After a long day of shopping and touring Hannah and I decided to chill out at the hostel before I needed to head out. To be honest I was nervous and regretting my decision to not take the route of just hostels instead I booked a “tour”. Since I only had a limited number of days I found a company that would book your transport and hotels for you while still having complete freedom. So I’m not exactly sure tour is the correct term. Basically I wouldn’t have to figure out the details but wouldn’t be stuck on a fully guided tour. We would still be taking local transport and doing all the typical backpacking stuff. I was excited yet nervous to meet the group.
*I can fast forward and say I’m loving the people. I’m currently thinking back and writing this blog entry from El Salvador while laying in hammocks with my new friends Casie and Mai!
I grabbed my backpack and peacock Domingo and headed to the hotel where the group was meeting. It was getting dark and I wanted to get there before the sun went down. Once at El Carmen Hotel I noticed there was no group. The hotel staff said there was another group but they were not back and he believed they were traveling north and not to Honduras. I checked my documents and realized the hotel was actually at the opposite end of the city at El Carmen Suites! Whoops! I grabbed my stuff and took off.
When I got to the new hotel the group was there and cheered as I walked in 40 minutes late. The group is made up of 11 really well travelled people. Mostly everyone has been to 30+ countries and even a guy who has been to over 100! We kind of joked that you would have to be well travelled to want to come to these countries. With everything lately on the news dealing with caravans, gangs, civil unrest, and murders it makes is a little less travelled. But I’ll get into that more later.
That night we enjoyed a birthday celebration for Isabel, my new roommate, at a super cool restaurant. Walking in it looked like a library. Our leads Fernando and even gotten it decorated for her.
A group of us stayed out late while other watched from the rooftop lava flow and explode out of a nearby volcano! Early in the day I had seen the smoke coming out and asked a local if it was from volcanic activity. The local responded so casually that it was. For me it seemed like the coolest thing in the world but to them it is just everyday normal life!
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