I’m not usually one for lying out on the beach and lazily ambling around all day, but I have to say when there are beautiful black sand beaches, no tourists, and a big, bright, warm sun I change my tune a bit. The La Libertad cost of El Salvador is amazing! Hope and I arrived here Wednesday afternoon. We are staying at a hostel about five minutes away from the beach, we really like it. We are trying to save money on this trip so we were very happy when we found out that our hostel has a kitchen we can use to cook food for ourselves. Thursday morning Hope and I went to the biggest city nearby (called Libertad) on a bus to get groceries. We decided that we really wanted to make hummus and falafel. We were really excited when the grocery store had olive oil, chick peas, and fresh parsley (trust me, the produce section was NOT big). We got all of our ingredients, but the olive oil was really expensive, (almost $3 for a tiny container) so we just bought one to add to the hummus and then we bought cheap vegetable oil to fry the falafel in. That was apparently a big mistake. The falafel all fell apart when we were frying it and it basically turned into warm hummus with parsley in it. So now for the next few days we have to eat hummus, falafel mix, and some veggies. Not that it’s bad, but it’s not that exciting either.
At the beach it has been really wavy these past few days, which is fun, but it does make swimming tiring. What I really love about this place is that it is the most touristy place in all of El Salvador, but honestly there are not very many tourists and it is not very touristy. The only downside to this wonderful spring break is that we have to work on 15 page papers because they are due the day after we get back. Oh well, I can’t complain, this is by far the best spring break I will ever have.
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