We’ve all obtained a bucket listing, however have you ever heard of an anti bucket listing? It is a reverse bucket listing, highlighting issues which can be often seen on folks’s lists of issues to do earlier than they die, however are literally belongings you don’t need to do…or do once more.
Many people have the identical issues on our bucket lists in terms of journey – go to Petra, hike to Macchu Picchu, or see the Colosseum in Rome, for instance.
Whereas these experiences are really memorable, what are experiences you actually don’t need to do in your travels? What do you by no means need to expertise once more?
We’ve been fascinated by this and determined it’s time we wrote the anti journey bucket listing – experiences that you simply completely don’t need in your journey bucket listing.
The Anti-Bucket Checklist: What NOT To Embrace On Your Journey Bucket Checklist
Journey isn’t all candy and simple. In reality, it’s very difficult and loads of exhausting work, which is why the rewards are all the time so nice.
Many issues can go flawed in your travels. Right here is my listing of journey experiences you DO NOT need to put in your journey bucket listing when planning your travels world wide.
1. Bus from Siem Reap to Phnom Penh
Many individuals journey to Siem Reap for the bucket listing expertise of seeing Angkor Wat, particularly at dawn.
Nevertheless, experiencing a 9 hour bus trip from Siem Reap to Phnom Penh, which finally ends up taking 24 hours and includes a number of flooded roads and collapsed bridges is the proper instance of an anti-bucket listing expertise.
The entire time you’re considering of your mates who selected to take the costlier, however stress-free, 4 hour boat journey or inside flight.
Typically a budget choices in terms of journey find yourself being the journey of nightmares, so it’s finest to pay slightly further for some further consolation.
2. Consuming ghost peppers in India
Go to India, and you may count on spicy meals. Even when your style buds can deal with the spice, you don’t need to get cocky and order the spiciest dish on the menu – particularly if that dish consists of the ghost pepper.
The ghost pepper is the most well liked pepper on the earth, and for individuals who usually are not used to spice, will discover it provides a complete new that means to the phrase “Dheli Stomach.”
When you worth your tender bodily orifices, and your abdomen can’t deal with the warmth, then don’t get cocky!
3. Experiencing US Immigration
We had the misfortunate state of affairs the place the US immigration misplaced our passports solely days earlier than our visa expired and we had been because of fly out. It was removed from supreme.
Everybody we speak to on the highway has a narrative about US immigration, whether or not it’s lengthy traces, vigorous questioning, or issues with visas.
We get that they’re simply doing their job, however there usually are not many individuals on the earth who’ve had a constructive expertise with immigration within the US, in order that they must be on our anti-bucket listing.
4. The boat trip from Bali to Lombok
The boat trip from Bali to Lombok is infamous for having very uneven surf.
Even if you happen to don’t get seasick, this boat trip will make your abdomen really feel such as you’re in a washer – and also you’ll have little pings of concern in your life.
Now think about “Bali Stomach” placing on the 4 hour boat trip from Bali to Lombok….
You spend the entire 4 hour journey in a 2×2 foot soiled boat bathroom.
Upon arrival your mates proceed to splurge out on low cost lobster and seafood and get drunk, whilst you drink tea with salt in it in an try and really feel considerably human.
5. Being charged at by animals in Africa
Go to Africa and go on a safari, you’ll like it. It’s a bucket listing second you’ll always remember.
That is true, there’s something magical about seeing animals within the wild, particularly in Africa.
Now think about if a Silverback gorilla charged at you within the jungles of Uganda! This truly occurred to us.
Really, so long as you’re not harm, this can be a fairly good story to inform.
When you’re eager about studying about our expertise being charged at by a gorilla, you possibly can examine it in our Uganda journey information.
It’s additionally frequent for elephants to cost at safari vehicles once they get too shut.
6. Trekking whenever you’re not bodily prepared in Indonesia
We love mountain climbing, and trekking in jungles and mountain climbing up mountains is a bucket listing expertise.
Not if you happen to’re chubby or extraordinarily unfit!
Going jungle trekking in Bukit Lawang, Sumutra, to see wild orangutans is among the most rewarding bucket listing moments.
Nevertheless, mountain climbing up and over 7 mountain peaks to a riverside campsite, sleeping on exhausting rocks that dig into your again, whereas issues crash round you within the jungle – is a reverse bucket listing second.
Your group chief sits up all evening subsequent to you with an enormous knife on tiger watch, (after he has informed you a great deal of shut encounter tales) and regardless of how exhausted you’re, sleep simply received’t come.
7. Getting caught in a cyclone in Australia
Being caught in any type of excessive climate is frightening, whether or not it’s a cyclone, a hurricane, or an earthquake.
We as soon as went to work on the Pearling Boats in Broome, Western Australia, simply after being informed the cyclone had handed and all was protected.
Solely it rotated unexpectedly and we obtained caught within the tail finish of a class 1 cyclone.
8. Meals poisoning in Laos
Laos is a superb nation stuffed with many bucket listing moments. Driving alongside the Mekong River in a wood boat, or seeing the Kuang Si Waterfall in Luang Prabang, are simply two examples of bucket listing experiences there.
Nevertheless, spending the day writhing round in your mattress, deathly sick from unhealthy seafood eaten on the late evening markets in Luang Prabang the earlier night – is an anti-bucket listing second.
9. Getting eaten alive by mosquitoes in Thailand
Thailand is certainly one of our favorite international locations, we love Thailand!
However this one time I had too many Thai whiskey buckets on Koh Phi Phi, handed out, and woke as much as nearly 100 mosquito bites!
I smothered them with calamine lotion in an try and ease the itch, after which went on an already organized snorkelling tour of the islands.
It was not an expertise I wish to have once more.
10. Dropping your digital digicam in Africa
Think about going to Africa, on all these safaris, and dropping your digital digicam with lots of of images and flicks on it!
That’s what occurred to us! We misplaced all these bucket listing images, together with these out of your time spent with the Gorillas in Uganda, whitewater rafting the Nile, and tenting with the Masai warriors in Kenya.
Sure they had been bucket listing experiences, however dropping your reminiscence of them, is an anti-bucket listing expertise.
11. Getting contaminated wounds in SE Asia
There’s nothing extra anti-bucket listing than having to chop your journey brief by having a mysterious an infection seem in your travels in Indonesia.
That is what occurred to me. We needed to reduce our SE Asia vacation brief and go to London with no mates, cash, job or place to remain, and with a membership for a foot.
12. Mattress bug infestations in hostels
Anyplace on the earth you would possibly encounter mattress bugs!
We had an infestation of mattress bugs in our London traveler’s home, and awakened one evening to see them operating down the partitions.
That was a nasty 12 months!
13. Your overland car breaking down in Europe
Overlanding Europe is a more moderen bucket listing expertise folks have been including to their lists, however what in case your overland car breaks? That’s a reverse bucket listing expertise!
There was a time once I was having the time of my life with girlfriends on a European campervan journey, and after in search of medical consideration for our van’s (Bert) current sickness, the Portuguese mechanic gave the analysis, “Bert lifeless. Higher off within the ocean.”
14. Getting tick chew fever in South Africa
Sooner or later I awakened in my tent in Cape City with an excruciatingly painful headache, and swollen joints.
I needed to depend on my husband to stroll me round till lastly the medical doctors understand I used to be affected by tick chew fever, and never the doable encephalitis he beforehand talked about!
15. Consuming an excessive amount of you get up in a random place
We’ve all accomplished it. Younger folks usually have these experiences on their travels.
The loopy hole 12 months that’s all about consuming and partying greater than in search of journey experiences. It’s an excuse to flee from peculiar life, however we’ve all been there.
There was a time when Craig and I drank far too many Vodka Purple Bull buckets at Nha Trang Crusing Membership in Vietnam, and as an alternative of strolling the block to our guesthouse at 2am, we determined it will be enjoyable to trip in a cyclo.
Craig and I each handed out, and awakened in the midst of a distant village, 4 hours away by bike, because the locals started establishing the morning market.
The vodka haze prevented our thoughts from determining what had occurred, the place we had been, the place we ought to be, and to do subsequent.
I burst into tears, and a small boy places on my fisherman’s pants and arms me my bank card.
A bike conveniently pulled as much as take us again to the one place we are able to vaguely keep in mind a phrase for, “The Crusing Membership.”
Boy am I glad that chapter of my life is over!
16. Breaking down in Africa
Once we had been travelling round East Africa, we determined to journey largely by public transport.
On our drive behind a rusty, crushed up choose up with 20 native Malawians, unexpectedly we really feel a bump and a grind and see the pick-ups wheel rolling down into the ditch beneath.
If you’re instantly caught within the African bush in a car with out a wheel, full blown panic units in!
Fortunately the locals had been used to this and had been fast to return to the rescue.
17. Restrooms in Zimbabwe
We as soon as stopped at a public bathroom in Zimbabwe, and I had a particularly pressed bladder, and rotated instantly after to see brown stuff smeared over the partitions, and ladies and kids climbing onto concrete pillars via the bathroom waste to do their enterprise in full view of these ready.
What’s worse is that the water lapping on the soles of your flip flops is de facto not water.
I feel I’ve stated an excessive amount of on this already.
18. Swimming within the Lifeless Sea
Having accomplished this expertise, I don’t know why folks put swimming within the Lifeless Sea on the bucket listing…certain, the salt focus makes you float, however have you considered the chance of an excessive amount of salt?
Swimming in that a lot salt can truly be worse in your pores and skin, and you probably have any open cuts or wounds…ouch!
When you get water within the eyes, or any delicate areas, it may be irritating and painful.
Personally, I’d depart this off the bucket listing and add it to the anti-bucket listing.
19. Disney Land in Orlando or LA on a weekend
Anybody planning to visit Disneyland in LA or Orlando on a weekend are principally signing up for a waste of time.
You’ll spend a 12 hour day standing in queues, sweat dripping down your brow within the warmth, and be compelled to eat common meals as a result of you possibly can’t convey meals in with you.
Nothing about this speaks pleasure to me so…on the anti bucket listing it goes!
20. Mardi Gras in New Orleans
Okay, this can be a double-edged sword for us, as we cherished our expertise of Mardi Gras in New Orleans, it was a wonderful lesson in cultural variety for our daughters and a joyous occasion throughout.
Nevertheless, some elements of New Orleans could be harmful, so if you’re planning on visiting for Mardi Gras, you want to be sure to keep on with the proper neighborhoods.
It’s additionally one thing you’ll solely need to do as soon as in your life, and I wouldn’t say it was a bucket listing second for me – not in comparison with seeing Gorillas in Uganda, for instance.
21. New 12 months’s Eve in New York Metropolis
Why oh why do folks nonetheless add this to their bucket listing? NYC throughout the vacation season is an total costly nightmare.
There’s far too many individuals, and lodges, eating places, bars, all the pieces, is way more costly.
It’s a nightmare getting on trains on the subway stations and also you spend your entire rely down for New 12 months standing shoulder to shoulder with a stranger, unable to maneuver, discover a rest room, and even get a drink.
On the finish of standing for 2 hours, when the ball lastly drops, your again ache is so robust you neglect to scream “Joyful New 12 months!”
That is an overrated expertise, and one positively for the anti bucket listing.
22. Bungee Leaping Bloukrans Bridge in South Africa
I might somewhat stroll into the fires of Hell than bungee bounce. There are just a few issues that usually are not for you.
For me, I think about bungee leaping to be a sudden drop of adrenaline, adopted by 10 minutes of yelling and screaming, and no enjoyment out of it.
Bloukrans Bridge is the best bridge bungee bounce on the earth, at 216 meters.
Nope!
23. Base leaping wherever
One other interest folks have, that I simply can’t perceive, is base leaping. That is whenever you placed on a wing go well with, additionally known as a squirrel go well with, and bounce off a cliff or someplace excessive.
It’s so harmful, that it’s truly unlawful to do in some states within the USA.
The chance of real damage is why I might add a base bounce to my anti bucket listing.
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What horror tales are you able to add to the listing?