Background: El Salvador achieved independence from Spain in 1821 and from the Central American Federation in 1839. A 12-year civil war, which cost about 75,000 lives, was brought to a close in 1992 when the government and leftist rebels signed a treaty that provided for military and political reforms.
May 3rd 2008Central America Caribbean » El Salvador not planned, three day escape to el salvador where i discovered san salvador, the greatest city of central america. off to la libertad and playa sunzal, one of the greatest surf spots in central ameri ... 22 photos[full story]
May 1st 2008Central America Caribbean » El Salvador » Juayúa As well as being the most "off-the-beaten-track" destination in Central America (95% less backpackers here than in Guatemala, for example) El Salvador also has to go down as quite possibly the friendl ... 23 photos[full story]
April 29th 2008Central America Caribbean » El Salvador » La Paz Hello everyone! Yep, we are still here in El Salvador. We are waiting to receive a Solenoid that we ordered, and the delivery missed the carrier by a few hours, so luckily we had a contact up in th ... [full story]
April 22nd 2008Central America Caribbean » El Salvador » Bajo Lempa It is easy to talk about the first performances of this year in quantitative terms. The youth from Nueva Esperanza performed their play "Juntos podemos" (from a quote from the community--"Juntos pode ... 25 photos[full story]
April 22nd 2008Central America Caribbean » El Salvador » Juayúa A good friend, Bill, turned me onto Movie Maker from Microsoft on the computer, therefore I put together a video clip of us sailing into El Salvador. I added some music too! Hope it downloads, and ... [full story]
April 20th 2008Central America Caribbean » El Salvador » San Salvador Despues de dejar la tan emotiva visita que tuvimos en Leon, salimos destino a El Salvador. Alli nos estaba esperando Nuria, una prima mia (Rocio). Llegamos a San Salvador por la noche y como no era de ... 50 photos[full story]
April 19th 2008Central America Caribbean » El Salvador » San Salvador Taalla on erittain hyvaa kahvia! Se on mahtava asia se. Samalla kun kahviasiat saatiin kuntoon, urheilumeininki on karahtanyt. Jalkapallo ei olekaan enaa kiistaton ykkonen, vaan baseball jyraa! Ihme m ... [full story]
April 18th 2008Central America Caribbean » El Salvador Nearly every day here the issue of immigration hits and washes over me from this "other side."
A taxi driver I met in San Salvador had lived in Venice Beach and spoke fantastically vulgar street En ... [full story]
April 16th 2008Central America Caribbean » El Salvador » Perquín AFter the last blog, it was time to take a trip to the inland and see other parts of El Salvador. We hauled the dingy up onto the boat, and cleaned out the fridge. Had our friend, Theresa, take us a ... [full story]
April 13th 2008Central America Caribbean » El Salvador After Juayua we made our way to Suchitoto...first on bus to Santa Ana. There are no busses from there to Suchitoto, so we got on another one to a town about an hour away. The bus "station" was in the ... 6 photos[full story]
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