Blogs from El Salvador, Central America Caribbean - page 4

After that epic Journey we arrived again on the pacific coast at Playa El Zonte. When the chicken bus dropped us off on the road there was an old women selling fruit and a dirt track. El Salvador's answer to the Costa del sol. The place we stayed was Asencia Nativa which was a really chilled place with a pool and some really cool people. I was the only one that went surfing because Ellie was ill. Surfing was great fun and I definately want to to some more even though it involved falling over alot. ... read more

'El Salvador seemed to be lacking in any redeeming features really but you may want to check it out if there’s stuff there that floats your boat. San Salvador, the capital where we had one night on a stop over, is lawless as f***. Expect to see security guards armed to the teeth, think Arnie in Commando style, very disconcerting.' C. Warren 2011 It was all a whirlwind of decision making. Having given up school, I kicked around in San Pedro de Laguna for a while which is easy to do because it is a party town. My friend, a Belguian named Jurgen, described his time at San Pedro as being 'lazy by day, hazy by night' which sums it up perfectly. I had a tricky period where I became addicted to heroine but luckily it ... read more

A few months ago my husband and I made the choice to move from the San Francisco Bay Area of the United States of America, to San Salvador, the capital of El Salvador. My husband and I owned a retail and wholesale coffee roasting company for more than seven years. We are both passionate about coffee. We love the business. We love the people in it. We also love coffee farms, and coffee countries, especially El Salvador. Neither of us could tell you why. El Salvador is small, and not particularly flashy, but it’s got a certain something we love. It could have been the El Salvador geography, or the weather in El Salvador or simply the amazingly friendly people of El Salvador. But somehow we fell in love with this country and decided to make ... read more

Yesterday the ground was alive, grass glowed, the fish gave me a pedicure and the tides paced the day. living in El Salvador My husband´s 42nd birthday was a good excuse to take a short trip. So we packed up an overnight bag and headed out with our 5-year-old daughter and her little dog Freddy to the Bahia de Jiquilisco. The Bahia de Jiquilisco is located in the southwest in the department of Usulutan in south-eastern El Salvador. The drive time would have been about an hour an a half from San Salvador, but with traffic jams getting out of the city, and the cattle jams as we got closer to the bay it was quite a bit longer. Entering the region we found the air was thick, heavy, and hot. After crossing bridges over ... read more

Kurzaufenthalt an der Pazifikkueste von El Salvador. Da auch hier zu viele "Gringos" anwesend sind gehts direkt weiter in die Hauptstadt San Salvador.... read more

We spent a day in San Salvador walking around in the old center which is really old and not well maintained. So apart from the cathedral and the palacio nacional there was not much to visit. So we went to the artesania market and bought some more souvenirs, this will be the last bit because we have allready a looooott! The next day we went to Santa Ana, a medium sized town with a centre which still has beautiful old buildings. So after visiting the centre we went to have lunch and do some shopping for dinner, because we had a really nice hostel with a kitchen with more pots, pans and other things to cook than most people have in Holland! The following day we went to parque nacional los volcanos to climb the Santa ... read more

My next objective was to get to El Salvador which was the only country in Central America that had not been blessed by my presence. I would basically be retracing my steps through Nicaragua from Masaya via Esteli to the Honduran border so that part of the journey should have been relatively easy. It started out well because I remembered the way past Masaya and the turn to the north that would get me back to the Interamericana but I made a wrong turn after that which took me on a tour of beautiful downtown Tipiatapa which was another one of those experiences akin to driving through the inside of a Wal-Mart on Black Friday. I don't know how I got back out of there but I did. The going was easy after that and I ... read more

So we arrived at 5:30 pm in San Salvador and took a taxi to the hostel that we had arranged from Managua. And it proved to be not the best decision to book this hostel in advance. It was really back to basics. For $22 we got a minature room, with a not really good working fan. We got our own bathroom but to go to the toilet we had to step through the shower. And the toilet did not fill itself anymore, so everytime you flushed you had to open it and make sure it would fill for the next time. And when you took a shower the water run int the room! Really back to basics. But a little to much for our taste so the next nights we spend in a much better ... read more