Blogs from El Salvador, Central America Caribbean - page 44

well i finally got out of el tunco. that place was amazing it was hard to leave. we stayed 2 extra days but probably coulda stayed an extra month. we have about a hundred pics of sunsets though lol. on sat there was a reggae band playin at a campground so we decided to head on over and check it out. it was pretty cool there was a dj there as well and guys doing crazy ass fire tricks. the dj played mostly reggeton but he also played house of pains jump around and kriss krosses jump needles to say there was alot of jumping, mostly on my feey by a drunken french canadian lol. it was a good time though. the next day i had a bit of a hang over so i just layed ... read more

okay let me try this again... well we left san pedro and took the boat to santiago great boat ride thru the lake but santiago was nothing special a great markey but since i cant buy shit there was nothing really to do so we got a hotel room and went walking around to learn about where we have to get the bus the next morning, we found the place i asked around and it turns out there are busses leave to esquitle almost every half an hour. we continued to walk arounfd and found a place were i could get my head shaved for 2 dollars. afterwerds we just went back to the room and watched tnt ( believe it or not) we saw spiderman 2 and bad boys and ate cheap tacos ( i ... read more

I finally had a short ride up to San Salvador; however, I still had to work for it as the first 20 km were straight uphill. San Salvador sits in a valley like almost every Central American capital. They also seem to have a token volcano near be -- San Salvador was no different. The distinction between the good part and the bad part (or should I say the colourful part) of town here is very distinct. At some point (probably in the 60´s or 70´s), the city decided to move the commercial part of the city west and leave the existing downtown to die. Few buildings have had much if anything done to them in the past three of four decades. The buildings actually remind me of old Havana -- yes, that bad. While the ... read more

My first two days of cycling have been punishing to say the least (thankful Shauna isn´t on this ride or I might be single by now :-)). The day started again around 6:00. I was still tired and still not 100% from my food problems from Saturday morning. This was indicative because I took my first nap of the day at the 25km mark! I usually leave the siestas for the heat of the day, but that wouldn´t be the case today. The scenary hadn´t changed much from yesterday. The biggest difference was the level of poverty out in the countryside. Homes made of wood, mud, and corrugated metal seemed to be more of the norm. Another thing that was interesting was that I haven´t seen any Salvadorean flags anywhere or any tourists until La Libertad. ... read more

We stayed for one night back in San Salvidor. We had requested a few days earlier the same room from Ximena's that we had before. We thought all was well but on arrival found only the crappy noisy rooms available. Not happy we went to La Estancia not far away and slept in a dorm. No one else was in our room so it was fine and Pieter spent the evening chatting with Peace Corp volunteers who favoured this hostel. One was a New York narcotics cop. The next day we caught a taxi at 5:30 am to the Terminal Oriente and got onto an 'especial' bus for San Miguel. These buses are simply the more modern ones with comfy seats but aircon was never installed. It left at 6 am on the dot. It took ... read more