San Salvador, El Salvador Travel Blogs

Impossible Passes, No Gringos and Popusas!
Mar 10, 2005 (46 photos)

... century. In 1525, Pedro de Alvarado, a lieutenant of Cortés of Spain, conquered El Salvador. El Salvador, with the other countries of Central America, declared its independence from Spain on 15th September 1821, and was part of a federation of Central ...

The Money
Sep 18, 2008 (6 photos)

... everything and we just had to go along with it and r.e.l.a.x. On Friday night we were joined by a couple he knows from San Salvador, both young hotshot economists with plenty to talk about and plenty of questions for us about the UK, the US, what we ...

Transiting the capital
Dec 17, 2006

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San Salvador Mall Tour 2006
Mar 31, 2006

... Indeed, our hotel was great and cheap and filled with Peace Corps volunteers (cheap, good hotels are a rarity in San Salvador, and El Salvador´s tourism industry in general isn´t very developed). The hotel was only 2 blocks from the mall-world stuff, ...

Guns, Guns, everywhere but not a shot fired
Jun 8, 2004 (5 photos)

I am in San Salvador, the ultra modern capital city and the nightlife here is, borrowing an expression from one of my British friends, "proper amazing". They use the US dollar so for the first time in over two months, I am using good ole American ...

Is our bus driver selling coke??!?
Oct 3, 2006

... fine...no strange fees (actually, no fees at all) and they didn't even stamp my passport when I came into the country. San Salvador is.....crazy. I was super super super scared when I first got here because it seems to be a hugely high crime area. ...

I Need A Break!!
Jul 23, 2006 (8 photos)

... theatre to a group of perplexed locals. No wonder they don't like us much. I can't say I really liked the centre of San Salvador. No welcoming parklands like in the other towns we've visited recently and everyone was staring at us so we moved on. I ...

Luxury Buses - The Return Journey
Aug 1, 2006

... spending another night in their country, but I had no choice. 3 hours later at 9pm we finally pulled into the bus depot in San Salvador. 4 countries down, 1 to go but that'd have to wait till the morning. For now I was glad for the basic hotel room and ...

Still here in the expensive city
Jun 13, 2004 (3 photos)

... covers and if you're not careful, you will be donating parts from your cars nether regions to the sewage system of San Salvador. This past weekend, I couldn't resist the lure of the Zona Rosa nightlife district one last time and headed out with my ...

Going home....
Oct 7, 2006

Yesterday I made a rather interesting decision. I booked a flight home for tomorrow! I know, most of you reading this blog will think that that came right out of nowhere! However, I´ve been pretty homesick since I left, so I decided to catch a flight back ...

Entering El Salvador
Mar 23, 2005 (10 photos)

... of the hilly bits and still keep on going, we arrived at "la Libertad" which is south west of San Salvador" is like the "Skegness" of El Salvador. Only with really good surf waves and black boulders for a beach!!! Everybody and their dog was here with ...

A little splurge after a nightmare bus ride
Sep 28, 2007

... on our way. At 2am we found ourselves in a rather sketchy part of town (which at this time of night is most of San Salvador). We were cresting a hill when we noticed a police officer in full swat gear, barring the helmet, with both hands on his ...

Moving Fast
Jun 24, 2006 (3 photos)

... abroad that sends money home. These annual remittances equal about 16% of GDP. Additionally, there is substantial foreign investment in San Salvador. The city has an industrious feel and momentum seems to be on their side. I caught a few innings of ...

Is San Salvador the 51st state?
Nov 29, 2005

... from my peace corps group, Luke and Kathryn. We rode the Tica bus for 12 hours and passed through Honduras and arrived in San Salvador. . . the city of the super malls!! San Salvador has no less then 5 mall complexes, each of them huge!! They have ...

El Savador
Jun 16, 2005 (10 photos)

... near the coast as a result of the storm so not surfing turned out to be a good option. We spent one more night back in San Salvador before heading out to Nicargua, visiting some of the more cultural sights like the cathedral, museums and the market.

The last Alux Nahual concert!
Jul 8, 2006 (11 photos)

... Salvador that weekend - of course I agreed! We left on Thursday 6th of July and drove the 3 or so hours to San Salvador, the capital city. Border crossing was once again interesting for me - photocopies were made of my passport etc etc but ...

Rough dayz, Strange dayz
Jan 21, 2006 (8 photos)

My week started off with some pretty vivid, horrific nightmares thanks to my malaria medication. I used to get bad headaches but now the side effects are my nightmares. Not sure which I prefer, or that is, dislike less. The strange thing (one of many ...

Explosions aplenty for Christmas in El Salvador
Dec 25, 2006

I left San Jose, Costa Rica at around 3am......and after going through Nicaragua and Honduras, I eventually arrived at San Salvador around 9pm.  Thats definately a record for me: 4 countries in 1 day!  Another record was the money I had to hand ...

Dengue Fever
Dec 22, 2005 (5 photos)

... we both discovered neither of us was comfortable with living in the same small pueblo as another volunteer. We called office staff in San Salvador until it was resolved. It was decided I would be moved to another site in January once school starts and I ...

Searching for Ines and the best pupusa
Mar 8, 2006

... find that we experience more in smaller towns. There are very few places of real interest to us in El Salvador anyway...maybe Santa Anna and Suchitoto. San Salvador actually seems to be quite cosmopolitan and we would have liked to stay longer. For ...

Switching Planes in El Salvador
Nov 19, 2005

... typical TACA fashion, everything was screwed. Somehow they didn't have any of our names on the flight manifest for the leg from San Salvador to Managua. Funny, they didn't seem to have a problem getting us to El Salvador, it was just the final leg that ...

April fun
Apr 21, 2006 (38 photos)

... Spanish. I was in shock for a while after that. Later in the day as we were getting a ride from Bri (a trainer) to San Salvador a truck nearly slammed into us and that afternoon as I was showing a trainee who was leaving where the clinic was I saw a car ...

El Salvador
Oct 17, 2006 (11 photos)

... Antigua ben ik op vrijdag 13 oktober verder gereisd naar EL SALVADOR. De grensovergang tussen Guatemala en El Salvador verliep zonder problemen. In SAN SALVADOR aangekomen heb ik een taxi genomen naar een hostel dat volgens de reisgids Lonely Planet in ...

El Salvador
Mar 3, 2006

Took several buses from Panahachel to San Salvador the capital of El Salvador. We were the only tourists on the bus and the only tourists and the border crossing. Thsi was the same when we were at the hotel and then when we went for a walk around the city ...

San Salvador
Mar 5, 2009 (7 photos)

...  countries that allows for travel up to 90 days. From there I headed to a nice Hostel in San Salvador for a couple days before I would head over to the beach for a week.

ah the ticabus...
Jul 24, 2006

tbc

A horrible week!
Sep 21, 2008

... going to use the blog to vent! I´m in some serious bad mood after the day and week I´ve had. Right now I´m stuck in San Salvador for God knows who long, (TACA doesn´t seem to grasp the concept of informing their passengers about what is going on.) Was ...

An extreme second week
Oct 8, 2005 (3 photos)

... to stay dry the entire week and being too cold at night. While standing at a bus stop we had a 6.2 earthquake (a 4 in San Salvador). At first we thought it was from the volcano that erupted in Guatemala but later found out they were separate events. We ...

Sunny place for shady people
Oct 6, 2009 (2 photos)

... whilst the western part of San Salvador is quite developed with shopping malls and western chains like pizza hut, the centre of San Salvador is absolute carnage. I have not seen a more run-down and decrepit place on my whole journey (except for maybe ...

museums
Apr 26, 2009 (4 photos)

Trying to rent a car on a Sunday in San Salvador was a fruitless exercise. None of the rental agencies were open. The bell boy offered to see what he could do, and after about an hour said he had found only one rental, costing about as much for one day as ...