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- San Salvador
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- El Salvador Colon (SVC)
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- 6,237,662
- Population
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San Miguel Slideshow
Travel Blogs from San Miguel, El Salvador
It must be something in the water here......
This is a top pick! I arrived in San Miguel around noon, and within two minutes I had several guys seriously hitting on me. They kept asking about my boyfriend back home, and if he had as good a job as them etc. It was pretty funny....and yet also scary. I managed to ditch ...
San Miguel El Salvadore
... dont speak Spanish or something or we were just way way lost. We decided to stop trying to find a decent place to camp in El Salvador - its just too easy to get really lost and end up on sandy roads and so we got back on the Pan American Highway ...
Illegal Alien
... beautiful, and the bucolic village we stayed in was nestled next to a creek that was running down the hill into El Salvador. Two interesting experiences that I had involved unofficial, international border crossings. The first involved a man who had ...
Alegrìa, El Salvador
... the views all the way to the Pacific ocean. In Alegría we also got to know Jimmy and Roberto from the capital of El Salvador, namely San Salvador, who offered us to take us in their truck to the coast, to Perquín, and finally to the Honduran boarder. ...
Alegría
Highest village in the country with amazing views from pretty well anywhere - don't bother with the 100 steps! There is a really pretty vivero & restaurant with great views. A little cooler for all that, so nice not to need the fan. In the ...
5 countries in 4 days!
... ;íliš zdržovat. Cesta do San Salvador měla údajně trvat 3 hodiny, ale než jsme se vymotali ze San Miguel, byla hodina hned v čudu. Busy tu fungují tak, že nabírají cestující po cestě, zastavují tak prakticky ...
Alegria - Quaint, artistic town
After the crazy, steep drive up to Alegria (Wesley did great but I didn´t fare so well!) we entered a little, quaint village lost in time. It was so beautiful and the people were sooo very kind. It was clean, well kept and Devin and I knew instantly ...
Sweet Marias
Our new friends from El Zonte told us how beautiful the beaches in El Espino are, so we thought we'd check it out. Once there, we drove to the end of the road and found a palapa in a coconut grove with a sign painted on an old tractor tire that read ...
Trapped in San Miguel by back paralysis & Avatar
... Also, if I hadn't been temporarily paralyzed, I would've never encountered Southbridge, MA Big Bunny Market's sister supermarket in El Salvador and been able to share this exciting news with my little bro, Tyler, former Big Bunny employee. Due to ...
El Salvador!
... to read in the foodcourt a little while longer, I decided to head back to the hostel. Now I have to mention here that El Salvador, and particularly the capital, is considered to be an incredibly dangerous place. I had been warned my many a traveller of ...
San Miguel
One night stopover for an early start to Nicaragua. Hotel was next to a gun shop! Iain went for a hircut at Oscars the barbers 2 doors from the gun ...
Cycling days 81-87: Antigua to Usulutan
... be an easy time to the border. Good news! We say goodbye to our friend, a last good impression of Guatemala, and head for El Salvador. We ride over a bridge, crossing a wide river, and on the other side is the border post. Crossing borders is very simple ...
Rested in Antigua and No Problemo At El Salvador B
... . Adults are conversing with each other laughing, playing some sort of game or tending to their fires. I smile again and instantly like El Salvador. We arrive in Sonsonate at dusk. We book ourselves into a hotel room and drink a couple of cold ...
another dirty City
Because the holiday season is coming up and I didn't want to get trapped in El Salvador, I've decided to do some hard traveling South for a few days. So now I've made the trip to the city of San Miguel, which is halfway to the Honduras border and big ...
EZ Riding to Usulután
... drying in the sun. After sun drying, the cashews will be roasted. We have bought some delicious home roasted cashews here in El Salvador. We got to Usulután where a large colorful graveyard greeted us as we came rolling into town. The volcano was a ...
Falling in love with El Salvador
I left the island early, heading across another border into El Salvador. This is the smallest but most densely populated country in Central America (6.5 million) with a chain of active volcanoes running down its centre. It has a bad image problem ...
El Salvador
... After a stopover in Perquin for the famous & moving war museum, I crossed 2 borders in one long day going from El Salvador through Honduras into Nicaragua.The highlight of that day was watching the football World Cup in crowded cafe on the Honduran ...
Medussa
... for the first border crossing......... yeah yeah I know ). We have a very busy couple of days ahead of us. We plan on leaving El Salvador tomorrow and entering Honduras. Which in a way is funny because we are going to drive... wait .........wait for it ...
El Salvador
... I don't get any more stamps in my passport till I leave the Central America Free Trade Agreement zone (Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala). I didn't even see any immigration people on the Honduras El Salvador border (but that might be ...
Would You Prefer a View of Breakfast or Dinner?
... the 3 block radius around the central square to our satisfaction, and that maybe we should skip out for a night in San Miguel, the largest city in eastern El Salvador. It was on the way to Honduras, so would save us at least 2 ½ hours and 3 modes of ...
Turtles in El Salvador
After escaping the Western beaches of El Salvador, too Americanized and soulless for our taste, we found refuge in what the locals sometimes call the 'Wild East' of the country. It has not been developed yet for tourism although it boasts endless strips ...
4 more weeks of training
Bueno, Yeah haven´t written in a while. Things are going well though. No bad sicknesses as of late, just some amigas aka amoebas living inside me. I am finally on the down hill side of training, only 4 weeks left. We find out our site assignments ...
Happiness in the Mountains
According to our guidebook, Alegria was supposed to be a charming mountain village with a cool mountain breeze known for its flowers. We didn't see any flowers; however we did enjoy that cool mountain breeze. We also couldn’t find any cheap ...
A Pelican named Albert
At 'La Tortuga Verde' there is more than turtles, there's also a pelican... a pet pelican. Every morning he goes out to sea... but he won't catch any fish. Albert's wing was amputated so he can't fly, which means he can't dive to catch the fish. As ...
Get -The-Hell-Out-Of-Here-Town Part 2
... What we saw when we got the looked more like Christmas day at the public pools in Durban back home. And apparently in El Salvador by public pool they mean public urinal. We had paid our money to get into the "park" so we figured we might ...
Starting Projects, Finally
... and plan schedules, and from them I learned two things: 1. People are really not that interested in helping me plan things, and 2. In El Salvador it is polite to say you will go to something (say, a women´s group meeting), even if you have no interest ...
Went in vain
We wanted to experience another surf spot in El Salvador. We had heard it's pretty good but also very expensive. Not able to get any information out of the internet (that does still happen, I can’t believe it), we decided, how bad can it be. There ...
I can build you a stove out of a pot and bananas
... it’s most efficient this way, we’ll break it down by topic again: Safety and Security Conference: This was held in San Miguel for two days, which ironically is one of the most dangerous cities in Central America. But I like it because I found ...
Turtle Heaven!!
... beach and excursions to the local volcano, bird estuary island and boating to an island surrounded by Honduras, Nicaragua AND El Salvador! Both excursions were fantastically fun and were offered by Tom, the owner who knows EVERYONE and happens to ...