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Waking up bright and early at 4.30am to get our taxi to the bus station went surprisingly well, and our broken Spanish got us to a bus going to San Salvador - not the one we had planned though, so our carefully calculated remaining money wasn't enough to pay for our tickets... luckily, they were totally happy to accept payment in a mix of Lempira and US dollars! The troublesome 4 extra dollars were worth it though, as we ended up in the cheap seats on a luxury bus (instead of our planned standard bus). The cheap seats still reclined to nearly horizontal, had WiFi and air conditioning. Money accidentally well spent!! Crossing to El Salvador was trouble free, although lining up with our bags just passed the border for a narcotics police check was pretty ... read more
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Sam shouldn't be allowed to jump off things...
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Central America Caribbean » El Salvador » Western » Tacuba November 20th 2008

Tim Version: * Went back through San Salvador, got Eve a backpack to replace her suitcase, then moved on to Tacuba. * Met up again with some friends from Sunzal, did an incredible trek involving many waterfall jumps, followed by chilling with a view thats beautiful beyond words and good coffee and food. The version that hopes to try and convey just how incredible Tacuba is: From Sunzal we cooked and scoffed what food was left (well... I did anyway. I think for breakfast I ate half a dozen pancakes, toast, fruit, yoghurt and maybe some other stuff, and nearly popped) and scurried off for a bus, making our way back to San Salvador. Again loving the ease of moving around in El Salvador, we cruised back to San Salvador in chicken buses to the Universities ... read more
Am I seeing double?... or triple?...
A church in San Salvador
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