Day off in San Miguel - Bike Touring in El Salvador
A day off the bike whilst cycling through El Salvador as part of my bike tour from Alaska to Argentina. Here's what I got up to in San Miguel El Salvador.
San Miguel
Today was a day off to rest my legs, which hadn't really recovered from the long day out of Lago Coatepeque. I didn't intend to do a great deal... something that I succeeded in admirably! (Unless you count snoozing a lot).
That said, this entry needs some words, so I'll write a few things here which I take for granted as I cycle through the countries of central america , and which I may not have written before.
Observations cycling in Central America
- Water is often available in small 500 ml plastic pouches for 10 cents from street corner vendors selling them out of ice boxes or from shops.
- Most cash rich businesses have an armed guard with shotgun.
- A lot of people in the smaller villages in El Salvador carry a longer, thinner machete than they do in Mexico.
- Sundays is a day for families to go to church and take a stroll. Most businesses in El Salvador either open a half day or not at all on Sundays.
Anyhow, mission accomplished with the day off, and it gave me a chance to plan the road ahead to the Nicaraguan town of Leon, which is my next two night stop.
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Dave is a UK travel writer living in Athens since 2015. With 20 years of firsthand travel experience and over 80,000 km of bicycle touring across six continents, he's been blogging at Dave's Travel Pages since 2005. Every guide is based on places he's actually been.
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