The final numbers

Yes, it’s the moment you’ve all been waiting for!! The final statistics of the whole trip!

But first of all let’s start with the stats for the final leg – officially known as ‘Stage 5’ – which was Panama City to Mexico City.

Here they are:

Countries visited: 8 (Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, Belize, Mexico)
Distance travelled by bus: 6,350km
Number of buses/minivans/colectivos taken: 52
Average length of bus journey: 122km
Distance travelled by boat: 65km
Days taken: 102 days (21 March  2019 – 30 June 2019)
Country breakdown:
Panama – 10 days
Costa Rica – 23 days
Nicaragua – 6 days
El Salvador – 12 days
Honduras – 3 days
Guatemala – 12 days
Belize – 4 days
Mexico – 32 days

Number of overnight stops: 30
Different accommodations stayed in: 32

So on the final leg of the journey we stayed an average of ONLY 3.4 nights in each location… yes, we picked up the pace and CANED it through Central America at high speed…

Other averages were 5.28 nights per stop for stage 4 – Lima to Medellín, 4.66 nights per stop for stage 3 – Santiago to Lima, 4.48 nights per stop for stage 2 – Buenos Aires to Santiago, and 3.44 nights per stop for stage 1 –Santiago to Buenos Aires.

And so now we have the stats for the entire trip:

Countries visited: 17
Distance travelled by bus: 43,038km
Distance travelled by boat: 2,365km
Distance travelled by 4WD: 675km
Distance travelled by train: 80km
Distance travelled on foot: 35km
Distance travelled by plane: 300km
TOTAL DISTANCE travelled (except for return flights to Galapagos): 46,493km

At this moment I will point out that of course we have actually covered much more distance than this because of the various day trips that we have taken…. these totals represent the official ‘continuous overnight stays journey‘ – yes, I know I just made that term up… 🙂 But stats are meant to be part made up.. right? 🙂

Days taken: 724 days (07 July 17 – 30 Jun 19) (just under 2 years)
Country breakdown:
Chile – 113 days (just under 4 months)
Argentina – 135 days (4.5 months)
Paraguay – 14 days
Brazil – 41 days (1.5 months)
Uruguay – 20 days
Bolivia – 83 days (3 months)
Peru – 78 days (2.5 months)
Ecuador – 82 days (3 months)
Colombia – 56 days (2 months)
Panama – 10 days
Costa Rica – 23 days
Nicaragua – 6 days
El Salvador – 12 days
Honduras – 3 days
Guatemala – 12 days
Belize – 4 days
Mexico – 32 days (1 month)

Number of buses/minivans/colectivos taken: 214 (doesn’t include day trips)
Average length of bus journey: 201km
Number of overnight location stops: 169
Different accommodations stayed in: 195 (including night buses, ferry, and tapir hide)
Average stay per overnight location stop: 4.28 days

Number of clock changes: 13

And yes, although the blog is nearly finished – of course it isn’t quite…. the following statistics are yet to be ‘officially’ confirmed…

Different bird species seen:
Different animal species seen: