Suites Las Palmas San Salvador

... malls and western chains like pizza hut, the centre of San Salvador is absolute carnage. I have not seen a more run-down and decrepit place on my whole journey (except for maybe Belize City). I eventually found one of the hotels "recommended" in the guide book and after seeing the room I quickly fled. I couldn't even find the other hotel so after escaping to the bus terminal I worked on plan B. Fortunately the bus company had found my hat and would have it at the ...

It has been a very busy past few days! Lots to write about! I´m sorry there aren´t any pictures yet, I really am trying, it´s just that the internet is painfully slow and doesn´t allow it! Hopefully soon I´ll be able to figure out how to upload some! <br><br>On Saturday we went to La Libertad, which is another state in El Salvador, to a town called San Juan Opico. One of the children I live with, Raymundo, was adopted into my family because his family could ...

... the help of a guy behind the counter in a baseball hat and apron, I chose carefully off a handwritten dry erase board mounted below a wall fan and for $2.25 got a huge plate of carne azada, macaroni salad, rice and two thick papusas grilled up right there in the front window. A papusa is like a tortilla that is about 1/4 inch thick. <br><br>A steady stream of office workers on lunch break kept the place busy, and we took our places in line behind five ladies in ...

... adorable baby in the circle. While I was up on the little stage getting the instructions for the distribution, a little kid came up to Pat and just gave him the baby, before he even had to ask if he could hold her! It was so cute watching them together, and a little crowd gathered. I wanted to take a picture but was busy but I asked Yessenia and she took some.<br><br>The distribution went well. I would call the names, Pat would check the ID ...

... volunteering in while I'm here. I was told multiple times today that Trini is so happy to have me, since she won't be getting any German volunteers this year. She is so busy! When we arrive at 7am, we eat breakfast quick, and then open up the shelter. Two women are in the kitchen upstairs, making around 250 tortillas and Trini and I were downstairs painting crosses, which is how the Hope House makes a little money to operate. Carmen and Milagro are the women in ...

... en gaan we zo een paar uurtjes pitten. Het is hier veilig want er staat beveiliging voor de deur met geweren. Overigens werkt 20% van de bevolking van El Salvador in de privé beveiliging....bijna iedere winkel heeft z´n eigen mannetje voor de deur.<br>Morgen om 4.00 u gaat de wekker voor een rit van 12 uur, via Honduras, naar Managua Nicaragua. Ik hoop dat het goed gaat bij de grens overgangen....en verder is het een kwestie van de tijd uitzitten. <br>Trusten!!<br><br>

... Watch a bonfire on the beach 12:00am - ?????  :) Playa El Tunco located on the Pacific Side of the country, was a great surf town that had plenty of waves, good food, and great people. While there for a week I met some of the coolest group of people on this trip yet. Special thanks to Ida &amp; Ameri from Norway, Simon from Denmark, &amp; Tom from the UK for making this past week one of memories. Hope you all enjoy the updates.

... thru the street follow by a float of small children dressed as Doctors, Lawyers and Nurses throwing sweets to the gathering hordes. Next, desiring a trip out to a nearby waterfall with rock formations very similar to Giants Causeway, we were informed for our safety that we must take a police escort and were treated with a ride and two heavily armed uniformed tour guides. On the way back bizarrely they dropped us off a ...

... Je prefere un reveil tranquille et propose alors de le rejoindre l'apres midi. Il ne me laissera pas me reposer longtemps car a 10h tappantes il revient de la plage, les yeux tout rouges et l'air tout penaud. Les genoux tranblottants et le souffle coupe il me raconte....: 'Ba je suis alle louer ma planche, j'ai suivi les pros jusqu'a la pointe rocheuse, sur de moi quoi, mais le temps de me rappeler les regles basiques de l'equilibre j'etais deja dans des ...

... process would then be repeated later. Good times. The following day it was time to head north towards a little town called Perquin, close to the Honduran border. I was greeted in the morning by a beautiful blue sky, whose lack of any clouds at all meant that it was even hotter than the previous few days (something that I hadn´t even thought possible). But three hours on a bus later, I arrived in Perquin in the midst of a tropical rainstorm - it´s incredible how quickly the weather can ...