ANTARCTICA

Of all the places we have visited, this one is perhaps the most special for us. My wife calls it the “Magical Place”. It is unlike anywhere else on Earth and thus it is impossible to compare it to any place you have ever been before.
When we first started to plan this trip, no one we spoke to could understand why we wanted to go there. “After all, it is cold, uninteresting landscape, monochrome white color. Nothing interesting lives there and there is nothing interesting to see or do there. Right?” WRONG!!
You don't have anything in your past experience to serve as a frame of reference for this place. Your concept of "huge" is irrelevant here. You cannot wrap your mind around the wonder how anything can survive in this environment.
If nothing else, the serenity of this vast continent is nearly overwhelming. Think of it; no fast food restaurants anywhere. No shopping malls- because, by International agreement, no commercialization of any kind is permitted. Less pollution than you will find anywhere else in the world, which permits you to look up into the sky and see more stars than you can possibly comprehend!
If that was not enough, there are a whole series of initiations, customs and rites of passage associated with landing in the Antarctic