31/1/10 - day 53. up at half 7, 8am bus back to santiago de maria, villa el triunfo then san salvador. when i got to villa el triunfo, fella came up to me from one of the buses asked me where i was going, i said san salvador and then he grabbed my bag, as if he was just being helpful and carrying it for me, and just as others were asking me the same thing he started sprinting to the bus before any other buses going there could snare me. again, it worked as it ...

30/1/10 - day 52. up at 7 and made tge most of the breakfast eating them put of house and home, as i was unable to yesterday. checked out and got a pick up back down to san francisco gotera. i think ive mentioned before how they sqeeze people into the public transport in central america, well this was no exception. i mean they really took the p*ss. i was crotch to face with an old man half the journey and chest to face with some girl the other half. both occasi...

29/1/10 - day 51. up at half 6 for breakfast as i had to be down the road for haf 7 to catch a bus to nearby El Mozote. El Mozote is a really tiny, and eerily quiet, village that the army wanted to make an example of during the war. in december 1981, virtually the whole village was massacred and in the early 1990's they started finding human remains in mass graves, and i think the count is over 800 people, about half of which were children. there was only 1 know...

28/1/10 - day 50. got up at 6am to find a cockroach lying upside down, legs slightly twitching on the floor by the head of my bed. dont know if it was the same one id seen in the shower before i went to bed cos this one looked bigger. one thing i do know is that it wasnt there when i got up for a pee at 5. anyway, after a stuffy, sticky nights sleep, i left to catch a bus to perquin. i was waiting where i thought i needed to be for the bus when i was approa...

27/1/10 - day 49. had planned another day night in hinduras but turns out you cant cross the border into el salvador where i wanted to, you can only go the other way - apparently due to some border dispute. so was up at half 5, 6am bus bsck to santa rosa, another one to a small town called nueva ocotepeque and a short shared taxi ride to the border at el poy. easiest border crossing yet. because i was the only one there! after immigration i got on another b...