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“Bucket List” Travel Destinations

"The Bucket List" is the first big-screen work by screenwriter Justin Zackman. “The truth is that the locations in the film — the pyramids, the Taj Mahal, Everest and the Great Wall of China — are all destinations on my own personal bucket list,” he says in an e-mail. So what's the approximate cost of going to all the destinations in the movie? About $105,730 for two, according to our calculations. Here's how some of the trip costs break down.

“The Bucket List” is the first big-screen work by screenwriter Justin Zackman. “The truth is that the locations in the film — the pyramids, the Taj Mahal, Everest and the Great Wall of China — are all destinations on my own personal bucket list,” he says in an e-mail.


So what’s the approximate cost of going to all the destinations in the movie? About $105,730 for two, according to our calculations. Here’s how some of the trip costs break down.  (Gary Friedman / Los Angeles Times)

Pyramids of Egypt


The two buddies seem to spend only enough time for a heart-to-heart conversation in Giza, Egypt, but you may want to visit for 10 days to tour the pyramids, stay at the Four Seasons Hotel in Cairo and take a four-night cruise on the Nile.


Price: $4,335 per person (not including airfare), Abercrombie & Kent’s Signature Egypt trip.
Info: (800) 554-7016, www.abercrombiekent.com  (Hasan Jamali / Associated Press)

Taj Mahal

No reason to rush through India just to see the Taj Mahal. A 12-day private trip starts in Delhi and takes you through Jaisalmer, the pink stone city of Jodhpur and Udaipur before going to Agra to spend time at the 17th century mausoleum.


Price: $4,795 per person (first-class) or $6,795 per person (deluxe), not including airfare, for Wilderness Travel’s India Private Journey.
Info: (800) 368-2794, www.wildernesstravel.com
  (Scott Kraft / Los Angeles Times)

Mount Everest

In the movie, there are only glimpses of a high-altitude monastery where a view of Mt. Everest is obscured by bad weather.


It’s a trek-in-only adventure to get to the Tenboche Monastery in the Himalayas, a beacon of high spirituality where Everest climbers (left) typically stop for a blessing on the way to the world’s highest peak. Barbara Banks, head of new trip development at Wilderness Travel in Berkeley, Calif., says plenty of buddies sign up for the trek to Tengboche, where, with luck, you’ll see Everest. “It holds so many things for people looking for a life-altering journey,” she said.


Price: 14-day trek, $2,695 per person (not including airfare).
Info: (800) 368-2794, www.wildernesstravel.com  (Suolang Luobu / Associated Press)

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The Great Wall of China

In the movie, the buddies careen along the Great Wall on a motorcycle, but the outfitters we called said this is a major no-no. Steve Xu, president of Champion Holidays, once arranged for a high school jazz band from Arizona to play a concert on the wall, but special permission is required for any wall-related functions, he says.


Price: Starting at $1,299 (airfare included), a nine-day China Discovery tour includes a visit to the wall and other attractions in Beijing, Suzhou and Shanghai.


Info: (800) 868-7658, www.china-discovery.com  (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)

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