El Salvador 1 1/2 years later. A U.S. Gringos adventure in Central America"s best kept secret.
Hey hola everyone! First I wanted to show you my overall route and the stops I made and then we'll get into more places as we go okay I flew in from the United States to San Salvador and then the next stop was Antiguo. Cuscatlan, Playa San Blas, Ahuachapan, Santa Ana Metapan, back to San Salvador, San Miguel, La Union, Usulutan {and I know that's wrong} Beach Vibes and then Playa San Blas. Alright San Salvador I stayed there two months and it was a great place to start this adventure. I stayed in San Benito, there are car shows night live, cultural historical events, restaurants, shopping, I mean everything, it's a modern it's a modern city with all the great things that you can possibly want as a tourist or to go shopping or to take care of your immigration issues. That's where you go San Salvador.
say hey what's up guys this is Irvin from Salvador here shout out to JD off-course that is uh giving us this chance this opportunity to be on his video e we are down here in El Salvador we are in a big car show right now in El Centro historico so I recommend you guys to come down to El Salvador and come visit us it's a very safe place now so you already know we are here come visit us! Antiguo Cuscatlan. now located close to San Salvador sort of like a suburb to me, I stayed there for 2 months just about. it's still close close enough to the big city where you have all the big stores but you have that small town Vibe. I lived in one of the big Avitat complexes, which was like a eight-story apartment building and from there I could easily walk into town, enjoy the amenities, get pupusas tacos, go do a little shopping, just get my exercises and get those steps in. You know how it is when you get older you got to get the steps in. But anyway yeah that was a good place to good place to
stay. Playa San Blas. My next move was to the beach! Finally! It was a six-month lease in a condominium complex had me a little nervous there at the six-month thing but I'll give it a shot now there's many public pools in this complex a gymnasium, a clubhouse with restaurant, direct beach access, and being here for six months I really did make quite a few friends. I enjoyed the area it's right between LA libertad and El Tunco, now those are the two places down here along the coast that I found that seem to have the most activities going on festivals, night life, whatever you want and of course the restaurants this is a good good spot to [Music] be hi my name is Jerson Morales I am Salvadorian and welcome to playa san Blas I serf him for the last 22 years ready and I am happy to be living on the beach too Ahuachapan. One month, okay now I headed north for this one. going from a huge two-story house there at the playa to a one-bedroom one bath motel room was quite a challenge, but La Casa de Mamapan did not disappoint. owner and staff were great, treated me like family.
the town had a lively Square which was just right outside the front door A Hot Springs Park was nearby not too far away and I did make a video on that one as well and uh it was very relaxing and an enjoyable experience so that's a pretty cool one to check out the Ahuachapan nice little desk area to work at do some uploads on the videos I need to work on I'll get a minute nice bathroom I think it might have a hot shower. Oh my didn't expect anything to be going on I just a regular night but it is the first of the year so it looks like whether I wanted to go to a party or not I think I'm here. Santa Ana. Now Santa Ana is the second biggest town here in El Salvador and I thought well I'll stay there for two months yeah I'll I'll do that because it'll probably be pretty cool and I stayed on the uh second floor of this house had two bedrooms and two baths located in the historic district. Now that being said when you go to rent a house in the historic district you get narrow
roads the buildings that are just packed together multitudes of potholes in the in the roads and even in the sidewalks there were huge holes that were not marked or anything like that so you'd have to be real careful at night walking back to the house from the square which wasn't very far away. You sure didn't want to fall in one of those holes they might not find you for a day. yeah lots of truly memorable buildings though plus the other side of town had a huge mall and night life. I really think my sort of bad viewpoint on this town was the area I stayed in it just needs some tender loving care, some maintenance on the streets, and sidewalks, and step it up on the parks Santa Ana they were pretty sad. but anyway overall if you're in Santa Ana you can
shop you can uh dine and you'll see a movie I think as well so yeah there's lots to do [Music] Metapan Hey in Metapan I stayed one month at the Hostel Villa Blanca awesome service from the owner and staff, free breakfast for longterm stays too, now I stayed for like a month so that's a long-term stay, and I had a a great breakfast every day. I think I gained weight on this trip just because of the breakfast cuz I used usually don't eat breakfast but uh anyway it it was uh it was a one-bedroom with a bath I did a lot of walking in the town met a lot of great people in Metapan, uh this was close to Guatemala. I got to enjoy my first futbol and basketball game in El Salvador while I was in Metapan, at the square they've got a huge futbol field right beside it and right behind it is the basketball arena and I met some some guys from the United States were playing ball down here so that was that was pretty cool and uh enjoyed the games immensely [Music] Now my next stop was in San Salvador. I stayed in an older twostory home in a gated community
I had to take care of some immigration paperwork and that was the best place to be. The Beach Vibes Hostel. The next long-term stay was at the Beach Vibes Hostel in El Sunzal. I stayed maybe a month and a half. Sonia and Nelson really took good care of me, ran to some old friends while I was there which was very cool because you know I'd be on the other side of the country, pretty much all over the country and got some really good music videos and they're online too so check them out Playa San Blas II. The second time. Okay the wait was finally over, after a year or so traveling
around the country, I found a house in San Blas, well actually my buddy Edwin did a lot of the leg work he's really good about finding homes for people and he's located here in San Blas too. Now we looked at five or six houses I met uh some sort of shady homeowners I'll just say it honestly uh they did the little Gringo thing I think to me on a couple of them where they found out that I was uh not an El Salvadorian and the price went up. So tourism people you might sort of take note of that and uh I don't know I don't know what you can do there it's their houses they're going to do what they want to do but I did meet a man and his son who were more professional than the others so now I finally have a home base for quite a while I did a long lease I'm going to be traveling though and doing videos of El Salvador at other towns festivals and plus I might just have a new helper. So that'll put a pretty interesting spin on the videos, if I've got a another camera going while I'm doing my camera work too, we'll see. Now there were some other stops along the way and I didn't really cover them because they were like short one or two night stays and I'll cover those later like when I went out towards uh La Union and cover what I found out there and everything but uh a lot of those places that I've stayed at throughout this whole thing has been Airbnb so I'm going to do a video on airbnbs and hotels and it'll sort of give you a perspective of what the Airbnb situation is their fees and different things like that and I think they're having some issues right now actually with um their charges from airbnbs might be losing their popularity just a little bit so we'll see but that'll be in a video later on hey thank you for the comments the uh subscriptions the likes sharing uh we're up to almost 750 viewers right now or subscribers which is amazing and just thanks so much for that uh hopefully you're enjoying this this trip this adventure as much as I am like I said I'm locked in here for two years and uh hopefully I will get uh a lot of video from around the area and further out and bring it to you. So until next time and hopefully a shorter video it's Hasta Luego and I'll see you later! Bye....
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