Sleepy San Salvador

Sleepy San Salvador Hola todos. Still behind on blogging so let’s catch up!

Wednesday we left Santa Ana and that was quite the faf. Having done the chicken bus run figured would be simple. I even saw signs in the station the previous day for Ruta 201 to San Salvador. Anyways we pack up and get an Uber over to the grotty station as don’t want to spend 30 mins hauling the bags through a crowded pikey market.

I Get to the bus station and lo and behold no route 201. I look round and triple check then go ask one of the drivers. “No. No arriba arriba” “que” “calle 25!” Okay “donde está¿?” “ARRIBA!!” “Donde?” “Por acá” “vale” ay joder que puta drama!

In simplified queens English we had to walk 40 mins up a hill onto this drag where this bus does the rounds. I get there and it’s getting hot and no idea where I got to go. It’s quite a traffic jam going one way and I get lucky. Pulling into the jam happens to be the bus I need to get on so shout out the window at him. Confirm your going to where I need to be. Si. Genial! He lets me on and it’s $1.50 for 2 hours to San Salvador. I tell him Quédate el cambio for helping me out there. It’s a pretty chill ride down to San Sal and drive got the reggaeton on full blast. Actually felt pretty fun. We trundle on into San Salvador.

After navigating another chaotic bus station I get an Uber to my place for 1 night – nice little place in the suburbs to chill for a bit – been a bit sleep deprived the last few days. I get to the new place and the owner, Edgar is very chill and helpful. He recommended I go check out El escalón – I at first thought it was an escalator 😂

So after settling in I do just that. The area is boring until you come to a sky scraper and complex. Bizarrely El Salvador’s version of Canary wharf is sat up on this hill. Good for us though. I have a wander in and its lunchtime and loads of decent places to go and reasonably priced too! Not bad. Still bit Bizarro to have such a place in a residential district where otherwise not much is going on. I had a nose and turns out the British embassy for El Salvador is also based here!

Rest of the day and evening is pretty uneventful. Thursday we head for San Miguel……….