Los Almendros De San Lorenzo Suchitoto

... via taxi to the Terminal de Oriente bus depot, and then take another chicken bus 90 minutes to the highlands where Suchitoto is. All this would be in un airconditioned comfort along the Pacific coast in battered old school buses for about $20 total and I didn't know if I would even make it to my destination. <br><br>Well, for $35 I discovered I could take a luxury bus from King Quality Bus Lines in 7 hours between Teguc and San Salvador. That won ...

... that fits!! And some school supplies. We had things for the family too. She gave us a beautiful hand made card with a lovely note inside.<br><br>She is as fearless as ever and quick to tease Pat back when he teases her. They had a blast in the lake. I always enjoy visiting with Fati, her mom. She is not working now because she is nursing the baby.

... They rushed inside when they saw us. As we entered the courtyard, they were all lined up holding balloons, signs and flowers, and they all started clapping. It was wonderful! I shook hands and greeted as many kids as a I could. One little girl stepped out and hugged me around the legs. A group of children spelled out "Bienvenidos queridos padrinos" (welcome dear godparents)with one letter each hanging around their necks. So many smiles! <br><br>We sat in the church yard for a program put on ...

... toen we toch een beetje vreemd gevoel in de maag kregen. We passeerden plaatsen en steden welke we van te voren niet op onze geplande tocht verwacht hadden.....en voor we het wisten reden we El Salvador binnen...de hoofdstad...wat een vieze stinkstad!!<br>Eenmaal afgezet bij het eindpunt was een jongeman zo vriendelijk om ons uit te leggen dat de busjongen vergeten was ons te waarschuwen. De enige optie was een taxi te ...

... hadden gespannen.....en onze pick-up stopte er halverwegen mee omdat de ontsteking niet meer wilde.<br>We vervolgden de tocht in één pick up en de daggasten werden als eerste doorgereden naar de hot spring. Carlos kwam even later terug om ons op te halen en in de stromende regen hebben we een aantal uur doorgebracht in de hot tubs en in een met stenen afgezet stukje rivier waar we onder een warme waterval konden zitten tot het donker werd.<br>De daggasten werden teruggebracht en ...

... muck served with breakfast here. Saying that I always eat it. And scrambled eggs which I don't like. That evening there happened to be an opera performance as the end of the towns arts festival. It was only a dollar to get in and we saw a Peruvian soprano belt out some tunes while the posh local Salvadorans came out in their best clothes. It was actually really good, but we don´t have any previous opera experience to compare ...

... I´d have moved on. La Palma is an artists´ community up in the hills, bisected by the main road to Honduras and shaken by lorries all day. It needs a bypass. Most of the houses have beautiful artwork on the outside walls, but I take my life in my hands trying to photograph them. The highest point in El Salvador is just down the road and I was going to hike to its 2870m summit today but I´m too ...

... medium rare. The next night I wasn't very hungry and saw that they had ceviche on the menu - something I love! Usually it is listed as Ceviche de Pescado (fish) or Ceviche de Camarones (shrimp). For the uninitiated, ceviche is raw fish marinated in lime juice and herbs. What they had was Ceviche de Escabeches - a new one for me so I asked the traditionally dressed ...

... one in Central America!!!) and we got some groceries for the week. The YWAM base is different from the Cedeinfa, in that the base is more geared for the Discipleship training school and not so much for direct work in the communities - although that is done as well. The target group for this base is the local prostitutes and transvestites. They run a coffee house where people can go in to talk, and they hand out cookies and coffee to the ...

... who takes pleasure in things of a sick and twisted nature, and there will (probably) always be wars in which thousands of soldiers will kill thousands of other soldiers, but how could there have been so many "normal" people who were willing to murder innocent victims in such a disgusting, cold blooded manner? Anyway, in what turned out to be a very brief tour, Eduardo then showed me to the still-standing building where the unfortunate women had met their fate. Although the ...