“We nearly cannot consider that we’re right here,” Stephanie stated.
“It has been such an ordeal to get dwelling so we’re extraordinarily relieved and completely satisfied.”
“We have been happening a four-day Amazon tour in Peru,” Jason stated.
“On day one, we figured our driver should have fallen asleep behind the wheel and drove off a cliff.”
Stephanie stated the van “spun thrice” earlier than it hit two bushes and got here to a cease.
“It was simply carnage after that,” she stated.
In some way, everybody survived the crash, together with Jason who was knocked out for nearly half an hour within the crash.
All 10 passengers scrambled up the muddy cliff aspect with passersby serving to them to security.
However what unfolded within the following days was extra chaos.
9News first spoke to the couple after a number of journeys to Peruvian hospitals, the place they could not get the medical care they so desperately wanted.
They’d discovered themselves stranded amid a wrestle with their journey insurer and the Australian Division of Overseas Affairs unable to go away the nation.
The couple stated when their story obtained media consideration, the method began to hurry up.
“It helped us get dwelling, the Australian embassy stepped up,” Stephanie stated.
Stephanie and Jason boarded the primary flight out the subsequent day.
Now the couple is again on Brisbane soil with loads to be grateful for.
“We like almost died,” Stephanie stated.
“To be dwelling and to see the folks that we love is a fairly large one.”
