text:  The van driver made a hairpin turn every 30 seconds for almost five hours. I loved the views, gorgeous, sweeping vistas of the mountainous jungles below and plunging drop-offs that added to the already agitated state of my stomach. We stopped behind a rickety old local bus that had broken down. Guess what? We jammed all the passengers from that bus into our van and stopped at villages all along the way, dropping them off at their destinations.