After six and a half months, and nine countries (sincere apologies to Paraguay and the Guyanas) we are at the end of the South American leg of our grand adventure. We have travelled thousands of kilometres on bus, boat, van, back of ute, on horse and foot through so many different landscapes and climates. And so what we're the highlights?? We'll it really is hard to narrow down to just a few! At the country scale, we seemed to take turns at having a favourite country. First I liked Brazil, and then Jen really liked Venezuela, then Colombia for me, Ecuador for Jen...and so on. But if we had to make a list, it might include the following: - Spotting countless varieties of birds and other wildlife in the Pantanal wetlands of inland Brazil - Lazing
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