Hilton Princess San Salvador

... a couple of small buses and hit the road. What a lush and tropical country! The mountains go straight up, and on the sides of these mountains, there are fields of corn. Our first stop was a Quick Trip sort of place that had everything we needed--fresh bottled water, chips, a bathroom and an armed guard at the door. <br><br>We arrived at the hotel and had our orientation from ...

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... t know. After ten or so minutes we had one more passenger to pick up. Guess where the bus pulled up&#8230; my hostel. I called out to the driver that I was here, he let me know that he knew that, and instead went in and picked up one of the other people staying at my hostel. I could have been picked up at the same time. What a joke of a morning. <br> The bus took me back to that city I hate so much, Guatemala City. After an hour of driving it dropped me at ...

... can, so there was garbage everywhere, and a hen/chicks living inside. Meredith was saying that this home has been particularly difficult. Trash in general is a difficult habit to change; before everything was packaged in plastic, trash would be wrapped in banana leaves and thrown on the street and that was fine. Now, even though there is plastic, those plastic items are now what is thrown on the street. It is so ingrained that it is VERY hard to change. <br ...

... carrying my camera and invading privacy. I was told today that privacy doesn't really exist here. So, I will take some pictures for the rest of the week! <br><br>In the meantime, here are some pictures of where I'm staying,and one of the outside of the clinic...<br><br>NOTE: people here are SO nice -- Little kids and elderly women are hugging me, and today I got fed a whole loaf of bread by someone I do not know. I wish more people knew about how welcoming Salvadorans are.

... dark, and 2) I didn´t simply take a cheap and convenient taxi to a main square or a hostel, trying to find the way myself. Not such a great idea in the second biggest city in El Salvador, not to mention I was alone. But anyway, lesson learned. I spent much of Tuesday walking around Santa Ana, a city that´s lost it´s coffee boom glory but still has a certain working-class charm too it. On the central park loom an authentic gothic cathedral and a beautiful three level theatre ...

Head from Juayua down towards la Libertad. One thing you notice travelling the roads of El Salvador is the amount of European money flowing through the country. Just as every new road and sewerage scheme in Ireland not so long ago displayed signs with big blue flags, euros seems to be flodding in to build new schools, clinics and houses. It´s very much appreciated by the locals too. El Salvador is one of the world´s top surf spots- though the waves ...

... is a cycle. They´re like a group of lemmings, only dumber, as they have only sodas with which to hydrate. Fotunately, we don´t understand enough Spanish to agree to share our precious water supply, which thins out the lemmings after their instructors command several of them go back to fetch water for the group. The volcano is magnificent--completely void of life in the midst of lush forest. Toward the top, steaming holes sear our legs. The four ...

... we stopped by a house where an old lady rolled cigars in front of us that cost 25 cents and i tell you we got our 25 cents worth. Thet were disgusting. We then walked down to Suchitlan lake, an artifical lake formed when they dammed a river. You could hire a boat to take you round the lake but the boatman were asking for just too much money so we just sat and watched the world go past before heading back to the capital