Articles tagged with "El Salvador"
El Salvador suits an unhurried trip better than almost anywhere in the region, because everything is close. This guide is about pace, footing and the arrangements worth making in advance.
El Salvador has limited accessible infrastructure and some genuinely difficult surfaces. This guide says where the real obstacles are so that a trip can be planned around them rather than into them.
A very large number of Salvadoran families have someone abroad, most of them in the United States. This guide is for travelers making that journey in the other direction, and for the people traveling with them.
El Salvador celebrates by town rather than by nation, so the question is rarely when the festivals are and almost always when this particular town's festival is.
Salvadorans are, by reputation and in practice, generous hosts. The etiquette that matters here is mostly about attention: to greetings, to church interiors, and to a recent history that is nobody visitor's to narrate.
Salvadoran food is built around the pupusa, and understanding the pupuseria is most of what a visitor needs to eat well here.
El Salvador has changed a great deal and the official advice reflects both the change and what came with it. This guide states what the cited source records, including the state of exception, rather than the version of the country you may have read about.
Nothing in El Salvador is far from anything else, which makes getting around mostly a question of what you travel in rather than how long it takes.
A week in El Salvador can take in a hot coast, a cool coffee highland and a volcano summit. The packing problem is the range rather than the weather.
El Salvador uses the US dollar, which removes the exchange problem and replaces it with a smaller set of practical ones about denominations, cards and cash machines.