Frozen ocean

Take a picturesque valley, scatter a dozen tumbling waterfalls around the edges and then plunk a giant piece of blue ice right in the middle. That's Franz Joseph glacier.

It looks small from far away, but it is in fact huge - over 400 square miles and constantly changing. It's looks like an ocean, frozen in the middle of a huge storm.

And I got to walk on it,

climb through its ice caves,

and dip my hands in its cool blue pools.

It was truly one of the most amazing experiences I've ever had. Granted, this is the girl who gets excited by frozen puddles on the ground in Brooklyn. But this was one damn impressive frozen puddle.