San Salvador, El Salvador || An Introduction
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, El Salvador, Central America
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,...
Juayúa, El Salvador, Central America
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...
Parque Nacional Los Volcanes, El Salvador
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...
Santa Ana, El Salvador, Central America
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...
Antigua, Guatemala
A pictorial look at a return to UNESCO-listed Antigua in Guatemala, one of Central America’s most historic & most photogenic Colonial towns.
Santiago Atitlan, Guatemala
The last of the central highland Mayan villages I visited during this trip to Guatemala was Santiago Atitlan, a 90-minute boat ride across Lake Atitlan, Central America’s deepest lake, from my base in Pana. Time for a boat ride on Lago de Atitlan Day 445...
Chichicastenango (Chichi), Guatemala
The most famous of the Guatemalan highland village markets, and probably the most famous market in Central America (& certainly the most photographed), is the one in Chichicastenango, or Chichi for short. On Thursday & Sunday, market days, the local indigenous...