Juayua Hostels - Reviews and Rates

Saturday, 8/15:

-Finally got to San Salvador around 11:15 local time (1:15 am at home), after being delayed in Miami for quite awhile! In Miami, a nice Salvadoran man helped me pass the time by showing me around 300 pictures of his vacation to South Dakota, Wyoming and Montana with his daughter who lives in South Dakota. My Spanish isn't ...

De nieuwe latin mobiel maakte een tering herrie....nog geen tijd gehad om het volume aan te passen...zo druk, hahahahaha. Enfin, het is 7.30 (we hebben vakantie...) en om 8 uur moeten we gereed zijn. Gelukkig waren net op tijd onze kleren gewassen en weer retour zodat we een vers setje aan konden trekken. Wat gaan we doen vandaag....we gaan voor...

We expected to have to move to a hotel tonight, because Fabrizio is leaving for Italy this morning, but he insisted that we stay. So who were we to say no. Juan, yet another friend of the same friend, picked us up early this morning and took us to his coffee mill just outside of Juayua. The drive up was nice, along the Ruta de las Flores. The Ro...

Tracy and I finally made it to El Salvador after a couple of excruciatingly long bus rides from Pana that started at 6am. After we finally got to our destination of Santa Ana we were less than pleased, but decided to check out the hostels from the Lonely Planet guide book anyway. We had our taxi driver, Ishmeal, drive us to three places at $3 a ...

After a lengthy stroll on the beach at los Cobanos, the strangest place I´ve encounterd, we caught the 10am bus to Sonsonate, which according to the guidebook is a hell hole, but we thought it looked quite nice (we did only really see the bus staiton and environs I might add, its a regional hub with buses heading off in all directions to Santa A...

Apart from the homage to gluttony every weekend, El Salvador's few tourists are concentrated around Juayua withthe aim of zipping up and down the Ruta de las Flores on psychadelic pimped up ex-US schoolbuses. Four or five villages stretch from here to the Guatemalan border, all quiet, cobbled, highland and with hippy flowers painted on most avai...

One of the reasons I came to Juayua was that I had read in the guidebook that there was a Gastronomic Fair every weekend. So I arrived on Friday, January 16 anticipating a weekend of exotic and delicious foods...but my hopes were dashed! The weekly festival was canceled because of the municipal elections! Not only that, I found out too late that...

Crossed over into El Salvador not quite knowing what to expect- while travelling in Central America, even moreso than other regions, you tend to hear countless differing opinions on any one destination. But like El Salvador immediately, travelling the scenic Ruta de las Flores into the mountain village of Juayua. As with so many places I´ve been...

The bus ride up here was stunning. Winding roads up into the highlands through coffee plantations and fantastic vistas all round. The town itself was small and quaint - a bit like a tiny Antigua.

Every weekend there is a food fair, drawing both internal tourists and international ones. There´s no denying that this place is touristy (tour...

Today Rikki made us wake up at 6am! to start travelling towards the boarder. We caught a half hour long boat ride through the mangroves and waited for our chicken bus on the other side. It took us three short bus rides to get to the boarder and we totally saw chickens on the chicken bus! A woman had a bag with 2 chickens in it and she let me tak...