Mountain View Hotel Puerto Plata

... to Doctor Julio later and we were on our way catching a nightbus to the capital (Quito) to transfer to a bus to Baños, a mountain town in the Andes. The bus was nicebut we didn't sleep a wink. The driver was going full pelt round the corners throwing us ...

... is terrifying. By general consensus traffic mostly drives on the right but only on the straight bits of the plains - around mountain passes, along bridges or on blind corners it's obligatory to be passing a ute overladen with sacks of rice, bunches ...

... van for $200 but no English speaking guide.  What did we need a guide to tell us this is a cow and that is a mountain?  Besides, I have survival Spanish.  Off we go.   It continued to rain.  We could barely see out the ...

... with a more dramatic valley setting. And like La Fortuna it also offers an abundance of tours to waterfalls, rafting, horse riding, ATVing, mountain biking etc, but at a fraction of the cost. Hot springs in Costa Rica? That´ll be $20 please. In Ecuador? ...

... ; Written in Spanish with Roman numerals, this was marked on the maps as Monte VI, de este  a oeste (Hill or Mountain 6, from east to west), and was abbreviated as Monte-VI-d-e-o, or Montevideo.  Another story about the naming of Montevideo is ...

... I knew from the outset that Spain would present the greatest challenges. Today I correctly anticipated having to cross a couple of mountain ridges and I was not disappointed. However I was surprised to find that I flew along and knocked an hour off my ...