I like travelling when I’m travelling but even so, today was a long, long day of Central American cross-border (chicken) bus travel. It’s 11 p.m. on June 5, 2013, & I’m in a city called Santa Rosa de Copan, the largest city in western Honduras...
In the taxi this morning en route to the bus terminal in San Salvador, El Salvador’s capital, I had a basic (& I mean basic) conversation with the jovial taxi driver. He garnered enough from me to know I was headed for Suchitoto, a small town about 50...
Today I took another stroll around San Salvador, El Salvador’s capital & Central America’s second largest city. I got brave, or at least braver than I was yesterday – I did bring a (proper) camera with me. And with little in the way of monuments...
I like cities. I always have. And having spent the last four nights soaking in the charming tranquillity of the mountain villages of Juayúa & Ataco in western El Salvador, I was looking forward to the obvious change of pace that a few nights in the El Salvadorian...
Concepción de Ataco is, after Juayúa, my second and last stop on the Ruta de Las Flores in western El Salvador. It’s yet another picturesque El Salvadorian colonial town, one awash with brightly painted street walls to complement the requisite cobbled streets,...
I’ve no idea why but I’ve just spent 3 nights in a small village in western El Salvador called Juayúa (pronounced ‘why-u-a’), one of many charming little country villages on the so-called Ruta de Las Flores (The Route of Flowers), a winding 36...
Now this is more like it. Having hardly laid my eyes on any of Guatemala’s 30 volcanoes, let alone scaled one, I was determined to take a run at the first volcano I saw here in El Salvador. So I did just that. All it took was an hour-&-a-bit on a bus from Santa...
I haven’t yet ventured too far as yet in El Salvador and not venturing too far in Central America’s smallest but most densely populated country really isn’t venturing too far at all. En route to El Salvador. Day 448. http://t.co/YXaH9p8A24 #travel #blog...