Country Info
- San Salvador
- Capital
- El Salvador Colon (SVC)
- Currency
- 6,237,662
- Population
- SV
- Country Code
El Salvador Slideshow
El Salvador
Travel Blogs from El Salvador
Shopping on the Bus
... can do all your shopping while arriving to your destination. No kidding, on this particular day I got on the bus in San Salvador to go to La Palma. The usually venders got on selling sliced fruits, nuts, beverages, tortillas, fried chicken, ice ...
My First Traveller's "D"
This is a top pick! ... in my system. As I woke up this morning, the sun was shining again, we packed and left San Pedro, on our way to El Salvador (the country). In my weakened state, Juliette made most of the planning for this part. We took the boat to Santiago Atitlan ...
The upper class San Salvador
This is a top pick! ... he drove off. The city view from the back of the pickup was different than anything I have experienced, to my surprise, San Salvador was much cleaner and greener than Guatemala City and the traffic was not too bad. He drove very fast swerving from lane ...
Sanny Sal you suprised me
... cheap, none of the $15 shit in NA), caught a cab back to our hostel, and slept in the most lumpy, creaky bed Ive experienced travelling. Lol, oh well, cant win em all. San Salvador suprised me...I must say that Im so happy that I went! ...
The Civil War.....
... . We ended up belting out some songs at a local karaoke bar! We are both so pleased that we made the effort to visit El Salvador. We only stayed 5 nights here, but have really learnt alot and loved the people. Back to school soon! ...
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 ...
Election Day
... no food fair, I had a delicious kebob for lunch. I'm glad to have found this place and get a better feeling about El Salvador. It's unfortunate that the city violence mars this country's image because I do think the people here are the finest ...
The beach again - finally!
Finally we are at the beach again and on the Pacific side where there are waves! We had high hopes to surf here, but actually the surfing isn´t so great unless you like surfing close outs all day. Oh well, at least we got to cool off after a ...
El Salvador
From Antigua i didnt go to GuateCity, instead took the southern turn along the Pacific coast to El salvador. Borderentry: Not quite as fast as Guatemala, but about 1 hour and easy plus friendly. If you have a car you "certainly" pass by all ...
History
This is a top pick! Our last stop in El Salvador was in the tiny town of Perquin. Perquin is set in the far eastern part of El Salvador, relatively close to the Honduras border. The town itself is rather small, but it´s known for being one of the main guerilla ...
Waterfalls and Ruins
... other witnesses and that we didn't really have anything to offer so when our bus came we got on it. I had read that El Salvador had many many pedestrian deaths and that motorists do not stop if you're in the way. Lesson learned and I will ...
Bonfires and Sea Turtles: Mizata, El Salvador
... entering Nicaragua. This went smoother. After exchanging our leftover Quetzales for the American dollar, oddly enough (El Salvador went through dollarization to help the economy), we got our stamps and payed a bicycle rickshaw a dollar ...
Antigua 40 years ago....
... the whole town to yourself and perhaps a few other curious travelers. Brief history lesson until about 1996 the brutal el salvadorian civil war left suchutitoto virtually abandonded but now slowly people are coming back, its being promoted by the ...
cam
... - pretty good! Dessert was ice cream, with freebies for the snake owners kids - this enabled us to cuddle the boa for free! Headed for El Salto de Chorro to cool off - what was described as an easy 20 min walk turned out to be a challenging 30 mins, some ...
Semana Santa in Santa Ana
... along with nicely. So although we'd only planned to stay one night, we hung out a little longer... Santa Ana itself is El Salvador's second city. We weren't expecting to like it much but were pleasantly surprised to find it's quite charming. ...
San Salvador
This is a top pick! John and I spent the day today exploring the city of San Salvador. It´s busy, crowded, and the streets are jam-packed with people selling anything you can think of (but especially DVDs). We visited a few of the sights around town, including ...
on huevos, hatchlings and hospitals
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 ...
Up before sun rise, And off to El salvador
... to hang out in guatemala longer and enjoy some yoga and relaxation time and i Was determined to visit El salador. So hear i am, I just arrived in san salvador and am being hosted by someone from a site called couchsurfing. its sorta like hitch hiking ...
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 ...
Day 1 - Royal Decameron
Day 1 of the El Salvador adventure. The hotel is amazing. I will attach pictures so that you can see ...
Lago Yajoa
Because it rained most of Monday, I hadn't taken a hike along the trails on the lodge property to look at birds so I decided to get up early Tuesday and take a hike before I left the area. The highlight was seeing a keel billed toucan - what a ...
Suchitoto city of Art (and Rain)
Just hit Suchitoto in the pouring rain in fact a Thunderstorm. I must of overdone my rain dance after the oppressive heat of the ...
Salcoatitan -Trapped by rain in quaint village
... no issues getting the permits for Wesley, which was free of charge…Bonus! Furthermore, passing through customs we forgot Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua have an agreement and it is one charge for all, with a 90-day travelers visa. ...
Flowers
This is a top pick! ... nbsp; Today we broke away and headed for a change of pace -- weee little tiny towns. Specifically, there´s an area in western El Salvador known as the Ruta del Flores (route of the flowers), named after the wildflowers that bloom here around this time ...
Colonial time again
... very relaxed air to the place, with few people around and not many tourists at all. That kind of goes for the whole of El Salvador, where its reputation as a violent country still does it great harm. From our visit there it seemed to be a fairly ...
El Salvador in a Rush
Companeros, This week I have been running all over El Salvador. Bus from San Sal. to Suchitoto, to La Palma. Back to San Sal, then to Juayua to the north. Then back to San Sal., then to Perquin far to the south in the mountains. Today, I woke ...
Story time with Don Pablo
... , it took 12 years of war. Questioning what they were being spoonfed led to the creation of rebel groups amongst the workers in El Salvador. The promise of funds and arms from Cuba followed, but only if they united, thus, the FMLN was formed. Guerilla ...
