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 2013The Rocky Mountains: Visited May 2016The 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
- 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 ad Snowdonia – Wales (Visited July 2010)- Fingal’s Cave – Scotland
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 LankaSinharaja Forest Reserve – Sri Lanka- Halong Bay – Vietnam
Coral Reefs including the Eye of the Maldives – Maldives (Visited May 2017)