5 Most Thrilling Trips For The Ultimate Adrenaline Junkie

Five thrilling trips for the ultimate adrenaline junkie. Just do it.

- Dilshad Master

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What’s with these ‘bucket lists anyway’? I mean, seriously. I find the whole concept vaguely macabre. Why would anyone create an I-want-to-go-here-before-I-die list of the most exotic, fantastic, adventurous, glamorous, romantic places? You’re thinking of death and your own mortality instead of looking forward to planning some amazing, life-changing experiences. You’re looking to ‘tick them off ’ your list, as if it were a list of groceries. Truly, there’s nothing drearier than that when it comes to travel.

So there’s no bucket list for me. I call it my ‘Just Do It List’. It’s a list which says, I’m going. You coming? It’s a list that says, “Take care of the baby for 10 days darling, while I take off on this amazing trip.” So here’s my Just Do It List; replicate, replenish or rewrite at will. Ready for some fine adventures.

CLIMB KILIMANJARO

It’s one of the “Seven Summits”, the highest peaks on the seven continents, and hence on every climber’s checklist. Not for me though. I have no intention of climbing the other six summits, not in this lifetime for sure. “Kili” (as many of us dreaming to summit it, lovingly call it) isn’t really a mountain in the strictest sense; it’s actually a dormant “stratovolcano”. Composed of alternate layers of lava and ash, built when the eruptions began about a million years ago, one of its volcanic cones is still considered “dormant”; it last erupted 360,000 years ago. Just imagine the history, the stories, the babble of voices this enigmatic mountain contains. That’s why I want to go there.