what happens when you climb a mountain and there is no view

The guide picked nick and 2 others up at 8am. there was an hours drive to the bottom of the volcano, and some roads would be tough even for a 4wd. The toyota struggled but we made it. 1390 metres high, but a 4km hike and was supposed to take 6 and a half hours so you can see it was going to be a tough hike and tough it was. after an hour we were saturated by the humidity. Every day is 30 - 32c with about 80% humidity, but it cools down at night to 25C and 60% humidity. A half hour later and we were walking in thick cloud and then it rained, not cold but wet, wet, wet. we battled on.. on the eay we saw lots of wild life, but one of the most memorable would probably be the long lines of leaf cutter ants, carrying their leaves like sails across the mountain tracks. There was a lake at the top.

As you can see no view. We started back down and it was wet and slippery, so took us a long time.

At least there was a view from about half way down.

Gabrielle had enjoyable time just lazing in a hammock, read a whole book, had a few dakaris and walked on the beach for an hour and a half and only saw 3 kids and a horse.

In our rooms there were geckos crawling the walls and I cannot believe how noisy they were. There was no need for an alarm clock, but not all night.

We left early next day to go to Granada. One hour bus to the port, hour and a half ferry trip then half hour taxi to the bus depot. We were heading to a beach called San Juan for lunch before a local bus ride to Granada.

had a lovely meal and taxied back to the depot and local bused to our next stop