Punta Roca, La Libertad, El Salvador Having stayed the night at Pierre and Gaby's, friends of Brigitte, she and I headed for La Libertad. We found a great room on the beach over looking the ocean waves and chilled. We went in the sea, braving the rocks and waves, i chatted with this local who was teaching his son to surf and he let me have a go on his tooth pik of a board. Needless to say i couldn't stand up but he did say he would give some lessons on a bigger board. That night i ate some delicious fish in garlic and oil and the next afternoon after visiting the local market we parted our separate ways. Brigitte wet back to San Salvador for a flight to France and i went to famous El Tunco to surf! (pics below)
El Tunco, El Salvador
Now this is El Salvador, this is not Coasta del Sol in Spain. It is quite rough around the edges here. I mean you can see the beach is full of wood and stuff with a river going into the sea. Plus we have lots of black sand here with some rocks. In fact the bottom is a mixture of sand and rocks as i found out the hard way when i smashed up both my ankles on the rocks and then my hands when i tried to uncooly walk out the water.
I found the locals to be friendly once again which is really important when aclimatising to a new place. If the locals are friendly its half the battle. PLus i was able to practice my very limited Spanish again. To be honest as you will see from the pics there is not a lot at El Tunco except this surf and a very low key tempo. Really nice really when you think about it.
After being scammed for $8 dollars by a local playing taxi man i finally found a decent hostel that had access to the swimming pool opposite in a swanky hotel (they had same owner Oscar). Cool huh! You can see my hostel breakfast/terrace area, it had a kitchen etc.
Anyway i was supposed to go back to La LIbertad for some surf lessons with the two guys we met in the begining. Well i did go back, twice, but when i got there the sea was flat so i just decided to rent a board and go out on my own in El Tunco. I think after about 2hrs i was totally dead and i caught 2 or 3 waves. Crap i know. Hey its just the begining, bit like my Spanish. Give me a year and I´ll become a demond surfer and be able to speak Spanish. ...i hope. Doouuh!
5 comments:
Lovely beaches - are you sure you're not near Blackpool?
Great posts.. You're starting to sound like me. You also sound really chilled out.
I can really picture where you are. Tell me more about Belize and El Salvador. I may be heading back up through Central on my next trip. Are either of them worth the effort or not?
Happy travels.
Loopy
the beaches east are much better with white sand for parts of it and noone around on miles, very calm and great, although not for surfing of course
i personely loved salvador and because no tourist almost are there, it s still very real
beautifull landscapes, full of tropical trees and flours, lovely local people
the good thing about la libertad is that it s only an hour away from the capital and buses running every ten minutes
sad thing about salvador, guns all over, in front of everyshop a man holding an carabine figures on it, and don t be out at night if you don t know were you re going
but besides that i really loved it
very different landskapes from a place to another and volcanos everywhere, beautifull
bridge
and great fresh fruitjuices!!! amazing!! luke i hope you stoped with your fack vitamine C to take the good one, it definitly the places for that
bridge
ps for the guns ment fingures on it and not figures
take care
Hola Lucas!
Thanks for the posts and the pics... its so nice to follow what your up to... nice to see you so well!
Oh, and keep practicing, some famous Dr. we both know said it was one way to enlightment... and at best it gets you to perfect! Besides, I am looking for a surf instructor ;).
Rainy kisses from Brussels,
Sarah
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