Locanda Trattoria Montesei San Salvador

... I didn't go swimming which was fortunate because that evening I found out from 3 travellers, a Kiwi guy, a Canadian girl and an Argentinian guy that the water is very infectious because all the creeks empty into the ocean. They had all suffered several ear and throat infections and had been constantly pumping themselves full of the antibiotic Amoxycilin which is incredibly cheap at 10 US cents (or something like that). Wow, what people will do for the love of good surf!

... no water in the river. Although none of the families in Opico have much, they can live really easily off of the land where they live. It was very breezy, and lots of fruits and vegetables just grow naturally where they live! Another motivation for us to go to San Juan Opico was to hunt for "anonas." Anonas are really popular out in the country, but in San Salvador they are really really expensive! It´s two dollars for one anona in the city, but in San ...

... exercise in caution. Buses and taxis are whipping down these narrow blocks while everyone is conducting their market business.<br><br>Now add to the mix a backdrop of concrete buildings past their prime painted in faded pastels that heat and humidity have taken their toll on. A jumble of wires connects all the buildings and market stalls to powerpoles and there is music blaring from most of these shops. It all just mixes together with the honking and people ...

... the turn off and there happens to be roads that you can turn on before you reach the actual road the sign is marking. <br><br>Today the sign was showing turn right to Centro Ciudad Playa EL Majahual. So we turn and end up dead-ending in what seemed to be someone's backyard. I sometimes wondered how often this happens to other people or is it possible we have become the clueless, stereotypical gringos&#8230; I would like to think ...

Hey!<br><br>Today was just a relax day for us! We went to this great lake. It was man made but it was sooo beautiful! We took a boat ride around the lake and that was alot of fun! We spent most of our day there! We shopped and almost went on this zip line, but we couldnt:(<br><br>On the way home we stopped by Oscar Romeros tomb. It ...

... station, which we reached by taxi from our hotel. The bus station was a covered parking area big enough for 2 busses, a ticket booth and seating for 20 people. We bought our tickets, not understanding what the agent was saying, and walked outside to look for a place to eat. The surrounding shops were all industrial and very unseemly. A guy standing around the station asked us what we were looking for. We said we wanted a place to eat, and he pointed to the second floor of the bus ...

... they handed me my passport and welcomed me to El Salvador. Bewildered again I asked don't I need a stamp? This time the officer was able to explain to me that US &amp; EU citizens don't need a stamp to travel between Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador &amp; Costa Rica. Apparently thier was an agreement signed between those countries that allows for travel up to 90 days. From there I headed to a nice Hostel in San Salvador for a couple days before I would head over to the beach for a week.

... for the rest of the night. He was burning up, and then he had the chills even though he felt hot. I got him some fever tablets from a pharmacy, but I was worried he had got some sort of parasite. Fortunately when he woke up the next morning he was 100% better. It was just some 24 flu or something. We spent the one day we were there swimming in a pool, and that's about it.

... a me mettre debout sur une planche qui, apres reflexion, ne semblait pas du tout adaptee a ma taille et a mon haut niveau d'experience.... J'abandonnais alors et revenais vers ce qu'il nous restait d'affaires.... L'equivalant de mes 5euros, habilement caches dans mon paquet de cigarettes avaient disparus. Alex, qui avait eu la brillante idee d'amener ses lunettes Armani (achetees 200$ 10 jours plus tot a Miami Beach) s'etonna a son tour de ne plus les ...

... was made up of poor campesinos (peasants / farmers), who had had enough of repression, poverty and lack of political freedom - all directly attributable (at least in their eyes) to the corrupt right wing government. When the US-backed-and-funded army realised that the guerillas were far too efficient a fighting force to be defeated via traditional combat, they began instead to focus on the extermination of the entire population of any guerilla-held territory - taking the water away ...