it's called the "Last Great Race on Earth," a 1,150-mile course that pits man and dog against nature.
( ) Learn how to be a clown.- San Francisco School of Circus Arts
Running away to the circus may be as easy as visiting the city by the bay.
( ) Go to Japan and eat fugu.- Japan or Korea
For those who like to inject a little danger into everything they do, the Japanese and Koreans have the perfect dish.
ANIMAL WATCHING
( ) Go on a safari.- South Africa
One million trips to the zoo cannot compare to the sights, sounds and smells of a safari.
( ) Take a swamp tour and learn how to wrestle an alligator.- Gatorland, Orlando, Florida
Visit the land of all things reptile: Central Florida's Gatorland.
( ) Swim with sharks.- Cocos Island, Costa Rica
Dive into the waters of Cocos Island, one of the world's most famous diving locations.
( ) Learn how to ride a bull.- Rose Hill, Kansas
Visit a fantasy bull riding camp and be a real cowboy - if only for a few hours.
( ) Get close to a wild animal that could kill you.- McNeil River, Alaska
Approximately 250 miles southwest of Anchorage is a pristine wilderness where animals are the priority and humans come second.
( ) Run with the bulls in Pamplona.- Pamplona, Spain
Trying to outrun an angry half-ton beast with sharp horns is probably high on the list of life-endangering adventures.
( ) Swim with dolphins.- Discovery Cove, Orlando, Florida
Take a dive with Flipper.
( ) Travel to Michoacan, Mexico to witness the migration of monarch butterfly.- Michoacan, Mexico
The tree are alive - with butterflies! One million Monarch butterflies, actually.
( ) Go whale watching.- San Juan, Washington
Spot whales in the waters around Washington's San Juan Islands.
( ) Visit Africa旧 Serengeti Plain.- Northern Tanzania to southern Kenya
Hop in a hot air balloon for a bird's-eye-view of the great wildebeest migration.
EXPAND YOUR MIND
( ) Go to a writers retreat and work on your novel.
Generations of writers have learned the same thing: the best way to wrap up a novel is to get away for a while.
( ) Learn to paint a landscape like Van Gogh.
It's never too late to pick up the brush again - or even for the first time.
( ) Read "Anna Karenina" and explore Tolstoy's Moscow.
Get to know the author by visiting his Moscow home, now a museum.
( ) Attend a Shakespeare festival and bring the bard to life.
Spend a midsummer night's eve in the company of star-crossed lovers and feuding families.
( ) Participate in a Pow-Wow with American Indians.
Get a glimpse of North America's heritage by visiting the Gathering of Nations Pow Wow in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
( ) Explore the New York Public Library.
Only in New York would the public library boast that it contains the "largest and most comprehensive collection in the world on the history, literature and lore of tobacco."
( ) Spend a week at Burning Man.
It's the fourth-largest metropolitan area in Nevada, but don't bother looking for it on the map.
( ) Visit Michelangelo旧 David.
Even 500 years after it was completed, Michelangelo Buonarotti's "David" stands tall in the world of fine sculpture.
( ) Visit the Hershey Chocolate Factory in Pennsylvania.
Hop in a cocoa-bean-shaped car and learn all you ever wanted to know about chocolate.
( ) Visit a prison museum.
Walk the hallways of America's most infamous prison.
( ) Volunteer to help others.
The biggest challenge may be finding the most needy cause or the most fulfilling project.
GREAT CITIES
( ) Ride a cable car in San Francisco.
When San Francisco constructed its cable car system 125 years ago, no one was trying to build a historic landmark or a tourist attraction.
( ) Watch the changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace.
Don't miss this quintessentially British ritual.
( ) Visit Paris and skate through the streets at night.
Join 10,000 Parisians as they hit the streets for Europe's biggest street skating party.
( ) Take in Memphis Elvis-style.
The best place to get to know Elvis circa A.D. 2000 is at his self-appointed mansion.
( ) Enjoy New York city at Christmas time.
See the Big Apple at its holiday best.
( ) Get a taste of high fashion in Milan.
From the moment you land at Linate Airport in Milan, you know you have arrived in the fashion capital of the world.
( ) Learn to tango in Buenos Aires.
To really feel the soul of the tango, head to Buenos Aires, the birthplace of the dance.
( ) Sip tea in a traditional tea garden.
The ancient Japanese tea ceremony is steeped deep in religion, history and mystery.
( ) Dance a waltz at the Vienna Opera Ball.
The ball transforms the Vienna State Opera into the world's most shining example of life as art.
( ) Visit the world's first public art museum.- The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
Completed in 1787 by Catherine the Great, the Hermitage was originally home to the empress's private collection of Western European art.
HISTORY AND CULTURE
( ) Visit the Vietnam Wall in Washington, D.C.
The black granite wall was constructed as a place of healing and reconciliation for the families, friends and supporters of the more than 58,000 slain or missing soldiers.
( ) Visit a former concentration camp.
Visit the memorial and museum dedicated to the people who lost their lives in the Holocaust.
( ) Explore the routes of America's underground railroad.- Flushing, Ohio
Learn about the network that helped 40,000 to 100,000 slaves to escape brutal lives in the south.
( ) Visit the Crazy Horse monument in South Dakota.
See the legend immortalized in a 563-foot-high, 641-foot-long sculpture.
( ) Walk the Great Wall of China.
Take a long walk along the wall, or just marvel at its ingenuity.
( ) See the ruins of Pompeii.
In A.D. 79, Pompeii was a bustling town, with a full complement of homes, markets and temples. Walk along the ancient streets, roads that still show the marks of horses' hooves and chariot wheel ruts.
( ) Visit the Athenian Acropolis.- Athens, Greece
A spectacularly preserved site representative of ancient Greek civilization, the Acropolis in Athens is an architectural and historic treasure.
( ) Participate in a traditional Tet celebration.- Vietnam
Grab your sparklers, bring along a party attitude and plan a trip to Vietnam for this year's Tet celebration.
( ) Celebrate the Day of the Dead in Mexico.
In Mexico, families come together to remember the deceased in an annual celebration of Dia de los Muertos.
( ) Re-live America in the 1950's: Go to a drive-in movie theater with your sweetie.
Revisit the days before multiplexes and DVDs, when drive-in theaters reigned supreme.
MYSTERIOUS PLACES
( ) Sleep in a haunted castle.
Mortals live until they die, but ghosts hang around long afterward.
( ) See Stonehenge.- Wiltshire, England
Even though it has been there for 5,000 years, no one knows the who, how or why of its origin.
( ) See the Seven Wonders of the World (or at least the Great Pyramid).
Seeing the Seven Wonders of the World would be quite an adventure - considering that it's not even clear what they are.
( ) Visit Machu Picchu.- Near Cuzco, Peru
The mountain-top ruins of Machu Picchu - the mysterious sacred site of the Incas - are so remote that for 400 years nobody knew about them except for a handful of local farmers, shepherds and the llamas that graze there.
( ) Visit a magnificent temple.- Sri Meenakshi temple, Madurai, India
When in India, do as the Hindus (or Muslims, Buddhists, Christians, Jews and others who live there) do.
( ) Visit a spiritual place.- Church of St. Suplice, Paris, France
St. Suplice is a 17th-century church named for the seventh-century Bishop of Bourges ? who was born to wealthy parents and dedicated his life to the poor.
( ) Kiss the Blarney stone.- Blarney Castle, Cork, Ireland
Five miles from the Irish city of Cork, intrepid visitors can find their voices in historic Blarney Castle.
( ) Visit the mysterious Blue Grotto in Capri.- Near Naples, Italy
Any number of boatmen will be happy to row visitors through a small hole in the rocks that is the only access to the cavern.
( ) Bathe in the Blue Lagoon.- Near Reykjavik, Iceland
Find out why Iceland is the hottest destination in Europe - literally.
( ) Witness the Thaipusam Festival in Singapore
Come along as devotees of the Hindu god Lord Subrani gather to practice ritual piercing in a festival atmosphere.
INDULGENCE
( ) Eat a meal with a world-class master chef.
Get a personal demonstration and tasting with a master chef.
( ) Tour a vineyard and sample a good bottle of wine.
Where can you go to sample fine wine?
( ) Stay at the world's fanciest five-star hotel.
Pamper yourself - hour-long, in-room massages, seven-course room service and butler-drawn baths.
( ) Enjoy the Oscars like the movie stars do.
You don't have to be a Hollywood star to have a stellar Oscars night.
( ) Vacation like James Bond.
Live just like the famed 007 -or at least like the novelist who invented him.
( ) Be a rock star for a day.
Even if you can't carry a tune, you can still enjoy 24 hours just like the real rockers do.
( ) Crash a Hollywood studio.
Get a guided tour to see the scene behind the scenes.
( ) Rent your own private island.- Caribbean, South Pacific and other tropical locales
Getting away from it all doesn't mean sacrificing the finer things in life.
( ) Spend a weekend in Vegas.
Anyone looking for cultural immersion with a touch of class and a load of crass will luck out in Vegas.
( ) Bask in the sun on a beach in Rio.- Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Relax and live it up at trendy Ipanema Beach.
( ) Soak in the mud and waters of the Dead Sea.- Ein Bokek, Israel
Visit the world's oldest health resort.
SCIENCE AND NATURE
( ) See the Southern Sky.
Visit an observatory and see the night sky in its purest form.
( ) Rediscover evolution the Darwin way in the Galapagos Islands.
For a tiny handful of islands floating in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, the Galapagos Islands sure have made their mark on history.
( ) Help dig for dinosaur bones.
Known for its harsh beauty, Argentina's Ischigualasto Basin is five miles wide, 40 miles long, 3,000 feet above sea level and a paleontologist's gold mine.
( ) See a tornado or hurricane and live to tell your grandkids.- Brisbane, Australia
Only a nut would choose to head straight into the eye of the storm, right?
( ) See the northern lights.- Fairbanks, Alaska
Alaskan legend describes the northern lights as torches carried by the dead as they move into the next life.
( ) Visit the Amazon rainforest - while it's still there.
Explore the Amazon from an aerial perch.
( ) Float along the Nile.
Experience the Nile's changing rhythms - sail from Aswan to Sehel in a traditional felucca.
( ) See the sunrise from Maui's Mt. Haleakala.
There's a reason Hawaii's best sunrise vantage point is called Mt. Haleakala, or "House of the Sun."
( ) See the birth of a baby - human or animal.
What if there was a place to go to bear witness to the birth of an animal?
( ) Volunteer to help save the environment.
Sometimes the only way to revitalize a sagging spirit is to throw body and soul into a project that expands your horizons and lends a helping hand at the same time.
SPORTS FANTASY
( ) Ride a leg of the Tour de France.
Riding the toughest race course in the bicycling world isn't for the faint of heart or soft of tush.
( ) Be a basketball star.
Lace up your high tops and hone your skills at a fantasy basketball camp.
( ) Hit the links at St. Andrews, the birthplace of golf.
It's just you versus 600 years of history.
( ) Drink a mint julep at the Kentucky Derby.
How did a simple two-minute horse race become one of the most important events in the American South?
( ) Take in the Indy 500.
Auto racing may be an international sport, but one internationally famous race remains purely American.
( ) Run, or walk, in the New York marathon.
Surviving not only the 26.2-mile run, but also a weekend in the Big Apple must be one of the most rigorous physical challenges in the world.
( ) Try to hit a major-league fastball.
The chances of hitting the game-winning homer are probably slim for most people, but there still may be a way to buy a trip to the diamond.
( ) Climb Mount Olympus.- Mount Olympus, Greece
One visit to the mountain of the gods in Greece is enough to remind any visitor of the true nature of the competition.
( ) Watch the sumo wrestling championships in Japan.
Like the Super Bowl or World Series, the grand championships of sumo are more than just sporting events.
ULTIMATE RIDES
( ) Take a train ride on the Orient Express.
Consider a journey where luxury and leisurely pace are the goals and getting there is half the fun.
( ) Ride a Harley across the U.S.
For a nostalgic taste of one of the last remaining slices of Americana, there's no better place than America's old highway to the west, Route 66.
( ) Ride the biggest, meanest roller coaster in the world.
Find out which of America's amusement parks are home to the best coasters.
( ) Raft down a world-class river.
For novices and intermediates it's hard to find a course that is manageable without forsaking the whitewater "hard-core" aesthetic.
( ) Ride a gondola in Venice with the love of your life.
True romantics know the most effective displays of affection require a lot of imagination and a dash of tradition.
( ) Ride a mule through the Grand Canyon.
Travel into the depths of the canyon aboard a mule, the ride of choice for prospectors of old.
( ) Test drive a Ferrari.
Pipe dream or not, some drivers just can't seem to shake the urge to get behind the wheel.
( ) Take a steamboat cruise down the Mississippi.
Travelers who want to recapture the Mississippi life so eloquently described by Mark Twain can still do so aboard a steamboat.
( ) Take a ride at the Pushkar Camel Fair.- Pushkar, India
The Pushkar Mela is a boisterous gathering of traders, drivers, buyers, gawkers and tourists.
( ) Train like an astronaut at space camp.
Learn what it feels like to be an astronaut in training.
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