Galapagos Islands
Ecuador
A marine iguana sneezes salt water on your shoe and then ignores you completely. That is the Galapagos in a sentence. Animals here have no fear of humans, which means a blue-footed booby will land a metre away and go about its business while you stare. The islands are volcanic, raw, and not particularly beautiful in a conventional sense. The wildlife is the landscape.
South America$3500-4000