2025 Travel Bucket List ✈️

This time last year, I was perched on my sofa planning out my trips for 2024, and here I am again, planning out my 2025 travel bucket list. It’s weird to think that in a few short weeks, we will be leaving 2024 behind and starting 2025. I am both excited and nervous about 2025 because not only do I get to live out my 2025 travel bucket list countries, I am embarking on the fifth and final year of my 5-year financial plan I set in motion back in 2021, but the latter is for another blog post.

As an avid traveller, I live by the Dalai Lama’s quote “Every year, go someplace you’ve never been before” and I have been doing that for almost 9 years now and best believe my 2025 travel bucket list will reflect that too, God willing. But if you know anything about me, you will know that I love repeating destinations that I either loved exploring or potentially giving a second chance. In my 2024 travel bucket list post, I shared 8 destinations I wanted to visit and majority were new destinations to me.

*Disclosure – this is a collaborative post, all opinions shared are my own.

2025 Travel Bucket List ✈️

As I prepare to board my flight for my last overseas trip for 2024, I can’t help but feel nostalgic about how far I have come in terms of travel. I have been solo travelling since 2016 but as I have mentioned on these pages before, I did not come from a family that travelled often. Travel was a privilege for us and this is still true today but I also mentioned how, once I was financially comfortable I embarked on this beautiful journey and never looked back.

I have been to over 51 countries across the globe and flown to many European and Asian destinations multiple times, and I feel like I am only beginning. One thing I have yet to do and have been wanting to try for the last couple of years is ‘going on a cruise’. My friends and I have been considering going on a cruise for a while now, and finally, I decided to go with or without them. If you, too, are thinking about choosing your 2025 cruise, then gather here as I am too excited I can not contain my job. But, before I can get to go on a cruise, I need to figure out my 2025 travel bucket list first.

The following destinations have been on one or more travel bucket lists I have curated in the past, and I am hoping 2025 will be the year I get to finally tick them off. I have learned how to take 58 days off even when you only get 28 days of annual leave at work, thankfully I get 30 days so I will be taking full advantage.

• Europe
  • Bologna, Italy
  • Sofia, Bulgaria
  • Antwerp, Belgium
  • Krakow, Poland
  • Tallin, Estonia
  • Riga, Latvia
  • Cork, Ireland
• Africa
  • Zanzibar, Tanzania
  • Victoria Falls, Zambia
  • Cape Town, South Africa
• Americas
  • Hawaii, USA
  • Cancun, Mexico
• Asia
  • Taiwan
  • Cambodia
  • Philippines

Although I know I will most likely be able to do a lot of these places next year, I have pulled them all from my existing travel buckets, and my current goal is to visit all these places before I am 40. I was re-reading my 30 before 30 travel bucket list, and I realised how much I enjoyed visiting every single country. I have decided that for 2025, I will revive my love for #take12trips in 12 months. This was a great motivator back in the day, and now I want to revive it and do it again, and who knows, I might just do a cruise.