After the luxury of shopping malls and far too much junk food we felt the need to get active again, so headed to the coast for some world class waves. We stayed in a little place called Playa Trunco mostly populated by tourists and "surfer duuuuudes", and were excited to get a board and take it out for the next day. Unfortunatly the beach itself was pretty rubbish for anything other than throwing rocks (not that we did, its just there were lots of them)...

Well after Alice's rather depressing blog about the history of El Salvador I'll keep it light! From Perquin we headed to the high altitude (well for El Salvador) village of Alegria. The trip required taking a mixture of pickup trucks, buses and minivans but was surprisingly easy. All through our trip we've been rating countries against one another and up till now Uruguay has been "friendliest people" but after the sheer helpfulness of the bus drivers an...

We were sitting by the pool in Leon and suddenly we decided to go to El Salvador. Ok then, so five bus journeys through three countries in one day may not sound like the best of ideas, but off we went nonetheless. Needless to say no fun was to be had, but it was worth it to arrive in such a lovely and un-touristy (sorry, I hate that phrase but can think of no other) country. Our first stop was a small mountain village which was a guerilla stronghold during the 12...