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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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Santa Ana Slideshow
Santa Ana
Travel Blogs from Santa Ana, El Salvador
Round up of the trip so far...
This is a top pick! ... it really is a gem. Hostel/Hotel: We both voted for Mama y Papas in Tacuba and Javiers Casa Frolaz in Santa Ana, both in El Salvador. Natural Attraction: For Tash it was Hierve el Agua in Mexico, the beautiful sulphur pools and petrified waterfalls ...
The sun is out and we are happy!
This is a top pick! ... , just outside San Salvador, offer a convenient way to take advantage of natural facilities safely and comfortably. Travelling around El Salvador is a lesson in humility. Contrasting with the vibrant colour and sweep of the landscape, the overwhelming ...
A new country
This is a top pick! ... wear sunglasses. "Ojos azules atraen a mujeres y criminales" Blue eyes attract women and criminals. Hmm, now there's a dilemma. In Santa Ana, El Salvador's 2nd largest and most pleasant and relaxed city, there are no other gringos to be found. I haven't ...
Ameobas R Us
This is a top pick! ... fun. They're all just innocent young lives, that were born into the wrong place when it comes down to it. I'm liking El Salvador very much, it's a beautiful wild country, covered in towering volcanoes and surrounded by wild beaches, some of the best ...
Feliz Cumpleanos Gringo!
... away from the shore, the steep cliff makes for passing to Guatemala pretty impossible this way, but still an interesting image. El Salvador. I thank thee for hosting a ginger gringo on his birthday. I'm sorry I did not visit your beautiful beaches but ...
The Two Big Triangles
... but without the grumpy. I ended my stay with pizza and a movie night at the hostel with some fellow travellers and watched Innocent Voices, a movie about the civil war in El Salvador; it seemed appropriate being there and all, muy muy ...
cam
... unmade roads to get to a very unimpressive urban exterior. Became obvious from the secure, closed nature of all houses and shops that El Salvador has more crime than any of the places in Guatemala visited. Took a bus into the centre to check out the ...
Santa Ana
... in the lady said she had to check if people were finished!! Seems we had wandered into a sometime brothel. If you're ever in Santa Ana don't stay in the Hotel Viajero. What's worse was what we found in the dvd player....a disc marked xxx....say no more. ...
the return of the Kevin
We are mostly unimpressed with Santa Ana, known as ¨the colonial seat of old money,¨ according to our guidebook. Our arrival, after a two-and-a-half hour bus ride through nasty back roads from Juayua, is met with a smelliness that deeply ...
Oooh, hello Mr Pupusa
... Lauren and I arrived in San Salvador grumpy, sweaty and exhuasted from no sleep. We managed to get a bus straight to Santa Ana and recovered with a delicious Salvadorean creation known as the Pupusa. Beans, cheese and pork stuffed into corn dough, patted ...
Bee Sting, Sun Burn, Spider Bite and some walking
... Cerro Verde. From here there are 2 hikes, one up Volcan Santa Ana and 1 up Volcan Izalco. On this particular day Santa Ana was closed due to activity, which was fine with us as we had come to hike Izalco. This was an interesting volcano hike as we ...
¿Hey, Where you from?
... slight apprehension with comments like. "You´ve got to be careful they will shoot you"!. A quick synopsis for you. Born: El Salvador Grew up: Texas Profession: Drug running Marital Status: Possibly married to 3 or 4 different women (one who ...
Day Trip to Santa Ana
... bank and the safe in the basement has a historical display of Salvadoran money from Cocoa beans, to Spanish Reales, to Colones. El Salvador has used the American Dollar since 2001. I caught the 12:30 bus back to Juayua and made a quick stop at ...
Semana Santa in Santa Ana
From Copan, Honduras, we crossed briefly in and out of Guatemala and arrived in Santa Ana, El Salvador, at tea time. The bus left us at a big shopping mall on the edge of town. We haven't been in a shopping mall since Panama and the bright lights and ...
Javier's house and hiking our first volcano
Having moved on to a new town in El Salvador, we took the recommendation of our friends from Juayua and decided to lodge at Casa Frolaz. It is an actual home, owned by a really nice man named Javier Diaz. He is from El Salvador, born and raised as the ...
Lago de Coatepeque and Juayua's food fair
... find a couple from Israel we had met the day before on our hike. Hila and Guy were enjoying the afternoon over a Pilsner (El Salvador's beer which is available EVERYWHERE and costs usually $1-$1.25 per bottle). It is a beautiful lake and the water is ...
Nuestros Pequeños Hermanos
am living and working for nuestros pequeños hermanos in el salvador, a home for orphaned and abandoned children. my blogs from the road can now be found here: ...
South to El Salvador
... hikers base themselves for treks into the mountains. We immediately got on another bus, which then took us the rest of the way to Santa Ana - El Salvador´s 2nd city. Dropped of on the wrong side of the big busy market, it took us ages in the hot sun to ...
Another Crater lake and Volcano conquered
Santa Ana is the third largest city in El Salvador and also the dirtiest. I had come from Leon, in the highlands where I was surrounded by mountains and tropical plants and wildlife. Up there a cool breeze was blowing and the air was clear. Down here, ...
El Salvador
... wollte (der halbe Bus schlief...), danach eine Gruppe von Clowns und schliesslich noch eine Frau, die ueber Drogen informierte. Santa Ana In San Salvador hopsten wir sofort auf einen Bus nach Santa Ana - wir waren wohl gerade mal 10 Minuten in San ...
santa ana rest stop
nothing new to write really. we are having a rest day as the weather did not cooperate with a volcano hike or a ruins visit. this hostel is someone´s private home. there are 2 peace corps workers staying here ...
Destination Postcard
... round the town centre which had attractive colonial buildings before Carlos kindly gave us a lift down to the bus. Our next stop will be at the coast so that we can take in (probably only by watching rather than doing) El Salvador's famous surf ...
Week Two!
Helloooo! Checking in from Santa Ana, our 4th stop off on this el salvadorian adventure! Our few days have been awesome... we stayed in La mora a small community off a main road. It was one of those places that you could see from the road but that ...
Our bubble world
... . Ok bye, Love Kirsten We have arrived!! Blake, please don´t kill me after you read this! We are in El Salvador, in a great town called Santa Ana. It´s very beautiful, and not at all like San Salvador. It is clean, and full of young people. ...
Santa Ana
The bus journey to Santa Ana in El Salvador, which should have taken about 2 hours max, took 4 mainly because the young guy working on the collectivo from Chiqimula dropped off every one of his 4 girlfriends right at their doors which were sometimes at ...
"We are definitely not in Guatemala anymore"
... crossing bus, but couldn't manage to sneak on a enormous bag of sugar. Confusing security techniques. Crossed a bridge between GUA and El Salvador as the only gringos on the bus. I like when this happens as you feel like you didn't pay a ...
Alajuela -La Cruz -Granada -San Lorenzo -Santa Ana
... up with them further up the road where we enjoyed a coffee and a chat in their lovely cosy camper van. Densely populated El Salvador is the smallest country in Central America. We believe it has it's fair share of stunning vistas, mountain peaks, no ...
The day I was a TV star in El Salvador!
... let us look around a little,in the pretty gardens. Then we left & the guys asked if we wanted to CLIMB the active volcano Santa Ana - OH YES, WE SQUEAKED, so were driven to another part of the park! The guys looked around for a policeman to ask ...
Hanging with the Fam
On our way back to Santa Ana, we stopped in San Salvador for a dose of Westernism. Kim needed her dose because she was suffering from homesickness. Let us say, the malls of San Salvador are impressive. The one we checked out was over-the-top ...
Most dangerous country in Central?
... 't really want to do it now and it´ll still be there when i´m heading North after S. America! So, off to El Salvador i go...apparently the country with the highest homicide rate in Central America (and thus the Western hemisphere...probably). Chicken ...