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Central American Tour

San Salvador, El Salvador

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Mar 7 2010, 06:00 AM

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San Salvador, El Salvador

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Having reached our northernmost destination, we left Flores in a rush to get back south. As it turns out, Tikal is a long way from San Jose, and we're still hoping to make it south to the canal before flying home. Fortunately there was a bus straight from Flores to San Salvador. We thought it was a tourist bus and we were pretty ready to indulge in comfortable seats and air-conditioning for twelve hours. And I guess it probably had been a tourist bus at some point, but by the time we got to it it wasn't much better than the school buses. It got us to our destination all the same.

San Salvador was pretty uneventful. The city itself, or what we saw of it, is kind of like Phoenix—America gas stations and box-stores. We bought dinner at a Texaco mini-mart. We had no intention of staying long so the next morning we hit the road to Suchitoto, a lakeside city known for its tranquility.

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