This couple’s honeymoon was better than yours

A HONEYMOON is usually a week-long beach holiday somewhere like Queensland, or maybe Fiji or Bali if you play your cards right. Not this.

Newlyweds Kaz and Mariko have just finished an epic, 400-day honeymoon. Picture: Instagram

A HONEYMOON is usually a week-long beach holiday somewhere like Queensland, or maybe Fiji or Bali if you play your cards right.

This couple’s was better than yours.

Newlyweds Kaz and Mariko set off on a 400-day honeymoon in July 2015, spanning 48 countries over six continents.

Best of all, they filmed the entire thing using a drone.

“We weren’t really the kind of guys that took much selfies, but since it’s our honeymoon we thought we should take as much photos of ourselves as possible,” Mr Yamaguchi told the BBC.

“It was a total new experience. I had no knowledge in photography. I just practised flying my drone twice in Japan, and my third time was in Singapore.”

They budgeted about $66,000 for the epic trip, which had to cover two drone replacements.

“The one I have now is my third one. The first one I bought in Japan and lost it in a snow mountain in Norway,” he told the Daily Mail.

“I bought the second one in Paris and crashed it hard in a canyon in Namibia. The third one I bought in South Africa and that's the one I still have now.”

The drone turns average selfies into mesmerising images, especially over dramatic landscapes such as the Amazon rainforest or cityscapes like Dubai’s Palm Jumeirah.

The pair, originally from Kyoto, hadn’t travelled extensively before leaving Japan.

“Some of our favourite countries would be the USA, Ethiopia and China,” he told Nine.

“In terms of where the aerial footage was great, [our favourite locations] would be Lencois [Maranhenses National Park], Brazil; Dubrovnik, Croatia; Uyuni, Bolivia; and Guatape in Colombia.”

The pair saved for two whole years and travelled on a strict budget. Mr Yamaguchi was able to make money on the road, working remotely as a programmer.

“The locals, they stare at you, but sometimes it’s a really good way to communicate with the locals,” he told the BBC.

“Like, when I was in Africa, you can’t really speak the local language, and I mean, using the drone, they were really happy seeing it and we were able to communicate and had a really good time with the locals.”

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