City Bucket List

The least populated capital in the world - a domed capitol on a hill in Melekeok, built in 2006 for a few hundred people.

The gateway to the salt flat, the train cemetery and three-day jeep trips to the coloured lagoons.

Tasmania's second city: the Cataract Gorge in the middle of town and the Tamar valley wineries.

Southern right whales in the bay from June to December, and the Peninsula Valdes wildlife.

The castle and the Door of No Return of the Atlantic slave trade, and Kakum's canopy walkway inland.

Rebuilt entirely in Art Deco after the 1931 earthquake, in the Hawke’s Bay wine region.

A ten-kilometre beach on the Atlantic, rebuilt modern after the 1960 earthquake, and the Paradise Valley behind.

The base for Kuelap, the cloud-forest fortress, and the Gocta waterfall.

A sleepy Portuguese town, and Tofo beach with whale sharks and manta rays all year.

A living Inca town with its original street grid and terraces, the train station for Machu Picchu.

The town for the Perito Moreno glacier, where ice walls collapse into the lake all day.

Coffee farms and the wax palms of the Cocora valley in a bright-painted Quindio town.

The resort bay of the north: catamarans to the islands, snorkelling and the nightlife of the island.

Dhow trips to the Bazaruto archipelago, dugongs and dune islands in turquoise water.

Port Elizabeth: the Friendly City of beaches and the elephants of Addo park, the end of the Garden Route.

The oldest city in Colombia, the beaches of Tayrona park and the trek to the Lost City.

A Roman amphitheatre for 35,000 rising out of a small town, better preserved than the Colosseum.

The biggest indigenous market in South America every Saturday, textiles and the Kichwa highlands.

The Python Temple and the Route des Esclaves to the beach, the birthplace of voodoo.

A colonial town on the Orinoco narrows, the departure point for flights over Angel Falls.

The lake of flamingos and rhinos on the doorstep, in the Rift Valley two hours from Nairobi.

The Andalusian capital of the Maghreb: the Great Mosque, the Mansourah ruins and the El Mechouar palace.

The source of the Nile, grade-five rafting and bungee jumping over the river.

A hilltop colonial town of churches and artists, with the giant puppets of its Carnival.

The main town of the Galapagos, the Darwin research station and giant tortoises in the highlands.

Djerba's main town: whitewashed souks, the El Ghriba synagogue and Star Wars sets across the island.

The highest and longest cable car in the world, up to 4,765 metres in the Andes.

The 27-metre mud minaret of the 16th-century mosque and the Tuareg gateway to the Sahara.

The Blue Hole, freediving on the Bedouin beach and Mount Sinai at sunrise an hour away.

German-style houses on Lake Llanquihue under the perfect cone of Osorno volcano.