Hilton Princess San Salvador

... to nothing. For example any bus trip around the city costs 20 cents US and my trip to the coast was only 80 cents in total for a bus that took me about 50km. Bloody brilliant!! The beaches in El Salvador have great surfing which was evident when I arrived, not least because the place is packed with lots of surfers from all over the world. Unfortunately the sand on the beaches is derived from the volcanic rocks and so is black which is not the greatest for sun bathing ...

... lowering in the sky, more and more surfers are coming out to play; and the sunlight twinkling over the ocean is surreal and magical, almost ghostly as the waves shimmer and shine. I can see me staying here for a while.

El Salvador’s currency is the dollar which takes some getting used to and as a consequence is more expensive than its northern neighbour, or maybe it’s because I’ve been stocking up on shampoo, shower gel etc that it ...

... and anywhere close to where she lives, so everyone relies on pickup trucks to take them places, but one pick up ride is $2 per person! Cruz and her family live in extreme poverty. There house is made of mud and sticks, and there is only one room that only fits two very small twin bed sized pillows. Water can´t be piped in, so everyone relies on river water, which is very contaminated and during summer, (right now it´s the winter rainy season), there is ...

... public transport. Add to it hundreds of red subcompact taxis that are constantly honking and zipping around like beat up little tic tacs. The potholed roads and cracked sidewalks are narrow and lined with improvised wood and tarp stalls selling everything from pirated DVDs for fifty cents to fruits to bras and panties to used looking clothing. These stalls spill out into the road and block access to the other stores actually located in a building and make walking ...

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Today was just a relax day for us! We went to this great lake. It was man made but it was sooo beautiful! We took a boat ride around the lake and that was alot of fun! We spent most of our day there! We shopped and almost went on this zip line, but we couldnt:(

On the way home we stopped by Oscar Romeros tomb. It ...

... weird and just not cool but anyway.   I made sure I understood him, which I did.   I looked at him and told him that yes that is what the US looks like but you need to understand that the majority of El Salvadoreans are actually richer and freer than Americans.  Americans are mostly living on credit, on easy loans offered by the banks and now most Americans have become slaves owned by the bankers. (yes my Spanish is ...

... have a cold shower tomorrow! Since we will be digging the clinic's foundation tomorrow morning, I don't think I will have to test how cold it is until tomorrow afternoon. I'm watching CNN in Spanish now and am almost ready to crash. I need for this cold to go away. I was going to take some Coriciden D, but found that it was over 1 year out of date. I'll take a couple Tylenol instead and look for something tomorrow.

Our first day on the bus to Mexico was long but not too uncomfortable and we reached San Salvador in El Salvador early evening. Earlier that day we had travelled out of Nicaragua from Managua all the way through Honduras with no problems. As it is meant to be one of the most violent cities in the world, we stayed in the Tica bus hotel, only venturing out once in a taxi ...

... things on * simple b*rbecue (see pic). The problem is th*t pupus*s suck. A corn tortill* with * sliver of filling is only one tiny step *bove * corn tortill* without filling, *nd th*t is the L*tino equiv*lent of rice, bre*d, o*ts, grits, t*ro, pot*to, p*st* or tofu - che*p t*steless c*rbohydr*te filler for the poor. It is not food; it holds food up. If it c*n only be stom*ched with lots of condiment, se*soning, s*uce, butter or sug*r, it sucks ...