My Travel Bucket List

1. My Travel Bucket List Kristi Reid November 13, 2014

2. Great Barrier Reef The first destination on my bucket list is the Great Barrier Reef. The Great Barrier Reef contains the world’s largest coral reef and is one of the seven natural wonders of the world. It stretches for more than 2,000 kilometers and contains over 3,000 individual reef systems and coral cays. Evidence of coral ‘skeleton’ deposits can be dated back to half a million

3. Great Barrier Reef (continued) years ago. I have never been scuba diving and I think this would be the perfect place to do it.

4. Great Barrier Reef

5. Eiffel Tower The second place I would like to visit is the Eiffel Tower. The Eiffel Tower design was entered into a contest to be the centerpiece of the 1889 World’s Fair by French architect Stephen Sauvestre, and the engineer who it is named after, Gustave Eiffel. When they found out they had won the contest, they started construction in July of 1887. Some people in Paris did not

6. Eiffel Tower (continued) like the idea of having a huge building and lots of construction going on in front of their houses. After the construction ended in 1889 however people could not be more excited of the outcome in the city. In all the Eiffel Tower is a total of 1,063 feet tall and weighs around 10,000 tonnes. It is one of the top tourist attractions in Paris.

7. Eiffel Tower

8. Leaning Tower of Pisa The Leaning Tower of Pisa is the third oldest building on the Cathedral Square (Piazza Del Duomo) in Pisa,Italy. Although we know it to be leaning it was not always that way. The structure stood for 5 years. After the addition to the third floor, it began to lean. The clay that was used to build the tower was not strong enough to hold The weight of the tower right

9. Leaning Tower of Pisa (continued) side up. The government stopped the construction for 100 years hoping that it would begin to straighten. The entire process has taken over 800 years to finish. The construction started in 1173 and was “completed” in 1350 but modifications have been added since then. I think the history of the Leaning Tower of Pisa is so interesting and I would love to visit it in person.

10. Leaning Tower of Pisa

11. Great Wall of China The Great Wall of China was built by Qin Shi Huangdi (the first emperor of China during the Qin Dynasty) over 2,000 years ago. After uniting China the emperor extended and connected four old walls along north of China that originated over 2,500 years ago. It starts across the mountains of north China, and goes down to north and northwest of Beijing.

12. Great Wall of China (continued) It was over 5,000 kilometers long after the Ming Dynasty however, it was enlarged to 6,400 kilometers. It is the largest construction project ever completed. It is also one of the seven wonders of the Medieval World. China is a country I have always wanted to visit a the Great Wall of China is one of the reasons why.

13. Great Wall of China

14. Anne Frank Museum The Anne Frank Museum is the house where Anne Frank and her family along with the Van Pels family and Fritz Pfeffer hid from the Germans for more than two years. The annex where they hid was concealed behind a bookcase constructed for that purpose. The museum is not exactly how it was when Anne lived there, but it is filled with lots of information

15. Anne Frank Museum (continued) about the house and that time period. It holds quotations from Anne’s diary that she wrote while in hiding and other things such as historical documents, paragraphs and film images. I have always been interested in autobiographies of people in WW2. I would love to find out more about Anne’s diary and her family. I think this museum would be the

16. Anne Frank Museum (continued) perfect place.

17. Anne Frank Museum