Hotel Bellerive 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 ...

... 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 ...

... Here they are learning to make pinatas and other handcrafts to sell.<br><br>Our gift from these people was music, which they included us in, giving us songsheets, and testimonials, and a dad who wrote a song just for us. Very humbling.<br><br>Susie had gone with group 1 which went to an elderly site. They served them a lunch and handed out supplies. Susie decided to sponsor an elderly woman when we all returned to the project for lunch. Yea, Susie!

... 100. <br> <br> After lunch we went upstairs, where the women were working on trying to figure out how to make purses to sell, until the sewing machine blew out...nothing new, a normal set back when you are constantly working with things that are second hand. Hopefully we'll be able to get it fixed? Any one know of a cheap way to ship a sewing machine? <br> <br> Tomorrow I'm going to work in the milpa picking corn...I hope I can reach it! :)<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br>

... Juan) of a friend (Rene) of my girlfriend (Amy, my travel companion). If that sounds strained, I should add that I don't speak much Spanish, Amy speaks none, and Leonel speaks no English. I had spoken to Juan on the phone, and he told me to call Leonel and that we would be taken care of while there. Ah, the best laid plans of Salvadorans... Of the four or five bus lines providing service between Guatemala City and El Salvador, only one stopped in Santa Ana. It left from its ...

... breifly looking at my passport he than tells me I'm ok to cross. Kind of bewildered I asked if I needed an exit stamp to cross over, he just smiled and said no your fine.Continuing on to El Salvador I crossed the border on foot and only realized that I had passed the El Salvadorian immigration office when a money changer approached me. I literally was an Illegal alien in El Salvador...lol. Trecking back to the office I made my way in and was asked for my passport. After a brief Q&amp;A ...

... were there. There was the lake of course, but it was dirty and apparently full of mercury and really not so nice to look at. The morning we travelled, Rikki wasn't feeling very well, and by the time we got there he was really not feeling well. When he didn't inhale his lunch like he nomally does, I knew something was up. We went back to the room around 2pm and he stayed in ...

... 36h plus tard que je me rendrai compte de l'erreur fatale que je venais de comettre.... J'allais passer 24h sur les toilettes.... Mais le surf de l'apres midi etait sympa, la premiere fois en ce qui me concerne. Nous decidions de laisser nos affaires sur la plage pendant que nous batifolions dans l'eau. Apres une heure j'etais epuise, je ne sentais plus mes bras, j'avais froid et manquais de me noyer a chaque nouvelle vague, ne reussissant d'ailleurs pas une seule ...

... what the town is all about, I should probably give a (very) brief description of the Civil War that took place in El Salvador between 1980 and 1992 (with some help from Wikipedia). It basically came about when "reform-minded groups [who had] emerged to challenge the alliance of the right-wing military and the landowning oligarchy" in the 60s decided that they had no other means of creating change, other than "militant demonstrations and terrorism". The core of the rebel group ...