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Just a quick blog entry from an internet cafe in San Salvador. And yeah, by the way, the picture above is not really from El Salvador, it is some random beach in Costa Rica. We are choosing the pictures from a Kilroy Blogs database, but it does not seem to have any picture from this whole country. What can I say, El Salvador is yet to be discovered by travelers!
Our couple of days on the coast in Playa El Tunco are over , and we had a lot of good time there. We did not do much, mostly chilling in a hammock, swimming in waves and watching the sunset at a local beachfront restaurant. Not too bad! We met a lot of interesting people, including 45+ year old Bob from Las Vegas, who decided to make a 4 month trip to Central America after being laid off from work. Yeah, the economy sucks, but you could spend your unemployment checks a lot worse than on the coast of El Salvador.
We also met another Finnish guy on the beach, for the first time in over a month! Michelle was swimming at the same time with an English speaking couple, and was certain that he was from Finland because of his English accent. I was not that sure, but after he came from the water in his Speedo underwear, put raybans and a baseball cap on and started to drink beer, I started to think that maybe he really is from Finland. And after he took a red Ferrari t-shirt from his backpack and put that on, we both knew that he could not have been from anywhere else than Finland.
We have been back in the capital San Salvador for a day, because our bus to San Pedro Sula in Honduras leaves at seven in the morning. We are really glad that we came, because we have started to like this city a lot in its own way. It seems to be full of action, and the people are extremely nice. We never got to see the former guerrilla region of Morazan in this country, but I got my civil war fix today in a museum that presented a lot of pictures about the rebel forces, and we also saw a short movie about the Salvadoran civil war. It is so amazing how history is present here, as pretty much the same sides than in the war are competing right now about the presidency - only democratically now. We also visited some of the main sites in the center of San Salvador, including a church where Oscar Romero, a liberation theologist who was murdered by the government forces in 1981 is buried.
Soon we´ll go to bed so that we can catch the 7 o´clock bus in the morning. The plan is to cross the border to Honduras and first go to a city called San Pedro Sula, from where we are trying to catch directly another bus to La Ceiba on the coast. La Ceiba is the main hub for the ferries to the Bay Islands, but there is also a lot to do in the city itself. The coast is also full of small Garifuna villages that we planned to visit before getting (probably) to the island of Roatan on the Bay Islands of Honduras.
More about the Garifunas and the other interesting things here in our next blog entry.
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