Some singular experiences on your annual must-see-and-do list can be pushed indefinitely. Other things you may want to upgrade to the “rush order” file. The following five experiences may or may not be your cup of tea (or uncorporatized coffee). But they all officially belong in that latter category and shouldn’t be put off much longer, if at all.
1. Catch Tokyo’s Tsukiji Fish Market before it’s gutted
The 1,200-stall, hangar-style building on Tokyo Bay, packed to the gills with frenzied fishmongers and wholesalers bartering over 2,000-plus tons of marine meat every day, is also one of the city’s biggest tourist magnets — reeling in thousands of early-morning spectators to watch tuna auctions and wonder how a single ocean can support such a vast place. Put off a trip to this must-see seafood scene for another year and you’ll be attending a newer, bigger, brighter, cleaner version of the Tsukiji experience, with orderly observation decks and a bonus concession of on-site fruit and vegetable wholesalers. Not exactly the photo op of a lifetime.
2. Fly to the next Rolling Stones concert (if there is one)
Did The Stones perform their final concert on December 15, 2012? Nah. But maybe. But probably not. It’s possible, though. That was the big question posed by Rolling Stone magazine and the rock ‘n’ roll twittersphere on December 16, after the longest performing rock band in history capped its 50th anniversary tour with a blowout, ambiguous grand finale concert in Newark, New Jersey.
If there was any doubt that these wrinkly rock legends are messing with us, the band flashed a “Coachella 2013” tour update on its mobile app — pointing fans to their next blowout finale in Indio, California in April — before yanking it. Bottom line, if seeing this diehard band live is something you’ll regret not doing at some point in your life, you may want to stay tuned and not put it off for another 50 years.
3. Save the Maldives (or at least see them)
Oceans have risen by about eight inches since 1870, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and the pace is only picking up say top climate scientists. Who’s taking the biggest hit while those global-warming forecasts and doom debates rage on? Remote, low-lying islands in the middle of nowhere. New reports that rising ocean level rates may be exceeding our worst expectations — “”We are decades ahead of schedule,” IPCC scientist Michael Mann recently told the Guardian — come in the wake of an announcement by former Maldivian president Mohammed Nasheed that the Maldives will become carbon neutral by 2020.
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