El Sal
Arrived in El Salvador just today - wow, a blog that´s on time... can´t be!!! - and we are in the north eastern part in a small village called Perquin.
I´ll get to Perquin and El Sal in a moment, but I have to tell you about this MASSIVE F´N storm we went through near the Honduras/El Sal border last night. We were watching lightning hit 100 meters from the road and hearing the loudest sonic booms ever as we took the bus to the border town of El Amatillo. I thought we were going to need the Arc of the Covenants to get us through, there was so much water coming down. Lulu, being the paranoid she is, was sort of freaking out about the lightning until I reassured her (3 times) that we were OK in the bus. Once we arrived the bus driver looked at us and made the ´last stop folks´ sign and instead of heading across the 600 meter border area into Niaragua and getting completely drenched - we headed for the nearest hotel - just 250 feet away... and got just as completely drenched. Sometimes there IS such a thing as too much rain. I think my feet are still wet as I write this today, actually.
Anyway... Back to Perquin. Perquin is near a village that saw a HUMONGOUS massacre (around a 1000 people) during the revolution (which just ended in 92!). There´s a museum here that´s really quite well put together (by Latin American standards) and is actually quite educational and informative. It should be - we´re talking recent history! I was completely ignorant that Nicaragua even had a war around the time of my high-school graduation. But I wasn´t exactly into global politics back then the way I am now. Other than this museum, there´s not that much in town - so we´re leaving tomorrow after a morning walk to a hilltop lookout where we can see the view over the town. Then it´s the next bus to San Miguel where we can get to an ATM machine!
Will update later on from somewhere else - maybe it´ll even be in El Sal!
I´ll get to Perquin and El Sal in a moment, but I have to tell you about this MASSIVE F´N storm we went through near the Honduras/El Sal border last night. We were watching lightning hit 100 meters from the road and hearing the loudest sonic booms ever as we took the bus to the border town of El Amatillo. I thought we were going to need the Arc of the Covenants to get us through, there was so much water coming down. Lulu, being the paranoid she is, was sort of freaking out about the lightning until I reassured her (3 times) that we were OK in the bus. Once we arrived the bus driver looked at us and made the ´last stop folks´ sign and instead of heading across the 600 meter border area into Niaragua and getting completely drenched - we headed for the nearest hotel - just 250 feet away... and got just as completely drenched. Sometimes there IS such a thing as too much rain. I think my feet are still wet as I write this today, actually.
Anyway... Back to Perquin. Perquin is near a village that saw a HUMONGOUS massacre (around a 1000 people) during the revolution (which just ended in 92!). There´s a museum here that´s really quite well put together (by Latin American standards) and is actually quite educational and informative. It should be - we´re talking recent history! I was completely ignorant that Nicaragua even had a war around the time of my high-school graduation. But I wasn´t exactly into global politics back then the way I am now. Other than this museum, there´s not that much in town - so we´re leaving tomorrow after a morning walk to a hilltop lookout where we can see the view over the town. Then it´s the next bus to San Miguel where we can get to an ATM machine!
Will update later on from somewhere else - maybe it´ll even be in El Sal!
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