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La Palma, El Salvador
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
of El Salvador and today there´s an international conference happening
down the path!! Delegates keep making themselves comfortable in my
hammock! I´ve worked out from the vehicles parked that they are
national park officials from Honduras and Guatemala as well as locals.
If I´d realised my peace was going to be disturbed to this extent 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 tired. I´m still
waking up at 5am even without the wretched church bells, there are
still roosters.
El
Salvador is surprisingly lush, with loads of different shades of
trees. I don´t really know what I was expecting, some sort of blasted
heath I guess.
I´d hoped I´d left the chicken buses behind in
Nicaragua, but the one I was on yesterday to La Palma had the least
legroom of any vehicle in existence.
