Santa Ana:
After the superb 5 days spent in El Tunco Beach, we head off north to Santa Ana. Santa Ana is the second largest city in El Salvador with around 275,000 inhabitants and that´s all! A couple of colonial buildings, a gothic church and that is it! But from here, it is easy to go to visit the surroundings volcanos and lake.
As that was the week-end of the last round of the 6 Nations Rugby, the boys came with us in the aim to find a bar showing the rugby. We had the satellite in the rooms but unfortunately, no channel was showing the rugby and no bar either. So they just followed the comments on BBC web site and were very happy to see Ireland winning the competition. We celebrated this victory with them. The next day, we said goodbye to the lads because they were returning to El Tunco beach. We spent a very good time in their company and we will miss playing "belote" with them. But we have already plan to meet in Dublin for more "belote" and beers... Hope all the best for them...we know now that they spent 3 more weeks to El Tunco where the surf was absolutly great! They have now split and Dave has joined Mexico for more surf and Neil has joined Honduras where he will meet his girlfriend.
- The Palacio Municipal,
- The Theater was built during the golden era of coffee in El Salvador during which Santa Ana was the most prosperous city in the country (latter part of the 19th Century),
- The Cathedral built also during the golden era of coffee. The interior was built between 1906 and 1913,
- This small plaza in front of this church (whose name I have forgotten!) was the nicest in Santa Ana,
- This church was in restoration probably to be completed before the beginning of the Semana Santa. Lots of work to do!
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