Blogs from Juayúa, Western, El Salvador, Central America Caribbean

Hola, Gorf here again, this time from Juayua, El Salvador! It was a bit of a drawn out trip to get here, which might be a drag if you were in a hurry, but we´re not! We were able to meet some interesting people and watch life go by here. The plan was to catch a public bus from El Zonte, hoping for one of the two daily that would take us almost all the way to our destination. Great plan, but didn´t quite fit with the way the buses really run here. While we waited for the bus we watched some local guys playing a game called ´dama´. Like draughts, but their setup was using a board painted on a concrete table on the side of the road, with beer bottle tops for counters. One ... read more

Saturday Finally, Saturday was the day to get a late start. Caesar, our tour guide, picked us up for a ‘ruins and volcanoes’ tour. He was a very knowledgeable and friendly local who was very helpful in describing each site. First stop, we visited the Pompeii-style Mayan ruins of ‘Joya de Ceren’, which was buried under lava and ash after a volcanic eruption in 595 A.D. We continued our trek towards Cerro Verde about an hour away (uphill, both ways, winding roads). This road trip made me queasy and brought back nightmares of my trip to Pai. On the way up, we caught multiple great views of Coatepeque Lake, a volcanic crater lake nestled between three volcanoes. We captured numerous beautiful photos at several lookouts. Once we arrived to Cerro Verde, a national volcanic park, we ... read more

Hello all, here are some pictures just to prove that I am indeed in Central America and not just in my parents basement. I am sitting in Juayua, El Salvador, it is a gorgeous day, a Saturday, and the day of the week that this town explodes with a food festival, serving such delectable treats as iguana, taurantulas and whatever else your stomach has never actually wanted to digest. Should be a blast!!! But until then, I thought Id make use of the free internet to let everybody know how awesome El Salvador is. Its a small country with a ton of people living in it, making it for a busy hopping place to be, but oddly, with very few touristas/grignos! Im well and truly traveling on my own now and making my way through this ... read more

Casa Frolaz is the name of the place we are staying in Santa Ana, dropped our things in the dorm room and left for metro center mall to internet eat and chill, then we headed to town center so the boys can check out travel agencies to book their tickets. Coming back to the hostel we had some red wine and just chill, it was quite windy and gusting quite strong. Then all of a sudden the owner Javier came in the room and said something like check your belongings as there was a suspicious dude who checked in earlier claiming to be Calixto from Cuba and that he showered in our room, he might have stolen things as he looked dodgy from the get go, I quickly checked my money belt and to my horror ... read more