This morning I decided to have a pramble around the centre of San Salvador. It was a market day so the streets were packed with market sellers, as well as open sewers and homeless people... Yeah San Salvador is horrible. Like, really, really bad. But at least I finished on a couple intriguing things. First up was a military parade, or rather, a load of soldiers sat round a carpet whilst a couple other soldiers walked some men in suits with a wreath around thei...

Today has been one of the most draining, most nerve-racking but also most rewarding days I've ever had travelling. I was up bright and early at 6am to an already bustling San Salvador, streets brimming with gas belching traffic and sidewalks packed with streetvendors, school kids and suit-lined businessmen. I headed to the domestic bus terminal for all destinations west of San Salvador - one of the most confusing I've ever been in. It was a dirty melee of repain...

I'm in El Salvador! This is Central America's smallest and most densely populated nation, and also one of the world's most violent. El Salvador is world famous for the wrong reasons. A US backed borderline dictatorship recruited paramilitary death squads to massacre the masses back in the 80s to try and stop a socialist sympathising guerilla group from seizing power. America lost and the FMLN control El Salvador to this day, overseeing mass industrialisation an...