Blogs from El Salvador, Central America Caribbean - page 37

Woooow! What a surprise! What was El Salvador? AMAZING! If you're in Central America and are planning to skip El Salvador 'cause it's dangerous, please, change your mind. El Salvador was a really nice country with the most friendly local people so far! Everybody helped us as we needed, not like in Guatemala where everybody try to "help" you and then charge you some money! And apart the friendly people, the country's touristic spots are really nice! Our trip (still me, Philip and John) was a little bit short in the country, but we enjoyed as well. The trip from Monterrico (Guatemala) to our first stop, Playa El Tunco was quite exhausting, one boat, 2 chickenbuses to the Guatemalan/El Salvadorian border, cross the border walking, one more chickenbus to Sonsonate, sleep in Sonsontate (we didn't want ... read more

Hola todos, I apologise that it has been such a long time since my last entry, the past few weeks have been so busy and this really is the first chance i've had to write to you all! So i'll start from the beginning... I arrived in Santa Ana nearly 3 weeks ago now. It's a beautiful, colonial city (although it feels much more like a town), full of life and vibrancy albeit a little rough around the edges. There is so much to see outside of the city also, volcanoes, lakes, waterfalls, artisan villages, I am really looking forward to exploring this beautiful region! Shortly after moving to Santa Ana I began working at the Barefoot Angels project which has really exceeded all of my expectations! It is part of a larger organisation called ASAPROSAR ... read more

Hejsan alla mina vänner! Tolv dagar har nu passerat av min vistelse här i Sydamerikas minsta, men också mest tätbefolkade land: El Salvador. Landet är fantastiskt frodigt med otroliga landskap som breder ut sig i dalar och vulkaner. I detta subtropiska klimat är inte årstiderna indelade som våra, utan här finns snarare bara sommar och vinter. Vi är nu i det som de refererar till som vinter, som också är deras regnperiod. Detta innebär att det regnar nästan varenda dag med en intensitet och mängd som varierar. Här kan det falla 250 mm i ett enda regn! Så fuktigheten kan vara lite jobbig i bland, men då det ju aldrig blir kallt överhuvudtaget så gör det inte så mycket att bli genomsur! Jag och Joel, min volontärkompis, kom fram till San Salvador som huvudstaden heter, den ... read more

The decision to get up at 3:30 in the morning to jump on a bus for four hours is a decision you can only make the night before. So, that´s what I did--waiting in the muddy street at 4 a.m. listening to frogs and hearing the first chirps of birds while watching the stars slowly rotate their way across the sky and hearing the honking of the bread sellers as they started their daily rounds balancing the oversized baskets on their bicycles...waking up this early isn´t that rare in the campo. I joined up with Nohé and Leo and we waited for the bus to lumber over, filled with excited music and dance groups from Nueva Esperanza and La Canoa, and blasting reggaeton already--at 5:30 in the morning. All I wanted to do was sleep, but ... read more

Ce n'est pas sans fierte que je vous l'annonce: j'ai reussi a entrer dans mon 5e pays avant la fin de mon 4e mois de voyage! J'ai change mon billet de Cancun a La Havane, parce que fatalement, il y a un moment ou il faut se dire que je ne serai pas au Mexique d'ici a la fin du mois! Donc c'est reporte a la mi-octobre, qui sera bien vite la, et avec encore 3 pays (El Salvador, Guatemala et Belize) sur ma liste avant le Mexique, le temps de se bouger un peu est arrive! Ca tombe bien, puisque je ne sais pas ce qu'il m'arrive depuis quelques jours, mais j'ai vraiment envie d'activer un peu- la grande question est, jusqu'a quand cela va-t-il durer?!?! Apres quelques jours passes a Tegucigalpa pour cause de ... read more