4/2/10 - day 57. up at 7 to get the 8am bus to parque nacional los volcanos where there are 3 volcanoes, 2 of which you can climb. we were going to climb volcan santa ana which is the taller of the 2 at 2300 metres. me and 3 other swiss people from the hostel all went together and for the hike you had to have a mandatory guide and 2 policemen as assault apparently used to be a problem so you can no longer go alone. the hike started at 11am and took just over 3 ...

3/2/10 - day 56. woke up feeling awful. sick, dehydrated, hot and sweaty pretty much sums it up. got up about 10ish and me nick went into the centre to get breakfast. had a toilet attack on the way there, and it was a photo finish. had a big warm, saucey, beef salad sandwich for breakfast from a street vendor which made me feel better oddly enough. i was stopped in the central park by an ice cream vendor who really wanted to show me his collection f foreign coi...

2/2/10 - day 55. day 55! jesus! i cant believe ive done 55 of these things! got up at 7 after not having slept more than 2-3 hours at a time thanks to having to have the fan on, which was a loud as a jet engine, so that it could keep the mosquitoes away from me which i could hear swqeaking in my ear everytime i turned it off. why were there mosquitoes in the room? because there was huge gap in the window slats. this probably had something to do with the big ant...

1/2/10 - day 54. up at half 9, in no hurry to leave, went for food in a cafe in the main square which was dead compared to yesterday. left the hostel about 11am and got the bus to san salvador. when i got there i was gonna taxi it to the other bus terminal in the city that i needed to be at but they wanted 4 bucks for it when the city buses only cpst 20 cents. since it was daylight (12.30 in the afternoon) although i had all my stuff with me i thought it would ...