Concepción de Ataco, El Salvador Travel Blogs

Another one of those places...
Jul 12, 2007 (12 photos)

... . For dinner we had a marvelous feast courtesy of Manolo´s mother, serenaded by Manolo´s father on the guitar, and further entertained by the escapades of Rex.   And so my El Salvador sadly adventure comes to an end, with music and laughter.

The Beach
Jun 1, 2004 (5 photos)

... , rendering them incapable of causing problems and I could carry on as normal. This didn't work and I advise you not to try that. On Sunday afternoon, I said goodbye to all my friends from spanish school and started working my way toward El Salvador...

heeeere turtle, turtle, turtle, turtle...
Jul 26, 2006

the coast!! and it is beastly hot and buggy. i arrived a couple days ago. the nature park where i am staying and working, called ARCAS, is about 8 kilometers east of Monterrico and 2 kilometers west of Hawaii (the village, not the state!), on the ...

conclusion of the great turtle adventure
Aug 5, 2006

i´m on my way back to antigua, having completed my short tour with the turtle hatcheries. what a fascinating few weeks. so how do i feel?? mostly really good. i loved feeling that i helped advance the cause of something i care deeply about, if only ...

An unspoiled oceanside village on the Pacific
Feb 23, 2007 (2 photos)

We left San Pedro last Monday morning by private van with an American couple and the 18 year old nephew of their Belizean friend. We arrived in Monterrico on the Pacific in early afternoon after a 1 1/2 hour pitstop in Escuintla to change some money... ...

on huevos, hatchlings and hospitals
Aug 1, 2006

there is a chicken in the internet cafe right now. hilarious. love it. pretty damn exciting last few days!!! let´s start with the star of the show, entering stage left at about 10pm on Saturday night. dim the lights (actually, shut ´em off entirely). cue ...

Trip zum Pazifik
Aug 16, 2004 (12 photos)

... war nicht sonderlich sumpfig. Der Kanal, den wir befuhren, wurde vor 70 Jahren künstlich erbuddelt, um eine Transportroute von Mexiko nach El Salvador zu haben. Da heutzutage das Geld fehlt, ihn komplett in Stand zu halten, wird er nur noch für regionale ...

Tacuba
Mar 17, 2009 (17 photos)

... Mama y Papa run by Manuel from Juayua´s mate Manolo. The town is at the end of the road into the mountainous Parque Nacional El Imposible, named due to all the men and horses that fell into the gorge transporting coffee to the Pacific years ago. The reason ...

musings from monterrico
Jul 29, 2006

wow, the outpouring of interest, emotion, support, ideas and encouragment spurred by my last post was amazing. thank you all! apparently some of my words really touched something visceral in many of you. maybe humankind hasn´t completely disconnected ...

Sun and Black Sand Beaches
Feb 13, 2007 (19 photos)

... of black sand beaches and palm trees.  It is separated on the other side from the mainland by the Canal de Chiquimulila, which weaves through a massive network of lagunas and mangrove swamps.  Monterrico in in the middle of the Biotopo Monterrico ...

Tacuba, El Salvador
Sep 6, 2007 (6 photos)

... , time to move on to the next country. I decided to add another coutry to my trip, and took a bus in direction of El Salvador. After passing the border where I got ripped off by the money exchangers (even the bus driver didn't dare saying anything, and ...

What kind of town is this anyway....
Feb 20, 2007 (9 photos)

... crazy loud and the sand is black. Very strange and new but cool. We are staying at a cute little hotel right on the beach, El Dolphin, where we sleep in misquito nets, which is actually quite fun, and the roof is all open around the sides (hense the reason ...

el salvador
Apr 15, 2008 (5 photos)

ja da binsch jetze

Laguna Verde
Apr 27, 2009

Yes, quicksand does exist!

Weekend in Monterrico
Jan 10, 2007 (7 photos)

Today I learned something very important, I can upload more than 5 photos per entry.  In future you should see more variety.  Some other realizations: 1) the novelty of going to Spanish school is starting to wear off (for me).  I must ...

You can call me Alfonso of El Salvador...
Oct 30, 2009

... guide books, and you can get to know what life is really like in the country. It turned out there had been elections in El Salvador a week before we arrived, and a new leftist prime minister had been elected to office, in a mass landslide victory and the ...

Monterrico Beach Bums!
Jan 27, 2008 (6 photos)

It was a break from a week full of spanish classes. We went to the beach for the weekend and then went back for another week of spanish. We went to Monterrico on the pacific coast. It was amazing!

cam
Oct 13, 2009 (12 photos)

... v. friendly & sell good food & beer so haven't left the premises since arrival. Hot springs with Manolo, el hijo & his brother. Saw the boiling thermal waters, fumeroles, sulphurous emissions before sampling some of the 7 cascading pools of ...