Thanks for all of your entries - but we've chosen a winner who will be sent all 25 new Rough Guides in its Ultimate Travel Experiences series: She is Rhea Williams of Ipswich and this is her story:

"We were driving around the periphery of Iceland in a big, fat, red Sharon with a couple of friends. At every turn, every bend in the road there was a new 'something' to ooh or aagh at; a black flatness to the horizon, a vista of lava fields as far as the eye could see, the road being repaired infront of us, quite literally, a total absence of trees.

But nothing, nothing prepared us for the quiet beauty of the majestic, ancient iceburgs of Jokul Sarlon. There must have been 20 of us in the rubber 'Frog', all in lifejackets and clutching cameras. As we floated on the cold, still water at the foot of the glacier, the only sound to be heard was the groaning and creaking of the expanding and breaking ice, and then the collective 'aaaaagh' as we spied yet another fabulous 'burg.

This has to have been the most beautiful of sights and experiences in a whole lifetime of travelling and seeing wonderful things. That serenity and majesty is not to be missed.

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