http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/Fatimih/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Fatimih en-us Sat, 30 Aug 2008 14:28:45 BST Sat, 30 Aug 2008 14:28:45 BST I left El Salvador days ago. Five buses and two borders later I arrived in Leon Nicaragua with my thoughts still in El Salvador. I think it was the people interested and curious or the fact that when there yoursquore witness to the momentum of change occurring in a country many find too dangerous to visit. Definitely a policed country mostly present to combat the issues between gangs of http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Nicaragua/Volcan-Mombacho/blog-136002.html My crazy family subscribes to the notion that salt water heals all so naturally I headed directly for the ocean and stayed for a week.El Salvadorrsquos coastlines certainly donrsquot receive the hype which Costa Ricarsquos coasts do so you get to a ponte like El Zonte and itrsquos just the fisherman their families the ocean and youFalling asleep with only 4 walls separating you fro http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/El-Salvador/El-Zonte/blog-136000.html 2hour bus ride south of TacubahellipJuayua is a cute colorful coffeegrowing town. Cute to the point where the trees which line the street grids have been sculptured in the shape of blocks and balloons and the building rows behind them each are perfectly painted in bright happy colors accented with flowers.A popular weekend spot for Salvadorians Sundays the parque central fills with local http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/El-Salvador/Frontera-Honduras/blog-135996.html So I arrived in El Salvador Tacuba 2.1.07...and wow this place is amazing and the country as whole What a change a divide between neighboring countries can make. Walking over the border that bridge such a different feeling.I loved Guatemala but El Salvador the whole vibe feels so much more comfortable. Tacuba far eastern El Salvador an hour and a half from the most southern border of Gua http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/El-Salvador/Frontera-Honduras/blog-132802.html Its just so hard to leave say goodbye...Guatemala so engaging and diverse so yes I made just one last stop before heading out.San Pedro on beautiful Lago de Atitlan. Welcome to Paradise a neighboring village sign reads. While San Pedro has no such sign having given all my senses illumination a paradise it certainly felt.A shock of change. Where is this from there that village just 8 ho http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Guatemala/Lago-de-Atitlan/San-Pedro-La-Laguna/blog-125079.html I write from the onlycomputer here in the small mayan villge of Todos Santos Guatemala population 800 where the villagers still where the traditional dress and exist with little to no mordern influences. Overall the people are gracious slow and friendly. had an amazing photo shoot today.just to ease your mind never to worry about me down here there is absolutely no shortage of male fellow http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Guatemala/Todos-Santos-Cuchmatin/blog-124143.html I did make my way out of hiding in mutereminense and met many travelers. A lot are here in Guatemala for volunteer work or intense several month long study for masters degree requirements and there are a cluster who like me pass on through one of whom I plan on meeting up with in a month as an escort across the border into South America.I just finished my second week of classes and have d http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Guatemala/Quetzaltenango/blog-124138.html This country is amazing. I'm slipping into another zone. I arrived in Guatemala city spent the night and another day. The poverty and the shock of walking through the streets of an unindustrialized city hmm what to say.It's the biggest city in Central America yet it's so incredibly poor.I walked throughhilled calles of adobe dwellings peaked in doorways where mayan women mixed corn masa in ba http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Guatemala/Guatemala-City/blog-124137.html