501 Must Visit Natural Wonders

I got this book as a Christmas present a couple of years ago.

Similar to the Lonely Planet’s Ultimate Travelist, I don’t believe this is a perfect list, but I find that it’s a good guide for planning trips.

I spent the days between Christmas and New Year going through the book and marking all the places I wanted to visit (see the little stickers on the side?).

So here it is, my Natural Wonders – Travel Bucket List. The once I have visited are crossed off the list.

• North America
  • Niagara Falls: Visited June 2013
  • The Rocky Mountains: Visited May 2016
  • The Grand Canyon: Visited August 2014
  • Cave of the Winds – Colorado
  • The Painted Desert
  • Giant Redwoods – California
  • Cape Cod
  • The Badlands
  • Death Valley: Visited August 2014
  • Meteor Crater – Arizona
  • Yosemite National Park
  • Great Salt Lake – Utah
  • Devils Tower – Wyoming
  • Yellowstone National Park
  • Monument Valley
• Caribbean
  • Seven Mile Beach
  • Mustique
  • Exuma Cays
• South America
  • Angel Falls
  • The Atacama Desert
  • Iguazu Falls (Visited February 2024)
• Eastern Africa
  • Lake Victoria
  • The Great Rift Valley
  • Lake Turkana
  • Serengeti National Park
  • Mount Kilimanjaro
  • Victoria Falls
  • Tsingy of Bemaraha
  • Piton de la Fouraise
  • The Skeleton Coast
  • The Namib Desert
• Southern Africa
  • The Cape Floral Region
  • The Drakensberg Mountains
  • Table Mountain
• Northern Europe
  • Geirangerfjord – Norway
  • Maelifell – Iceland
  • Vatnajokull – Iceland
  • The Blue Lagoon – Iceland (Visited January 2014)
  • The Great Geysir – Iceland (Visited January 2014)
  • Aurora Borealis
  • Pingvellir – Iceland (Visited January 2014)
  • The Krimml Falls – Austria
  • North Tyrol – Austria
  • The Matterhorn – Switzerland (Visited September 2018)
  • Gimmelwald – Switzerland (Visited May 2015)
  • The Reichenback Falls – Switzerland (Visited May 2015)
  • Lake Lucerne – Switzerland
  • The Jungfrau – Switzerland (Visited May 2015)
  • Grindelwald Valley – Switzerland (Visited May 2015)
  • Trummelbach Falls – Switzerland (Visited May 2015)
  • The Eiger – Switzerland (Visited May 2015)
  • Dungeness – England
  • The Seven Sisters – England
  • The Lake District – England (Visited July 2013)
  • Dartmoor – England (Visited January 2015)
  • Wookey Hole – England (Visited January 2015)
  • The Jurassic Coast – England (Visited January 2015)
  • The Peak District – England (Visited June 2014)
  • Snowdon and Snowdonia – Wales (Visited July 2010)
  • Fingal’s Cave – Scotland (Visited May 2024)
  • The Highlands – Scotland (Visited May 2018)
  • The Cairngorms – Scotland (Visited May 2018)
  • Lochness – Scotland (Visited May 2018)
  • Smoo Cave – Scotland
  • Ben Nevis – Scotland
  • The Giant’s Causeway – Northern Ireland (Visited January 2017)
  • Mons Klint – the Cliffs of Mon – Denmark
  • The Black Forest – Germany
  • Middle Rhine Valley – Germany
  • Cirque de Gavarnie – France
  • Les Cascades du Herisson – France
  • Mont Blanc – France
  • Les Gorges du Verdon – France
• Southern Europe
  • Mount Etna – Italy
  • Vesuvius – Italy
  • The Blue Grotto – Italy
  • The Plitvice Lakes – Croatia
  • The Rock of Gibraltar – Gibraltar
  • Santorini – Greece
  • The Chimaera – Turkey
  • Pamukkale – Turkey
  • The Dead Sea
  • Wadi Rum – Jordan
• Australia
  • The Twelve Apostles
  • The Great Barrier Reef
  • The Painted Desert
  • The Blue Mountains
  • Lake Eyre
  • Uluru (Ayers Rock)
  • The Bungle Bungles
  • The Whitsunday Islands
  • Togitogiga Falls Recreation Reserve
• New Zealand
  • The Bay of Islands
  • Lake Matheson
  • Waitomo Caves
  • Lake Taupo
  • North Islands Volcanic Plateau
• French Polynesia
  • Bora Bora
• Eastern Asia
  • Huangshan Mountain – China
  • Wulingyiang Scenic and Historic Interest Area – China
  • Jiuzhaigou Valley – China
  • Mount Emei Scenic Area – China
  • Huang Long Valley – China
  • The Gobi Desert – Mongolia
  • Mount Fuji – Japan
• South Central Asia
  • Horton Plains National Park – Sri Lanka (Visited March 2010)
  • Yala National Park – Sri Lanka
  • Sinharaja Forest Reserve – Sri Lanka
  • Halong Bay – Vietnam
  • Coral Reefs including the Eye of the Maldives – Maldives (Visited May 2017)