Up the mountain

Maybe our criteria for selecting restaurants wasn't so good as I went down with traveller's tummy overnight. We drove back to near Liberia to stock up on supermarket supplies and refill with petrol. Then on to Borinquen Mountain Resort, some 28 kilometers up a winding but well signposted dirt road on the flanks of Rincon de la Viella volcano.

Here there are bungalows scattered up an incredibly steep wooded hillside above a restaurant and hot springs. However despite the distance of 3.5km to the National Park entrance printed in the guide book, it seems you have to instead backtrack and drive yet another 28km of dirt roads to actually get there.

The weather up here ( 630m above sea level ) is very strange. Almost continuous gusts of wind, sometimes dry but sometimes bearing very fine drizzle are sweeping down the mountainside with an intermittent roaring sound.





The bungalows are spacious and well fitted out, but the android tablet refuses to connect to the WiFi network in the room.