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Published: January 6th 2009
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Long, curvy and sexy
Doesn´t it make you just wanna dive in for a paddle? Tim Version:
* Bussed to El Sunzal, knees quivering with excitement, and found it just as good as I had hoped!
* Checked in to a hostel and put my feet up... in front of world class surf, palm trees and bikinis of course. Life can be hard sometimes eh?
The sunny, warm, curving breaks version:
Public transport here is pretty easy. Its a mixture of Nicaraguan chaos and organised bus numbers and monitors (making sure they are on time). Buses have numbers yes but they´re still as far as I can tell privately owned an run. With numbers and destinations written on them, parked in Terminals with the destination on a big sign in front of the bus, you still have all the guys yelling their destinations all the time which is awesome and funny as hell heh. "Libe Libe Libertad!" was coming from mine as it passed me in the street so i jumped on while it was still moving of course - a part I´m loving! The buses are still incredibly colourful with shark fins and stuff on top, with different stereo systems, strobe lights, some with TVs, and enough religous stickers to sink Noah´s ark.
On the cruise from San Salvador to La Libertad you get to see a lot of the money of El Salvador - lots of private large estates with big houses, public tennis courts, all that kind of stuff. El Salvador is pretty well known for its big gaps between rich and poor, and this did nothing to dispel that! Having said that, its not a snobby thing I think to live in one, and there are plenty of realistic well priced ones. Due to the organisation of it all, they´re secure and have awesome infrastructure, which is affordable to install when done on big scales such as these, and the look like they´re working really well! More appreciation gained again for the generic looking popup suburbs - they really kinda work! Individualism comes with a price tag that not everyone an afford and these fill that gap very well!
La Libertad is pretty cool but still feels like a point just to do your shopping for the other beachside destinations, and is a good transportation hub. Its got some little markets,a couple of supermarkets, and a bunch of other shops along with a working pier and lots of
fresh vegies and seafood on offer. With my big backack though I just wanted to find a place to call home, so I headed on the next bus to Sunzal and already the vibe being near the beach is more chilled! I´d say happier, but San Salvador was happy too!
Getting off the bus in Sunzal I was so happy it was hard to contain it! Grinning from ear to ear, throwing off the shoes and dying to ditch my pack instead for nothing but a pair of board shorts, I grabbed a room at Surfers Inn with a basic kitchen and stuff though not an exciting looking place at all, and ran for a swim! I planned on finding a better hostel but for now this will do!
The main break, also named Sunzal, is a slowly breaking curvy mistress, just a good size, much like the girls in El Salvador really heh. Take out the word breaking of course... Nicaragua and El Salvador, definitely winning on the girls front! The break starts from a point at the end of the path from my hostel, where the beach heads out over rocks (apparently the rocks arent always
Is this art?
Found this setup on the beach, a little mushroom rock. Does this count as an arty shot? there are its just a seasonal thing). While breaking, its never really that far from the beach, like it isn´t a distant open sea break, but man its a hard paddle! Breaking to your left when you´re facing it, the right hand side all kinda breaks at once over shallower rocks and isn´t usable meaning you can´t paddle out there. The left break goes for so long that paddling from the beach out to the start of it takes a few goes with little breaks and is a real arm tester! Looks like it has a strong rip too, which I´ll find out in person soon... ahhh its got me salivating! No surfing for me today but Ill have t grab a board real soon and give it a run! The bitch though here being that, and this counts for all similar waves like Pavones, that with a reliable break point and a ride all the way to the beach, its not hard to fill the wave and then only the best guys get a ride and you can sit for hours never getting a go! Tonnes of awesome local boys and girls surfing to adding to the crowd of
A little friend in my sink
Hostel with private room, kitchen, and spider tourists having a crack.
Left of the wave is El Tunco. On the bus, these stops are a few minutes apart and feel really distant but its all an illusion and they´re actually right next to each other on the beach! With a couple of incredible rocks to sit and chill on and tonnes of beach, the whole area rocks! Pictures will describe better than I but I feel so at home here.
After wandering and searching I found a wicked hostel, right next door heh, called "El Hostal" that had a better kitchen and fridge so I planned to move there the next day... good boards for cheap hire too, perfect! The owner, Dizzy, is a wicked bloke too and good fun to talk to and with my Spanish still lacking and my current hostel all local Spanish only speaking owned, this other place looked good... I tried to study but was too damn tired and excited so crashed heavily for the night, dreaming of riding that beautiful big long wave... does that count as a wet dream? Sorry, bad joke! Cheeesy...
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