San Salvador R&R

San Salvador, El Salvador

After the usual exciting times crossing the Mexico/Guatemala border, and a long bus ride across Guatemala and El Salvador, we made it alive to our hotel in San Salvador. Since I took this exact same route from the exact same bus company less than 2 years ago, quite a bit has changed.

Long day on the bus

The bus company's ticket office has moved to a different location in Tapachula, leading to our almost booking with the wrong company, although the bus still left from the same terminal as before. This time, we had to change buses somewhere on the highway before we got to Guatemala City, which actually worked out really well, bypassing Guatemala City altogether and getting us into San Salvador about 3 hours earlier than last time. And finally, the bus did not stop at the same place in San Salvador as I remembered, which, after a bit of panic on my part, meant we actually got off closer to our hotel than I had anticipated.




Susanne picked our hotel because we had stayed here before and the location is very good, right behind the Galarias mall. Unfortunately the lot next door is under construction and they seem to like doing the noisy, banging type of work real early in the morning. Oh well, we probably shouldn't be sleeping so late anyway.

Hotel Villa del Angel

 

Typical San Salvador street

 
Today's job of the day was to get a local phone/data chip for our phone - this was successfully accomplished after only a 45 minute wait and a 30 minute negotiation at the Claro store in the mall. Tonight, we may take in the new Beatle's movie, which is playing at the theatres at the mall - if we can stay up late enough for the 8 o'clock showing.

Tomorrow, our good friend Lou has offered to pick us up and take us to the estuary, where he and Lynn have offered to put us up until we have the boat habitable again. All in all, life is good!

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