Meet the family travelling the world in an airplane! ✈️

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Credit: SWNS / Michelle Porter  A family-of-five are on a 14-month round-the-world holiday - flying their own single-engine plane.  The Porter family took off in June and have already travelled to the Bahamas, Dominican Republic, US Virgin Islands and Argentina.  Dad Ian, 59, a real estate developer, mum Michelle, 58, and kids, Samantha, 21, Sydney, 18, and Christopher, 15, travelled 15,000 nautical miles, stopping off in 12 countries.  The brood, from Vancouver, Canada, believe they are the first family to attempt the adventure.  Currently in Argentina, next they will be heading to Ushuaia, South America, then they will head north through Chile, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia and into Central America.  Next they'll go through Europe before heading through Northern Africa, the Middle East, Pakistan, India, Eastern Asia and then back towards Canada.

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00:00Today we flew to our 12th country on our around-the-world expedition.

00:11Crazy to even say that, but it gets even better.

00:14On today's flight, we were able to see one of the seven natural wonders of the world.

00:17We left Ascensión Paraguay this morning and prepped ourselves to cross another border.

00:21You'd think we would be getting the hang of it, and although we are getting more dialed,

00:25there is always something new that pops up and something that goes wrong.

00:29Today was one of the very few, if any, absolutely perfect, beautifully sunny, cavocay days of

00:34flying since, honestly, before the Bahamas.

00:37It made for a great trip across Paraguay, and we got to see a lot of the beautiful countryside

00:41and farmland from the air.

00:42Our GoPro mounted on the plane was doing perfectly all the way until we reached the one thing

00:46that we really wanted to film, and then it shut off, of course.

00:51That's just how she rules sometimes.

00:52Iguazu Falls, the wonder of the world in question, are waterfalls of the Iguazu River.

00:57There are a total of 275 waterfalls, but the number actually varies between wet and

01:02dry seasons, and all together they make up the largest waterfall system in the world.

01:06They're located on the border of Argentina and Brazil and are absolutely incredible.

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