Joey D
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My favourite professor suggested to our class the other day that we should all make our own Bucket List probably because he had just seen the movie. He said as Anthropologist and Archaeologist in training this is something we should think about and actually gave us an assignment to come up with at least 10 places to see before you die. I figured everyone has some sort of idea of a few places they want to see, although I'm guessing not all of them are worldly treasures.
In no real order:
1.) Rapa Nui National Park, Easter Island, Chile - This is the island with the giant stone heads carved from rock called Moai on them that no one can really explain and pretty much destroyed the culture that was living there. Ever since I've been a little kid these giant heads have fascinated me.
2.) L'Anse aux Meadows (Jellyfish Cove), Newfoundland, Canada - The site of the earliest known settlement of European settlers in North America.
3.) Lascaux, Dordogne, France - The site of well known cave paintings that are 16,000 years old. As an archaeology student I read about them and see photos of them all the time and it would be awesome to experience it first hand.
4.) Olduvai Gorge, Great Rift Valley, Tanzania - It's known as the "Cradle of Mankind" so I would love to go there to see where, as a human, I came from. Also I might stubble onto a giant, black, monolith.
5.) Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park, Northern Territory, Australia - I have always wanted to see a sunset on Uluru (Aryes Rock) since I hear it's pretty amazing by the few family friend who have been there. Plus it is a big ass rock in the middle of the desert, if that doesn't scream an awesome time I do not know what does.
6.) Galapagos National Park, Galápagos Islands, Ecuador - This is another place I have dreamed of going since I've been a little kid, it's so remote and there are so many interesting wildlife species on it.
7.) Stanley, Falkland Islands, United Kingdom - I've always wanted to visit one of those island chains off the southern coast of South America and since the Falkland's are rich in military history and they are supposed to have some amazing golf courses count me in.
8.) Þingvellir National Park, Reykjanesskagi, Iceland - I think probably the number one place that I have to see before I kick it is Iceland. The more I think about the more I regret not going there when I was in Europe this past summer. Someday. I'm trying to convince Kate if we get married that would make an awesome honeymoon. Þingvellir sticks out to me because of the geological history but it is also the site of the oldest parliamentary government in the world, the Althing.
9.) Prague, Czech Republic - Everything I have ever seen or read about this city makes me want to go there: the castle, the Astronomical Clock, and the tower with the babies on it.
10.) Dubai City, UAE - It's the pinnacle of excess in modern human civilisation and it would be an awesome place to go to see how the truly rich live their lives.
In no real order:
1.) Rapa Nui National Park, Easter Island, Chile - This is the island with the giant stone heads carved from rock called Moai on them that no one can really explain and pretty much destroyed the culture that was living there. Ever since I've been a little kid these giant heads have fascinated me.
2.) L'Anse aux Meadows (Jellyfish Cove), Newfoundland, Canada - The site of the earliest known settlement of European settlers in North America.
3.) Lascaux, Dordogne, France - The site of well known cave paintings that are 16,000 years old. As an archaeology student I read about them and see photos of them all the time and it would be awesome to experience it first hand.
4.) Olduvai Gorge, Great Rift Valley, Tanzania - It's known as the "Cradle of Mankind" so I would love to go there to see where, as a human, I came from. Also I might stubble onto a giant, black, monolith.
5.) Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park, Northern Territory, Australia - I have always wanted to see a sunset on Uluru (Aryes Rock) since I hear it's pretty amazing by the few family friend who have been there. Plus it is a big ass rock in the middle of the desert, if that doesn't scream an awesome time I do not know what does.
6.) Galapagos National Park, Galápagos Islands, Ecuador - This is another place I have dreamed of going since I've been a little kid, it's so remote and there are so many interesting wildlife species on it.
7.) Stanley, Falkland Islands, United Kingdom - I've always wanted to visit one of those island chains off the southern coast of South America and since the Falkland's are rich in military history and they are supposed to have some amazing golf courses count me in.
8.) Þingvellir National Park, Reykjanesskagi, Iceland - I think probably the number one place that I have to see before I kick it is Iceland. The more I think about the more I regret not going there when I was in Europe this past summer. Someday. I'm trying to convince Kate if we get married that would make an awesome honeymoon. Þingvellir sticks out to me because of the geological history but it is also the site of the oldest parliamentary government in the world, the Althing.
9.) Prague, Czech Republic - Everything I have ever seen or read about this city makes me want to go there: the castle, the Astronomical Clock, and the tower with the babies on it.
10.) Dubai City, UAE - It's the pinnacle of excess in modern human civilisation and it would be an awesome place to go to see how the truly rich live their lives.
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I’m uncomfortably cold right now, and it’s 53°.
