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And more on El Salvador before I leave this beautiful country tomorrow. I apologize now that I haven't really had a chance to keep up on everyone's journals, and to be honest I probably won't be able to catch up on the last week. There's just so much going on with all y'all.
Let's see, we climbed a mountain in La Palma. Our 1 hour nature walk ended up being a 4 hour stroll to a river/waterfall and then to a mango tree, where our guide knocked tiny green mangoes down and we peeled them with his garden shears at them with salt (which he had gotten by just stopping in one of the houses along our walk and asking the inhabitants. It was sort of beyond amazing. Of course, Nori and I both have fabo sunburns now because our sunblock died about halfway through this walk.
I have now run the full gamut of bus experiences in El Salvador. Everything from standing on a microbus as it races through the crowded town centre to the upper class "direct" buses which are similar to greyhound coaches in north america. I have decided the ones I like best are the ones that I can sit on, do not have a curtain trying to eat my brain, have a floor, and the music (and/or movie) are not too terrible.
We went to Tazumal yesterday. It's a pyramid. There are pictures. They will be posted when I'm back in Canada (Tuesday). That was an amazing experience. Even if it took forever busing to get there. You do get to see some remarkable and heartbreaking things here. For instance, when we were busing. On one side of the street was a huge huge mall, and the other side was a slum of tin and cardboard houses. Obviously one exists so the other can. You guess which.
There are things to love and hate about this country, like with most countries. I think I'll get more reflective when I return home and have had more time to sort of digest everything I've seen.
Let's see, we climbed a mountain in La Palma. Our 1 hour nature walk ended up being a 4 hour stroll to a river/waterfall and then to a mango tree, where our guide knocked tiny green mangoes down and we peeled them with his garden shears at them with salt (which he had gotten by just stopping in one of the houses along our walk and asking the inhabitants. It was sort of beyond amazing. Of course, Nori and I both have fabo sunburns now because our sunblock died about halfway through this walk.
I have now run the full gamut of bus experiences in El Salvador. Everything from standing on a microbus as it races through the crowded town centre to the upper class "direct" buses which are similar to greyhound coaches in north america. I have decided the ones I like best are the ones that I can sit on, do not have a curtain trying to eat my brain, have a floor, and the music (and/or movie) are not too terrible.
We went to Tazumal yesterday. It's a pyramid. There are pictures. They will be posted when I'm back in Canada (Tuesday). That was an amazing experience. Even if it took forever busing to get there. You do get to see some remarkable and heartbreaking things here. For instance, when we were busing. On one side of the street was a huge huge mall, and the other side was a slum of tin and cardboard houses. Obviously one exists so the other can. You guess which.
There are things to love and hate about this country, like with most countries. I think I'll get more reflective when I return home and have had more time to sort of digest everything I've seen.
