While Away...

Easy instructions to reach Santa Ana. Unfortunately we didn't find R-276 so had to take 3+ more buses!   So our original plan was to visit the Ruta de las Flores (Route of Flowers) after finishing our workaway. As Suchitoto was on the way (sort of), the journey to Santa Ana and the Ruta de las Flores should have been simple. Needless to say, the first bus was 45 minutes late and the supposedly final bus probably wasn’t running. This resulted in taking three more buses, making it a 5 bus day. One of the reasons for stopping in Santa Ana on our way to the Ruta was to stay in the hostel voted best in El Salvador for the last 5 years. This hostel has everything required by a traveller: single beds with personal fan, box to put smelly shoes and socks in, power shower, fully equipped kitchen, swimming pool and more. The next day we visited the Santa Ana Volcano with some other people from the hostel. After purchasing some pupusas for breakfast and bananas for lunch, we hop...

It seems every time I sit down to write our blog I am apologising for the length of time between writing. Well, it has been another long break before getting you folks up to date with our adventures. Last time we left you we had just finished our time in Copan Ruinas in Honduras. Our next destination was the country of El Salvador where we had a WorkAway arranged with a tourist cooperative called Nubes del (Clouds of) Pital. For the uninitiated, Workaway is a website which connects volunteers with hosts who offer accommodation and food for help on projects such as organic farms, hostels and many more. Back to the story. We left Copan at what we thought was the reasonable time of 9am in the morning, which later you will see came back to bite us. We had many bus changes from there. The journey was longer and more tedious than expected even with the beautiful countryside. Suffice to say after 4 long bus journeys we got to the border a lot later than expected and thou...