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Walking the Streets
Blog: Kiva Stories from the Field - 3 July 2011
Walking in San Salvador is the stuff nightmares are made of, but not for the reasons you might think. You have probably heard about the dangers of walking the streets in big cities in Latin America: you'll be pick-pocketed, purse-snatched, robbed at gunpoint, sequestered, murdered... Those are real threats, but I'd like to discuss a few others that don't get as much headline space.
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Another Lung Burnin' Capital
Blog: Joe's Trippin' - 24 July 2010
Heading down to the local travel agent and picking up a travel brochure for anywhere in Central America, you'd be hard pressed to see any mention of the capitals.
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El Salvador - like Marmite?
Blog: A Travel Diary from Mexico, Central and South America - 24 November 2009
When heading south from Mexico (by land) it's pretty easy to go through each Central American country - perhaps with the exception of Belize, which I really wouldn't miss, by the way - whether you stop at each one or not. So we thought it'd be a shame to skip El Salvador. I put it like that because since the start of our travels we hadn't received one glowing report about the country. We did not hear anyone say, "Oh you simply cannot miss blah, west of blah blah in El Salvador", or, "You'd be foolish to miss the fantastic views of Valley Blah".
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San Salvador Is Mental
Blog: Viva Latin America! - 19 November 2009
Another song has let me down. Do you remember that dance song, San Salvador, from 2003 or whenever? The chorus went something like this: san salvador, get the music swing and people singing san salvador, never just give up and just beginning san salvador, let me join’ and sing nobody sleeps san salvador, gimme happiness excite you I found the [...]
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