50 Things You Need To Add To Your Bucket List In Malta
Ever since Morgan Freeman and Jack Nicholson made being terminally ill the most powerful bonding activity in their 2007 flick – The Bucket List, people all around the world have been composing their own set of aspirational life-goals.
Well if you’re short on time and can’t be bothered to make you own list, fret not. You too can be a part of this things-to-do-before-I-die marathon thanks to this, our Ultimate Malta Bucket List.
We’ve listed 50 things you NEED to be doing this year in Malta. Here goes.
1. Make a virtual bouquet of Malta’s indigenous flowers/shrubs by taking pictures of them and posting on social media
2. Dive into the big hole at Aħrax tal-Mellieħa
3. Learn a Maltese poem by heart
4. Learn how to make bizilla
5. Cycle from the northernmost end of the island to the southern tip
6. Swim at Mistra Bay on the first day of spring
7. Collect snails and prepare a bowl of traditional Maltese bebbux
8. Find out your whole family lineage (shouldn’t be too hard, just ask nanna)
9. Trek down to Mġiebaħ Bay for a swim with your dog
10. Take that iconic Dwejra photo… without the window #tragic
11. Watch sunset from the Red Tower (or any of these other sunset destinations)
12. Trek down to Fomm Ir-Riħ for a picnic
13. Swim all around Comino’s perimeter
14. Write an email to an old teacher who changed your life
15. Go kayaking in Gozo
16. Go swimming in Slug’s Bay at dawn
17. Finally visit the Mdina Dungeons
18. Have a Kinnie-based cocktail party
19. Visit the Ħal Saflieni Hypogeum
20. Have afternoon tea at Palazzo Parisio
21. Go to the top floor of the Portomaso tower
22. Bake your own loaf of Maltese bread
23. Dive into the other big hole – in Dwejra
24. Attend your own village feast
25. Make qaqoċċ mimli
26. Hike around Malta without going home for breaks (i.e. there will be camping involved)
27. Visit an agritourism farm in Gozo
28. Swim from Balluta to Exiles
29. Play a game of boċċi in a traditional club
30. Eat a ħobża at Seaview Cafe, Mellieħa
31. Organise a fenkata for all your cousins
32. Fart in the Barrakka Lift
33. Eat all the Sunshine Snacks in one sitting
34. Organise a local wine-tasting night (as in, with only Maltese wine)
35. Swim in the smaller hole at Delimara
36. Get your diving license (Malta’s the best place for it)
37. Make home-made pastizzi
38. Pick a village you’ve never visited and walk around it
39. Find a place that still serves tea in a glass (te fit-tazza) and go there for tea
40. Go swimming at Ġnejna Bay at dusk
41. Go and watch an opera in Gozo
42. Take part in a protest about a local issue
43. Buy a work of art from a local artist
44. Visit Għadira’s nature reserve
45. Make some home-made bigilla for your next dinner party
46. Get a boyfriend or girlfriend whose parents your mum doesn’t know
47. Brew your own local craft beer
48. Visit Għar Dalam and take a cave selfie
49. Buy ten postcards from villages in Malta and send to ten friends abroad
50. Shake hands with the President
What’s on your Malta bucket list? Tell us in the comments. Let’s make this the most epic list in history!
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