// EL SALVADOR

// EL SALVADOR El Salvador was still recovering from a fairly dark history when I arrived, years of dictatorship, a blight of gangs - but it was recovering, and I enjoyed my time here quite a bit. I did not stay long, only a few days on the coast, overnight in the capital, and a few days in the small colonial town of Suchitoto. The people were wonderful, the food delicious, the hope on the horizon encouraging. I did manage to visit the "Pompeii" of the Americas, a small Maya settlement that had been buried under ash by a volcano eruption around 600 AD. The site was only discovered in 1976 and so far nearly seventy structures have been uncovered.