Some very places that are on my radar for future trips:

The Dolomite mountains, Italy

Very unusual shapes, because these are eroded uplifted coral deposits!

Cinque Terre, Northwestern coast of Italy

Plitvice Lakes Park, south of Zagreb, in Croatia:

Plitvice from Mel Malinowski on Vimeo.

Petra, Jordan

 

Mongolia

 

Cuba

 

Patagonia (again)

Torres del Paine (Blue Towers) National Park, Chile

 

Iceland

Iceland

 

Bolivia

 

North Cascades, Washington State, USA

Some places now are in the blog. More to come.

 

Kazakhstan

Almaty

 

Tian Shan Mountains in Kyrgyzstan near Almaty, Kazakhstan

 

The Via Alpina trail system in Europe

I’ve already hiked some of the best of this, the ‘Haute Route’ from Chamonix, France to Zermatt, Switzerland, but there is much more.

3,000 miles of trail in the Alps     Detailed article

On May 29, 2026 we received ten year multiple entry visas to China. Our plan is to visit several times, for probably 3 weeks at a time, when we are in Thailand. Only one hour time difference means no jetlag! Our first tentative visit will be to southwestern China (Yunnan) in March of 2027, traveling by China’s incredible 50,000 km high speed rail network.