Hotel Las Cabanas de Apaneca Ahuachapan

... choice as it was closest. Did try to take a taxi but driver didn't know it &amp; refused to take me! So slogged over unmade roads to get to a very unimpressive urban exterior. Became obvious that El Salvador has more crime from the secure, closed nature of all houses and shops.<br><br>Took a bus into the centre to check out the famed gothic church &amp; theatre - completely underwhelming! The highlight was a stop in the Sin Rival ...

No news from the others so we set off for El Salvador.<br>The rest of Guatemala was not quite so mountainous, more just hilly. The farming in general seemed mostly small scale.<br>We got stopped at road works, for an hour while they shifted a load of rubble and boulders from the road, part of road a widening scheme not a landslide this time.<br>We kept the locals amused with our stories of where ...

... bus is een constante stroom verkopers actief. Ze stappen voor in en gaan via de achterdeur de bus weer uit. Ze schreuwen allemaal door elkaar om hun handel aan te prijzen.....het was weer een bonte vertoning, maar zeer vermakelijk! En veel handel word gewoon in een schaal op het hoofd gedragen.<br>Om een uur of drie kwamen we aan in Juayúa. Een mooi groen dorpje!<br>De hostel die we in gepland hadden had alleen dorms, maar even verderop zit ...

... s house for a bit, speculated on certain architectural features it had (such as square holes through the walls into many of the rooms, presumably for ventilation), and then walked down the extensive patios used for drying the beans. We watched the workers bringing in the day's vegetable harvest and preparing it for el Mercado mañana. There was a great deal of inefficiency in the work flow, which my six sigma self wanted to jump in and fix. Juan was apparently ...

... we wanted to be anyway as its the beginning of the Ruta del Flores. The bus we took was a local, and to say it was interesting doesnt really say it at all. When we got off the bus we realized we had gotten of at the wrong stop and hopped on another, this time with no more cash since we spend it all on buses and taxis throughout the day. Luckily(?) after the driver realized Tracy and I werent exactly getting along right then, and didnt have any money, he decided ...

This town was pretty much a stop off for us on our way to the coast. Not much to report as there was not a whole lot going on here. Having said that it was pretty cool being the only gringos around town-we were stared at a lot! Its nice to see what a El Salvadorian town does sans tourists.

... the rebar, it is tied to each vertical piece of rebar, and then mixing the concrete took most of the morning. All I did workwise to day was to mix a little concrete, a little mortar, and deliver a little of it to the masons. One of the different things I noticed was that the masons do not butter the ends of the block when they set them. They leave open cracks between the blocks and fill them with ...

... going through the neighborhood. And then only in spring or fall when we have the windows open. I am sitting here waiting for the breakfast call. I'm a little hungry and am looking forward to another bowl of cereal with hot milk. Breakfast was eggs, hot dogs (they look like hot dogs), fried plantains, and cornbread. Pretty good, but ...

... did not have access to health services. Even when people could see a doctor, many of them could not afford the medicine they needed. This ministry was started as an opportunity for poor people in Ahuachapan and surrounding areas to have access to health care. At the end of 2007 more than 32,580 people had been served by this clinic. These patients are from Ahuachapan, Tacuba, Ataco, Apeneca, Juayya, Turin, El Refugio ...

... Pastor Jose from the Eternal Rock Methodist Church came with his three sons. They all worked hard until we broke for lunch. This afternoon we mixed concrete and poured the foundation. We mixed the concrete by hand on the ground and used 5 80 pound bags of cement for each mix. They were easily the largest mixes of concrete I've ever done by hand. A truck to deliver concrete sure would be nice. Or even a mixer. Juan ...