 It was a continuous three-and-a-half-year voyage through Africa and Latin America, from April 1947 to November 1950 and covering 44 countries and 111,000 kilometers.Having traveled from the north coast of Africa to Mexico, the duo returned home, but their country had greatly changed during their absence.The 1948 Czechoslovak coup d'état, scored by the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia with the support of the Soviet Union, had put a Stalinist government in control, beginning one of the bleakest eras of the country's history.