Monday (25 March), we are still in Suchitoto, El Salvador, we were awake reasonably early so we headed out for a walk around the town and stopped for breakfast.
Later we walked to ‘Cascada Los Tercios’, a waterfall, but with no water. The waterfall is an interesting rock formation made from the same sort of rock as the Giants causeway in Northern Ireland.
There was also wonderful views over lake Suchitoto. By the time we were walking back to town it was getting very hot, so we flagged down a taxi for the rest of the journey in to town. The taxis are tiny little cars!
Tuesday, we drove down to Le Cuco, a beach resort on the pacific coast of El Salvador. We arrived in time for dinner and an amazing sunset and moonrise.
Wednesday, started the day with sunset, we spent the whole day at the beach resort, some of our fellow travellers walked/ran/taxied to the local town, but we did absolutely nothing, except eat, drink and sit in a hammock, It was great to have a rest day! All this traveling is hard work! (Don’t worry we are not expecting any sympathy 😂)
Thursday, another early start, 4am bus first to the El Salvador/Honduras border, which was not too bad. Then a drive across Honduras to the Honduras/Nicaragua border. Leaving Honduras was not too bad, then we had to walk with all our luggage the 1km to the El Salvador border. This one took a lot more time for our guide to deal with all the required paperwork, but eventually we got through and on our way to León, a Spain colonial town.
Friday, again we were awake early so headed out for a walk around the town of Leon, stopping for breakfast at the “Pan & Paz” bakery. After a little more wandering we found ourselves at the San Juan Church, which had a small procession in the grounds of the church, carrying an effigy of Jesus. In Nicaragua the traditional Easter processions around the towns have been banned by the current government. (We are not going to make any political comment here). But it was nice to see the tradition being continued in the grounds of the church.
We headed to the Mirador rooftop bar to watch the sunset and have a beer or two, Nic found a new drink called Hard Seltzer, which appeared to be water with booze in it.
Saturday, we moved to Granada, stopping off to see traditional El Salvadorian pottery, we watched the process of making a pot, then looked around their showroom, some beautiful pieces.
We then called at a viewpoint over a dormant volcano crater lake, with our next stop Granada in the distance.
Checked in to our Granada hotel, another lovely hotel with a pool, the accommodation on this ‘basic’ Intrepid trip has been much better than we expected.
We headed out for a orientation walk and a group dinner, we got adopted by a local dog, it followed us around the walk and even came into the restaurant and sat under the table at Rog’s feet, then followed us as we walked back to the hotel, finally someone else showed it some attention and we were dumped, it trotted off with them. It has to be said it looked like a healthy dog and was wearing a collar, so it obviously just likes to adopt tourists for a little walk round town.
Sunday, Lots of optional tours are available today, but we decided to stay in the town, and do our own walking tour, via lots of the churches, the port, the market, the main square.
Most of the group went of a combined tour including a boat ride on the lake, which appeared to turn in to a rum cocktail fuelled “party boat”, so glad we didn’t cramp their style.
A group dinner was planned, however we decided not to join them, as the party was continuing, we must be getting old and boring. However we had a very nice meal in a fish restaurant, one of the best ceviche we have had.
Travurple 
Some of those churches are stunning. We can never work out
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