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Bucket List, Travel Inspiration · March 9, 2022

101 Adventurous & Crazy Bucket List Ideas for Adrenaline Seekers

101 Crazy Bucket List Ideas: An Adventurous Bucket List for Adrenaline Seekers
101 Crazy Bucket List Ideas: An Adventurous Bucket List for Adrenaline Seekers
101 Crazy Bucket List Ideas: An Adventurous Bucket List for Adrenaline Seekers
101 Crazy Bucket List Ideas: An Adventurous Bucket List for Adrenaline Seekers
101 Crazy Bucket List Ideas: An Adventurous Bucket List for Adrenaline Seekers
101 Crazy Bucket List Ideas: An Adventurous Bucket List for Adrenaline Seekers
101 Crazy Bucket List Ideas: An Adventurous Bucket List for Adrenaline Seekers
101 Crazy Bucket List Ideas: An Adventurous Bucket List for Adrenaline Seekers
101 Crazy Bucket List Ideas: An Adventurous Bucket List for Adrenaline Seekers
101 Crazy Bucket List Ideas: An Adventurous Bucket List for Adrenaline Seekers

We love a good bucket list. In our opinion, everyone should make a list of crazy bucket list ideas to try at least once in your lifetime.

The goal with these crazy ideas for a bucket list is to give you a ton of inspiration so you can pick and choose the ones that resonate with you to come up with your own adventurous bucket list!

We’ve created so many bucket lists over the years, most of which are generally based around our travels. From destination bucket lists, to our very-popular Ultimate Travel Bucket List! They are the ultimate travel inspiration tool! (We’ve also got a few bucket lists for you to download at the end of this article).

If you’ve landed on this page looking for some inspiration, then we’ve got you sorted. We’ve done a little brainstorming to come up with some fun, adrenaline-packed, and some totally insane bucket list ideas. We’ve managed to tick off quite a few, but there are some we are still yet to try (and even a few that are beyond our capability)!

From the extreme to the downright wacky, here are 101 bucket list ideas for the crazy and seriously adventurous at heart! 

These crazy bucket list ideas are sure to get you out of your comfort zone!

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  • 101 Crazy Ideas for a Bucket List
    • Adrenaline Bucket List Ideas
    • Crazy Bucket List Ideas involving Heights
    • Extreme Bucket List Ideas
    • Crazy Bucket List Ideas with Animals
    • Adventurous Bucket List Ideas involving Travel
    • Other Adventure Bucket List Ideas
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101 Crazy Ideas for a Bucket List

Adrenaline Bucket List Ideas

Are you an adrenaline junkie? Or perhaps you just love the thrill of trying something you wouldn’t normally dare to do. The following adrenaline-packed bucket list ideas are not overly extreme (you’ll find those are further down the list). But they are sure to get your heart-pumping!

Here are some ideas to add to your adrenaline bucket list that will most certainly get you out of your comfort zone:

  1. Go ski touring
  2. Go whitewater rafting
  3. Try canyoning 
  4. Try a hydrofoil surfboard 
  5. Descend into an ice cave
  6. Go dune bashing on an ATV in the desert
  7. Plunge into the ocean in a submarine
  8. Take an ice dip
  9. See a live volcanic eruption
  10. Learn how to surf
  11. Try white water rafting
  12. Drive a race car around a Formula One track
  13. Descend inside a volcano
  14. Go diving inside a shipwreck (or plane wreck)
  15. Learn how to free dive 
  16. See a glacier calving
  17. Try glacier hiking
  18. Have dinner in the sky
  19. Go cave diving
  20. Try jet boating 
10 Iceland Travel Tips for First time visitors. This guide contains all the tips and tricks you need to know before your first time in Iceland, including costs, visiting in summer or winter, how much time you’ll need, road trip info. You’ll also find info on things to do and tips on how to see the Northern Lights, visiting the blue lagoon, the Golden Circle, waterfalls, glaciers, best hotels, hot springs, vik, Icelandic horses and much more.

Crazy Bucket List Ideas involving Heights

Wanting to conquer a few of heights? Or maybe you just love the thrill of jumping off a tall building or out of plane. Here are some crazy ideas for a bucket list that will absolutely get the adrenaline pumping! 

  1. Go heli-skiing
  2. Learn to fly a plane 
  3. Go cliff jumping
  4. Go bungee jumping
  5. Rappel down a waterfall
  6. Try out acrobatics
  7. Try ice climbing
  8. Take a sunrise hot air balloon ride
  9. Go skydiving
  10. Climb an active volcano 
  11. Go zip lining through the jungle
  12. Try snowmobiling
Cliff jumping into turquoise waters in waimea bay, North Shore Oahu, Hawaii

Extreme Bucket List Ideas

Looking for something a little more extreme? Here’s a small list of the most extreme bucket list ideas in the world that are only for the most adventurous at heart. 

Word of Warning: These are the craziest bucket list ideas we could think of, and some can get very risky and generally require a high level of skill and years of training. Unfortunately, because of this, we have never actually done any of these activities ourselves because they are a little beyond our capability and what our stomach could handle! So, it has to be mentioned that if you decide to partake in any of these extreme bucket list ideas, you do so entirely at your own risk!

  1. Climb an Eight-Thousander or all 14 of them! (There are 14 peaks in the world above 8000 feet high)
  2. Experience a wing suit flight 
  3. Go cliff diving
  4. Do a marathon (or an Ironman)
  5. Try free soloing (rock climbing without ropes)
  6. Climb the highest summit on each continent 
  7. Try wing walking
  8. Take a flight into space
Kangaroo on the beach at Lucky Bay - a must on anyones Australia bucket list

Crazy Bucket List Ideas with Animals

Love animals? So do we. Some of our favourite adventurous bucket list ideas involve getting up close and personal with wild animals (in a safe manner, of course).

Word of Warning: We love ticking off bucket list items just as much as we love animals. So, we strongly encourage you to ensure these activities at carried out in a humane way before participating in them!

  1. See a herd of elephants in the wild
  2. Ride a camel through the Sahara
  3. See a tiger in the wild
  4. Go diving with Great White Sharks
  5. Do swimming with crocodiles in Australia
  6. Go gorilla trekking in Uganda
  7. Swim with dolphins in the wild
  8. Go dog sledding
  9. Go swimming with humpback whales 
  10. Cosy up to penguins in Antarctica 
  11. Hang out with wild orangutans in Malaysia 
  12. Swim with whale sharks
  13. See a polar bear in the wild
  14. Diving with manta rays
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Adventurous Bucket List Ideas involving Travel

Most adventurous bucket list ideas involve travel of some kind. And because Bucket List Seekers is a couples travel bucket list blog, this list of crazy bucket list ideas would not be complete without throwing in a few once-in-a-lifetime travel experiences. 

We’ve got bucket lists for epic destinations like Hawaii, Iceland, Italy, Bali and more. But out of all our travels, these are the adventure travel bucket list ideas that we recommend the most (plus a few that we cannot wait to tick off our own travel bucket list!):

  1. Spend a night in the Ice Hotel
  2. Take a mystery flight to somewhere random
  3. Visit every country in the world
  4. Swim to the edge of Victoria Falls
  5. Stand on the North Pole
  6. Stand on the South Pole
  7. Stand at the top of the Burj Khalifa (tallest building in the world)
  8. Hike Mount Hua in China – the world’s most dangerous hike!
  9. Go camping in Antarctica 
  10. Fly somewhere in First Class
  11. Mountain bike along Death Road in Bolivia
  12. Ride in a helicopter over the Great Barrier Reef
  13. Eat at the underwater restaurant in the Maldives
  14. Stay in an overwater bungalow in Bora Bora
  15. Sail around the world 
  16. Attend La Tomatina in Spain
  17. Join the Songkran water fight in Thailand
  18. Visit all 7 wonders of the world 
  19. Dive between two continents in Iceland
  20. Attend a Burning Man festival 
  21. Trek the Kokoda trail
  22. Wear an animal onesie around Tokyo for a day
  23. Visit the DMZ
  24. Travel solo to a foreign country
  25. Go the the Holi Festival of Colours in India
  26. Road trip around Australia
  27. Hike to Everest base camp
  28. Visit all 7 continents

Feeling inspired? Here are 10 amazing destinations you must add to your Travel Bucket List!

10 Iceland Travel Tips for First time visitors. This guide contains all the tips and tricks you need to know before your first time in Iceland, including costs, visiting in summer or winter, how much time you’ll need, road trip info. You’ll also find info on things to do and tips on how to see the Northern Lights, visiting the blue lagoon, the Golden Circle, waterfalls, glaciers, best hotels, hot springs, vik, Icelandic horses and much more.

Other Adventure Bucket List Ideas

While the following crazy bucket list ideas are not based around travel, or extreme activities, they are a list of things to achieve in your life that are still considered a little ‘crazy’ or ‘unattainable’ by most people’s standards. 

We felt that this list of adventure bucket list ideas just wouldn’t be complete without including these:

  1. Learn another language
  2. Go skinny dipping
  3. See the Northern Lights (Aurora Borealis)
  4. See the Southern Lights (Aurora Australis)
  5. Compete in an Olympic Games
  6. Get your name into the Guinness Book of World Records
  7. Host a murder mystery party 
  8. Sleep under the stars
  9. Get scuba certified
  10. Say ‘YES’ to everything for a day
  11. Join a flash mob
  12. Move to another country
  13. Experience a silent disco
  14. Try SUP yoga
  15. Sleep in an igloo
  16. Spend a night in a castle
  17. Get a tattoo
  18. Write a book
  19. Quit your job 
  20. Live debt free!
How many of these crazy bucket list ideas can you tick off?

Have we missed something? Can you recommend any other crazy ideas for a bucket list to our readers? Leave your recommendations in the comments below!


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