116 days later...

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We're here, we made it - overland from Buenos Aires to Caracas in 4 months, more or less on or following the world's largest mountain range.

When we've been sat waiting for hours at bus terminals we devised a way to amuse ourselves and here are the results...

We have:

• Visited 8 countries
  
• Been to the world's driest dessert
  
• Been to the world's largest and highest salt flats
  
• Visited one of the seven wonders of the world
  
• Crossed the equator (stood on it, hopped over it, straddled it)
  
• Been from zero meters above sea level to 5,012m above
  
• Endured temperatures ranging from -15C to +32C
  
• Been 9 weeks without a single drop of rain
  
• Not been sick on a single bus (although its got close a few times)
  
• Been bought coffee by one set of police and offered a hot dog from another
  
• Only lost Marie's cloth sunglasses cover
  
• Used everything we packed in our rucksacks

We have travelled on:
* 106 buses
* 36 taxis (usually because the bus terminal is out of town)
* 2 4x4's
* 1 bike
* 8 boats (1 as part of the journey)
* 4 metro systems
* 2 horses
* 3 trains
* 2 trucks
* 1 kayak
* hitchhiked once
* 1 shared taxi
* once on foot (as part of the journey)

We have slept in:

• 47 hotels/hostels/posadas etc, including 3 love motels (that we know of)
  
• 11 night buses
  
• 1 tent
  
• 1 salt hotel
  
• 1 refuge
  
• 1 train
  
• 2 homestays
  
• 1 jungle camp
  
• 1 set of hammocks

We need a holiday!!!!

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Photos

Our route
(bit rough!)