Hi everyone!

We had one more village to visit in Honduras. Gracias,"a small, quaint mountain village with friendly people and cobblestone streets" or so sayeth the guide book. After having read the description I was bound and determined to go out of our way to stay in this town. What we found after hours and hours of travelling instead was an incredibly dusty, fairly unintersting town. We were however shown how to make papusas (one of the national dishes and incredibly delicious cheap streetfood available in El Salvador) by two women at one of the restaraunts there. I am pretty sure that Blake is in love!With the papuasa, not the women. Papusas are small, soft stuffed tortillas filled with pretty much anything, although beans and cheese has become our fast fallback.

After a slightly disappointing adventure in Honduras it was off to El Salvador which has been amazing! We have seen waterfalls, ate more street food than anywhere else, attended a food fair and made friends with some locals. All in all a pretty successful week!
First up in El Salvador was the "small quaint, mountain village" of Suchitoto. Of course we were apprehensive after our Gracias fiasco, so you can imagine our pleasant surprise when we found one of the most wonderful villages we have ever been to. Suchitoto was everything we had been hoping for in Gracias and more! Wonderful, helpful people, gorgeous town, cobblestone streets, an amazing waterfall with hexaganal rocks formed by volcanic activity and cool weather! It was amazing!

After 2 wonderful days and a couple of questionable nights, which included a million mosquitoes, one dead bat, and eventually two beds in Suchitot we headed out for, if you can believe it, another¨"small, mountain town with cobblestone streets", called Juayua. Again amazing! We arrived just in time for their weekly food festival!
Food everywhere, including papusas, friendly people and a great hostel! We were also able to take an amazing walk to see some of the water falls that provide water power for the town. The walk was through an amazing cloud forest with ancient architecture and came complete with a local machete wielding guide and 3 armed policemen. Apparantly they had some trouble with theft along the trail years ago and are taking it very seriously!
As sad as we are to say good bye to El Salvdor, tomorrow morning we head out to Guatemala to spend some time arround Lago Atitlan and try and slow down the pace a bit.We will definately let eveyone know how we are doing soon!