Published: 04:08 PM, 20 May 2017 Last Update: 04:34 PM, 20 May 2017
Couple on honeymoon for months!
Sarah and Dimitri, from Belgium, set off to explore South America in November, after tying the knot in August. They have spent six months travelling through glacier lakes and rainforests in their wedding car, a 4x4 Toyota.
Sarah quit her job as a talent manager for the honeymoon while Dimitri is working as a digital nomad. A loved-up couple have been driving their 4x4 through stunning South America for their honeymoon – for months. And without a plan. And they have no idea when the trip will end.
Confident Dimitri O (yes, that really is his surname), 31, proposed to his now wife Sarah by showing her an online blog he had created to document their future honeymoon, which they embarked on last November.
Dimitri and Sarah pictured here in Machu Picchu
Not content with ten days by a pool, adventurous newlyweds Dimitri and Sarah, 29, have spent the past six months travelling through glacier lakes and rainforests in their wedding car, a Toyota Land Cruiser. Sarah here is in Perito Moreno, Argentina
Sarah and Dimitri, from Antwerp, Belgium, set off to explore the extreme and breath-taking landscapes of South America four months after they tied the knot in August. They're pictured here in Laguna Route, Bolivia
Sarah sacked in her job as a talent manager at a renewable energy supplier for the honeymoon while engineer Dimitri has been able to work on the go as a self-titled digital nomad.
Dimitri said: 'We flew into Buenos Aires November 8, 2016, so that's about six months now and we don't know when we'll end the trip'
Sarah said: 'Generally, we live day-by-day. Our original plan was to go from Ushuaia, Argentina to Montreal, Canada, but after roughly one-and-a-half months on the road and having reached Puerto Natalas in Chile we changed that plan'. The couple are pictured here in Pumalin in Chile
The global honeymoon has so far crossed through Uruguay, Argentina, Chile, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador and Colombia. They're pictured here at Rainbow Mountain in Peru
Dimitri said: 'We both love road trips and started to fantasise about a Pan-American overland trip.
'We worked until the last minute before the wedding to get the brakes fixed, just in time! It was Sarah's first time behind the wheel and she drove it to the ceremony, which was a big day for all of us.
'Somewhere in the summer of 2015 we decided we wanted to do the trip and gave ourselves roughly a year to prepare.
'And by preparing we mean only the car, we didn't plan the things to see and do in advance.
'We flew into Buenos Aires November 8th 2016, so that's about six months now and we don't know when we'll end the trip.
'We'll go back to Belgium when we run out of money, or when we'll feel like it, freedom is part of our experience.
'We were also thinking about getting kids and buy our own place but we also felt we had to do this big trip now, before having these attachments.'
It was only in November 2015 that Dimitri thought the trip of a lifetime would be fun to do it with his wife as a honeymoon rather than his girlfriend.
He created the website and logo for Global Honeymoon and proposed to Sarah using the blog he has set up based on their life story to date.
Sarah said: 'Generally, we live day-by-day. Our original plan was to go from Ushuaia, Argentina to Montreal, Canada, but after roughly one-and-a-half months on the road and having reached Puerto Natalas in Chile we changed that plan.
'Many have proven before us that you can ride the Pan-American Highway from south to north in roughly six months but that would mean doing a lot of kilometres every day and that was not the goal of our trip.
Dimitri relaxes in Cuyabeno, Ecuador - a stunning wildlife reserve. Sarah said: 'The best road so far has been the Carretera Austral in Patagonian Chile'
The couple - pictured here on their wedding day - have Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala and Mexico still to explored
'We also heard other travellers were planning much more time than originally planned, discovering new places, so that made us drop the plan to go further down Ushuaia, aka 'the end of the world', and just take the road when and where we felt like it.
'Our start was in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where we took a week of intensive Spanish school while our car was on her way from Antwerp, Belgium, to Montevideo, Uruguay, by boat.
'After two weeks we picked her up in Montevideo and that was the official start of our road trip.'
The global honeymoon has so far crossed through Uruguay, Argentina, Chile, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador and Colombia.
Leaving Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala and Mexico still to be explored.
Sarah added: 'The best road so far has been the Carretera Austral in Patagonian Chile, which some do in a couple of days but we took two weeks to cross the 1,000km road across glacier lakes and rainforest.
'The best wildlife experience has been meeting sea lions up close in Punta Ninfa's. It's not well known to tourist as they all go to parks with an entrance fee and barriers.'
