Food Glorious Food

A brief return to Antigua for onward travel gives us a reunion with Kerry, Niels, Kon and his friend Aggie who has joined him. Our next move is to El Salvador via Guatemala City. Apart from being scammed by a money changer at the border for $30 all goes well!

Our first stop in El Salvador is Juayua (why ooh ah) a lovely town and we both get a good feeling for it. We're rooming with Dona Mercedes in a pretty swank house for $9 each a night. Unfortunately Adrian has a case of 'somewhere foreign belly' but Dona Mercedes takes him under her wing and he's soon on the way to recovery. 

Luckily for us, Juayua is hosting a Feria Gastronica this weekend and they are just putting the marquees up as we arrive. Its food all the way. You can sample grilled frog, roast iguana amongst many other things. The food is delicious, the whole town seems to be out enjoying the festivities.

We also visit the local waterfalls, a long walk down but an even longer one back up in about 85 degrees. Unfortunately, whilst the falls are beautiful, they are a local beauty spot and sadly in Central America you don't take the trash home and there are no trash cans, so its littered all over.

I feel quite sad when it is time to leave Juayua as it a place I could live, if I had to live in Central America. Mind you, its pretty pricey, they've got the dollar and that makes a huge difference. We're told that it was good for the country when it first happened but that now everything is too expensive and a lot of the country lives in poverty. There isn't too much sign of that here though.

From Juayua we head to Lago Coatepeque, it takes 3 chicken buses and looks divine from up the hill, sadly when we get there its another beauty spot that takes a hammering from the trash. Our hostel is mank and we drown our sorrows, in beer not the lake! The view from the bar was pretty good though! The consensus is that we'll move on tomorrow.