Both the mountains around the area and the rivers that cross the valley isolate the town and make travel between Limay to the city of Estelí difficult.

Maintenance of the roads is difficult since flooding, falling rocks, mudslides and erosion are constantly working to destroy the fragile network that connects Limay to other places.

Leaving the town, the old yellow school buses that are the mainstay of Nicaraguan travel, move along the Pan American Highway for 10 km until reaching La Sirena.

At this point the bus to Limay veers off toward “Hermanos Cruces” where the route becomes a rutted, rocky, sometimes muddy, at times impassable stretch of road across the Estelí plateau.

At this high elevation one can see what is left of the pine groves, fields of grain are visible across the mountainsides and behind in the distance the city of Estelí.