Eleven days in El Salvador
After Guatemala, we took a shuttle across the border into El Salvador. It was the easiest crossing yet - we didn’t even need to get out of the minivan! We spent 11 days in El Salvador in total, we hadn’t planned to pass through so quickly, but it felt like we had enough time there to explore. Santa Ana: Our first stop in El Salvador was Santa Ana - a quaint city in the north of the country. We stayed in a lovely hostel in a huge colonial building, and because there are too many tourists in El Salvador we had the hostel to ourselves for the four days we were there! Like all cities in Latin America, Santa Ana has a busy Central Park surrounded by old buildings (a theatre and a municipal building) and full of vendors of food and drink. We spent a day wandering around the streets of Santa Ana, which has a lot of beautiful old buildings. The famous dish of El Salvador is pupusas - a maize flatbread with a filling, usually beans and cheese (but there are lots of different fillings...