This is where we are moored at present Bahia Jiquilisco Lat 13 07 000N, Long 088 25 200W , we are in the top left corner, behind the boat with the sail up ( they were trying to get the bats off their sail!)
Its hard to think that the people we have met here, were until relatively recently killing each other in a civil war.
We set off a few days ago to rent a car and see some more of El Salvador, some of Guatemala, and Honduras. To cut a very long story short, it is either very pricy or impossble to take a car from one country to another, so we thought less is more, let's just explore El Salvador. We could have taken numerous buses, but we've had our fill of wrestling a backpack on hot sweaty buses, then being besieged by touts when you get off , hey that's why we bought a boat!
Anyway we love the country and the people, they are eager to help lost gringos, and a few words in Spanish brings out the smiles, and more helpers. We did OK on the whole. San Salvador was crazy, fast and polluted, the countryside was poor, but beautiful.
We needed to catch a bus back to the small town near our boat, and we couldn't find the departing bus terminal, we sped around the City asking everyone, but could make no sense of where it was, eventually we asked some very stern looking Police who instantly broke into smiles, and had us follow them in our car..............when we got to the station they drove in with the lights on, and had guns at the ready whilst we asked the bus times. We thought maybe they needed the guns to protect themselves...........who knows, because we rolled up the next day and it was just fine.
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