Suchitoto, El Salvador
13° 56' N 89° 1' W
Jul 20, 2006 01:47
Distance 45km

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The art of war

This morning, we dropped out of the mountains and pulled into the colonial town of Suchitoto, the first capital of El Salvador.  It's a cute, peaceful town overlooking a beautiful (artificial) lake.  The city is quite the cultural hub, and interesting art can be found around every corner.  The restaurant/hotel where we are staying has a particularly compelling collection of pieces constructed out of old artillary from the civil war (the highlight of which is scale weighing a bomb against a stack of tortillas).  After poking our noses into a few art galleries, we walked down to the "centro de touristica" on the shore of the lake.  It was a bit rainy, but we got talked into taking a quick boat ride around an island full of ducks.  It was actually quite nice to be out on the lake, which provided much better views of the surrounding mountains.  That night, we went PUPUSA CRAZY!!  (I don't even remember how many we downed, but we visited two different stands and capped our feast off with GRANDE pupusas).  We capped the evening by relaxig in the main square, which has some interesting sculptures of Don Quijote on display.  Suchitoto was a very pleasant and relaxing town, but (even though we didn't make it to the waterfall) I think one day was enough.

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Don Quijote marches forth from the cathedral another Don Quijote and Sancho Panza - the statues are on loan from the national museum strolling the cobblestone streets in search of a hotel pretty views of the lake from town the artwork on top of our hotel- weighing tortillas vs. a bomb more war art in our hotel old guns and munitions (I hope they aren't still live) Karin models the artillary on display outside our room helicopter bomb dropping art great views of the lake from town obligatory couple shot view of the valley (and more of the lake if you squint) flowers growing up through the cobblestones and mariposas on doors, how nice! my, Quijote, how you've grown! the artificial lake below Suchitoto here comes our boat floaty plants Karin is enjoying our "tour" land ho! jyaaaaaar!!! on the bow ducks in the tree on the island... they look a lot like the ones we saw kayaking on Ometepe snowy egret pretty light on the lake view from the boat rainy sunset back to land with us landlubbers! PUPUSAS!! Karin munching the tasty pupusas cute little district of town towards the lake Jews in El Salvador!! there is plenty of folliage on this street the newly redone central plaza at night
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