Blogs from San Salvador, Central, El Salvador, Central America Caribbean - page 6

(Day 841 on the road)When a country doesn't have its own currency but uses the US dollar, you suspect that something is not right here. When you then realise that the country holds the sad fourth place in the category "highest murder rate in the world", this feeling gets stronger. Then your guide book tells you that 95% of the forest in the country has been cut down, you start to get even more worried. And when you then read that a whopping third of the population lives abroad, you know for sure that something fishy is going on. Welcome to El Salvador. However, after just having spent nine days in the country, all I can say that we have been extremely pleasantly surprised by El Salvador, and that we didn't have a single negative experience ... read more

On July 23, 2010 I will be joining 18 other people from Villlanova, Pa on a mission trip to San Salvador, El Salvador. We are being sponsored by the Handmaids of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Bryn Mawr, Pa. The mission is Project Fiat. The Sisters operate a volunteer mission house there and invite groups to join them in their work for a week at a time throughout the year. I know only one other woman in this group so far, but I fully anticipate that after this experience, there will be a special feeling among all of us. Having been to Central America (Honduras) 24 years ago, I have a sense of what I will see and the kinds of people I will meet. I am both excited and nervous. I do not speak ... read more

Sarah and I got our bus to El Salvador yesterday around 2pm. Bus was with King Quality. Really nice seats, good movies, and lots of food and snacks. We arrived in San Salvador around 830pm, and made our way to the hotel. Hotel was nice. We had a TV and a fan that was noisy enough to block out most of the noise. We were on the street though, so there was lots of traffic noise. This morning we had a good typical plate for breakfast and are now at an internet cafe around the corner from the hotel. We will head to the airport soon to catch our 4.5 hour flight to Peru! We should have internet there, so I´ll write when I can. Definitely excited for Peru. ... read more

On the Saturday morning of my final week in Suchitoto my friend Rodolfo picked Abi and I up and took us to the beach at El Tunco to party. Rodolfo is Salvadoran artist living in Paris who is staying with his family in San Salvador for three months whilst he has an exhibition. I had met him at the beach some weeks previously and had great fun partying with him and his friends. We had reconnected by facebook but I bumped into him by chance in Suchitoto the previous Sunday and arranged to go to the beach the following weekend. So that Saturday we drove down to the beach along with Rodolfo's friend Reinita. We stayed back in our old friend Codi's hostel in Sunzal and partyed hard at a salsa night at D'Roca beach bar. ... read more

Managua, Nicaragua, a 8 de septiembre del 2009. Saludos a todo mundo. Ahì les van alguna fotos de San Salvador, capital de El Salvador, que tienen como un millòn y medio de almas. En el trayecto de Antigua hacia la frontera (y antes de Quetzaltenango hacia Antigua), la mayorìa del viaje fue en autopista, y en los tramos en que no hay es que la estàn construyendo. En El Salvador la autopista sòlo inicio en las cercanìas de la capital. Como se firmò el acuerdo C-4 entre Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador y Nicaragua, basta con entrar a cualquiera de estos paìses para poder ingresar al resto sin mayor formalidad (en teorìa, en la pràctica es otra cosa) y permanecer en la zona hasta 90 dìas. Gracias a este acuerdo no hubo necesidad de sellar mi pasaporte ... read more