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A city of malls and machine guns
... of armed guards where ever you turn. Its kind of weird wandering to the corner shop, saying hi to everyone and being the only one not weilding a shotgun or machine gun. They take safey seriously there apparently.
There wasnt a whole lot of cultural activities to soak up so Im gonna say that the trips to the mall were part of my insight into El Salvaorian life, plus the banana splits were pretty good there.
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Day trip to the lake
... and that on the lake, just like home really. After we finished our drinks we gave the car a push start and headed home.
Once we got back on the main freeway, there was a couple of cops doing the radar gun sniping people off for tickets. Suprise, suprise we were pulled over. We weren't done for speeding (it was physically impossible for this car to speed), it was just a "routine" check. So, they gave ...
San Salvador Day 3
... Feel like I know the city pretty well now, hah. Can't decide what to do tomorrow, getting my passport back at 230pm which makes it too late and too early to do anything... Great. Not much to say about the evening except my stomach hurts a lot, and still a headache, though that is a bit better. The intestinal pain was intense and kept me from getting any sort of decent sleep. I ...
El Zonte Day 1
Woke up, made breakfast and packed my backpack (with everything in its own plastic bags this only takes about 5 minutes). Grabbed a chicken bus north. First one passed me by and honked... No idea. Next one stopped though and they opened up the back and I hopped in. The back is where they sometimes put people with luggage, so I was back there with a couple other people and their... wait for it... boxes of live chickens hah! Did not take long to get to El ...
A Quick Central American Surf Safari
... was just some board dings and I got a black eye... at least it made me look tough! We jumped into the back of a truck and headed to a really small “town” of El Zonte. We ended up spending most our time in El Salvador here, where there was another great wave right in front of our hostel and a couple breaks a short ride away. We got around by a “taxi” that was just a truck with a lumber rack we held onto. One of the ...
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