According to guidebooks, a Spanish writer once characterized la Cartuja's altar as a "motionless architectural earthquake".
Now, according to guidebooks and local lore, they can be found in almost every body of water in the state, from large swamps to irrigation ditches.
According to guidebooks, Boquete, in the shadow of Barú, was filled with gardens and flowers, surrounded by lush coffee plantations and vegetable farms.
According to my guidebook, I was looking at some of the oldest exposed rock on earth.
I was doing the backpacker equivalent of off-roading as, according to my guidebook, Carupano just doesn't exist.
According to my guidebook, these fretted pinnacles ("scelig" means "splinter of stone") are among the 10 highlights of Ireland.
Every year, the Tenggerese appease the spirits of the volcano by tossing vegetables, chicken and money into the maw during the Kasada festival, according to one guidebook.
Cole; where, in 2006, tribesmen kidnapped a group of French tourists; and where (according to my guidebook) a Kalashnikov can be had for only a little over $100.
One evening we ventured out to Fornalutx, "often voted Mallorca's loveliest town – if not all of Spain's", according to our guidebook.
And hundreds have attended their regularly sponsored Entheocentric Salon, an all-night party involving, according to the guidebook, "live painting, video projections, local and international DJs and musicians, live performances, lectures and visionary conversations".
