by Chris | Aug 24, 2019 | El Salvador, Living Abroad, New Perspectives, Travel Life
I’m originally from the United States. Since I moved to El Salvador in 2018, I have observed a lot of key differences to that of the USA. I’ll get to specifics in a moment, but generally speaking, living in El Salvador is that of typical caribbean/latin...
by Chris | Aug 16, 2019 | El Salvador, El Zonte, El Salvador, Living Abroad
We visited Playa El Zonte on a slightly stormy day. As you can see the sky is a little bit grey and the water is a little bit choppy. We arrived at about 1:00 in the afternoon, after driving for about an hour from the Capital city of San Salvador. El Zonte is about a...
by Chris | Aug 13, 2019 | El Salvador, Tazumal Ruins, El Salvador
Tazumal Ruins – El Savador Today I visited the Tazumal Ruins of El Savaldor. They’re located near the city of Santa Ana, which is a beautiful and popular city to the west of San Salvador. I drove with my girlfriend Stephanie and some of her family members...
by Chris | Aug 9, 2019 | Christian's Travels, El Salvador
The ruins of Joya De Ceren was a pre-hispanic farming community from about 200 AD. The ruins are located about 30 minutes from the city of San Salvador, on the opposite side of the Volcano of San Salvador. Since the time that the ruins were discovered in 1976, about...
by Chris | Aug 9, 2019 | El Salvador, Volcan De San Salvador, El Salvador
Today I went on a day trip of hiking Volcan de San Salvador. It was a pleasant hike and took the majority of the day. It was a sunny day, but the Volcanos peak is in the clouds, so it seemed like a cloudy day. I went with a few other people, family members of my...
by Chris | Jul 7, 2019 | Christian's Travels, El Salvador, Lago De Coatepeque, El Salvador
The Lago De Coatepeque is a large caldera (underwater volcano), similar to the Lago de Ilopango. El Salvador is known as “land of volcanoes” and you can see why. There are 23 active volcanoes in the country. Lago De Coatepeque has active hot-springs on the...
