San Pedro de Alvarado, GT,- La Hachadura, SV
I gave up Antigua, the former capital of Guatemala, and Guatemala
while leaving by the border post San Pedro de Alvarado, GT and while
entering El Salvador by the post Hachadura, SV. The longest
procedure was that of Guatemala with a true play of track in four
offices with aller-et-retour. I was made assist by a Guatemalan who
led me office by office by ensuring my intermediary. I due to pay
again, Q 300, to close the permiso de importacion temporado. The
procedure lasted 1:45. Then in El Salvador the procedure was
shorter, 45 minutes for immigration and customs. I did not pay
anything. On the other hand my guide accepted Q 245, the balance of
my currencies in Quezal. The currency of El Salvador is the US $,
but with specific coins. While entering in Hachadura I discharged a
municipal tax US $5.
Parque National El Imposible
It is around 12:45 that I was definitively in El Salvador on CA 2.
My road plan laid down a bivouac at 34 km away from the border in
Parque National El Imposible. The ground track goes up to
approximately 770 meters of altitude to a rest area where I
bivouacked. The rain cunningly accommodated me as well as a small
interpretation center of the park.
Lago Coatepeque
On Tuesday, October 27th I went down from my mountain pasture at 770
m high to go to visit Ruinas de Tazumal west from Santa Anna. While
passing to Sonsonate I made food supply in Supermercado. Tazumal is
in the village of Chalchuapa. In the Ki'Ché language Tuzamal means:
The pyramid where the victims were buried. The site was inhabited as
of 5000 BC and a great part is under the village of Chalchuapa. The
museum exhibit artifacts excavated on the site. I continued my way
to Lago Coatepeque hoping to find a nice bivouac on banks. Well not,
all the bank, inclined, is privatized and no access possible is kept
by high walls! I cut off myself from a petrol station with the
agreement from staff.
Ruinas de Tazumal, click the picture
La Palma
On Wednesday morning pouring rain did not cease falling until 9:00,
opening hour of the Ruinas de San Andrés. I started with the visit
of the museum which presents excavated objects from the site. The
site is not very interesting due to the monuments were not
released. On the road to San Juan de Opico the site of Joya de Ceren
is regarded as Pompeii in Central America. Indeed this Maya site was
buried by the volcanic ash at the time of the eruption of the
volcano in AD 595. Its discovery updated Maya dwellings of higher
ethnological interest. I continued my way up to La Palma where the
painter Fernando Llort is established in 1972 and incited the
inhabitants of the village to cover the walls with naïve paintings.
Ruinas de San Andres & Joya de Ceren, click la photo
La Palma, Murals
El Poy, SV,- El Poy, HN
On Thursday October 29th I left El Salvador, look at
the border crossing.
