Hotel King Palace San Miguel

... pretty good progress seeing as our journey was taxi - microbus - chicken bus - tuk-tuk - bus, and our stop-over in San Miguel gave us the opportunity for yet another early night, in an air-conditioned room and everything! Next up, an early start and our arrival at Puerto La Libertad where we will be hitting the beaches again for a few days.<br>

... out to show to the Policia and of course Devin is still playing dumb (and I am doing my best to do so as well). The young cop, he can&#8217;t be over 22, starts to look at the extinguisher as the other cops start to circle the car (no doubt looking for other &#8216;infractions&#8217; they can write us up for). Before I know it there is an explosion sound and HUGH white cloud of powder everywhere!!! I can&#8217;t even see!!! Once the cloud clears I realize ...

... hills dotted with high peaks poking through, clouds rolling in the valleys. Most people come to Perquin for only a couple things: the war museum and El Mozote. Heavy, heavy fighting took place in this area of El Salvador during the war and Perquin became the headquarters of the guerrillas, of which the museum and remnants of war testify. Staying in a rather dank hostel (Real Perquin), I spent my time elsewhere. In the morning I headed to El Mozote, a ...

... Durban back home. And apparently in El Salvador by public pool they mean public urinal. We had paid our money to get into the "park" so we figured we might as well do a quick circuit of the gardens, which were almost on par with the pools, and made a swift exit. Bring on bus number 6. The one saving grace was that our hotel had aircon and a TV and so this is where we spent the rest of our time.

After San Salvador the next place I ended up at was the beautiful town of Suchitoto. Like so many other towns in El Salvador there were beautiful Spanish colonial style buildings and a mini carnival in the square. Whenever I arrived at a place during the weekend there always seemed to be some kind of party. The hotel I stayed in was situated on the side of a hill overlooking a lake filled with lily pads. So many of them that, at times, as I ...

Wednesday November 4th I am really beginning to lose track of the days and dates. If it were not for my journal I would have no idea what day is it. Once again the weather is beautiful. We left the hotel a little later this morning as we needed to go to the bank and exchange our Queztal´s ( Guatemalan currency ) back to U.S. dollars. Over breakfast this morning we needed to decide if we were going to take ...

Tuesday November 4th It is another beautiful day in Antigua, again I slept poorly last night which has been the norm for the last week. The Hostel owner George whipped up an excellent breakfast. During breakfast I made a list of questions that I felt we needed to ask at border crossing. George´s command of English is excellent and he translated them into Spanish for me. We hit the road early knowing that we needed to leave Guatemala ...

... is far more sparse and the main town, Perquin, is little more than a tiny central square and a few houses dotted about. Perquin was the stronghold of the FMLN, the guerilla group, during the civil war in El Salvador between 1981 and 1992. Perquin is now the only place in El Salvador to have any kind of museum about the war. Our spanish speaking guerilla-turned-guide told us all about the war and the many martyrs who are celebrated at the museum, describing how they fought ...

... the place has no water and no electricty, they drink the rain water and cook with it, and use candles at night), the lady cooked us dinner, which was the same as breakfast: beans from the garden, eggs from the chicken, cheese from the cow and homemade tortilla. The owner, a mum of two grown adults, live there with her adoptive daughter, who in turn has two small children. A third child lives ...

... so, the clouds would roll in, literally, like on the ground. I saw bats and rays from street lamps lighting the freshly tiled and shiny central square. Because of the position of the town, the whole sky became like mother nature´s movie theater. Lightning, thunder, and rain rain rain. Like I said, it might take some time for the pics, but they will be worth it. You can reread the entire adventure with visuals. Hm?