Gone Fishin’…

The past two weeks of El Salvador life deserves a lot of updating! I found myself hopping from the city, to the former guerrilla headquarters, mountain town of Perquin, back to the city, to the colonial town of Suchitoto and then up to the amazing, progressive FMLN supporting town of Cinquera.. The experiences I had there were many, very rich and mostly unexpected.. BUT they need more time than I have now.. Why? Because I am off to the Caribbean!!

One of the cooperatives in San Salvador that I visited with CIS

Surveying the rivers path which wipe out everyone in the community in the 80’s during a hurricane.

At the coffee Finca Texcafe which is a community project also teaching local women to make woven crafts in order to earn their own money and decrease financial dependence on their husbands.

Coffee beans to be harvested in November

The wall in Parque Cuscatlan, San Salvador, commemorating all those killed and ‘missing’ in the civil war.

Me and some of the CIS girls.. enjoying a chocolate covered frozen banana,, sounds better than it tastes.

Mercedes, Me, Smith

At lake Suchitlan, Suchitoto with my gang of lady friends who invited me for drinks.

Suchitoto, left-wing, progressive, and cracking down on abuse towards women!

Don Pablo, Cinquera

Many leftist wall murals around the village, also a fair bit of Anti-America sentiments too…

Chilling in Cinquera.. cause there just wasn’t much to do!

Found him in the reserve outside of CInquera.. there are tonnes of different butterflies here!

At the lookout

Tecomate (used by El Salvadoran farmers to carry home-made alcohol heh) given to me by Don Pablo.

One border down, one to go!!

One border down, one to go!!

I arrived in Nicaragua from San Salvador yesterday after 7 buses, 10 hours and 10$ in bus fees..not bad. Was a long haul, there were highs and lows;  lots of sweat, vomiting out of windows (not me thank you very much!), intimate seating arrangements, border hassles (crossed through Honduras and Nicaragua), near death experiences (for the man was almost hit by our bus) and 2 rounds of watermelon. Not to mention the 16 times I cursed the existence of my huge backpack and various things hanging off of it.

This time, my experience in Leon is going to be limited and I will return. I am headed to Managua (capital city) to catch an overnight bus to Bluefields on the Caribbean coast, after which I will catch a boat to the blessed Little Corn Island http://en.wikipedia.or/wiki/Little_Corn_Island to meet up with some travelling friends for some fiesta, fun and sun!

As far as I know, internet and power are limited there so expect an in-depth account of El Salvador when I return to civilization…

Hasta Luego Viches!!

~ by lippygypsy on July 12, 2010.