2-3 Weeks in November-where in the world to go?

Post by **whitey** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 4:49 pm

Hawaii Early Feb???

Worth a look??

Cheap accom (don't mind slumming it)???

Any input

Post by **loco4olas** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 6:16 pm

Lucky Al wrote:El Salvador, the Land of Rights!

Yeah-trouble is United doesn't fly to Costa Rica or Guatemala anymore-so too hard to get to El Slavador. My wife surfed La Libertad in 96' with another girl-some amazing stories-machine guns on the point kind of thing and bandits all about-sounded quite sketchy-she also caught a bad staph infection from the dirty water at the point.

Despite the sketchiness-I'd still like to go-just too expensive if United doesn't fly there-so it's out.

Still trying to decide.....

Matt

Post by **Lucky Al** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 8:13 pm

With all the Salvadorans in the States, how could United afford not to fly to El Salvador! In fact just last Christmas or the Christmas before my girl and I flew United LAX-San Salvador. At that time of year all the Salvadorans fly home, so our flight was overbooked and we got put up in a hotel for a night to fly the next day, and we received a $500 travel voucher each to make up for the inconvenience. Yes, it's all coming back to me now!

Post by **tortoise** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 8:14 pm

india???? plenty of culture there

Post by **Lucky Al** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 8:15 pm

Sorry, bit of needless information there. Sorry, bit more here: buses in El Salvador rock!

Post by **Lucky Al** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 8:18 pm

Buses in El Salvador rock, and they roll!

Post by **Lucky Al** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 8:54 pm

But to tell the truth La Libertad scares me. One day a shell of a man came storming across the road near the market and right up to me, started shaking me by the shoulders and shouting and spitting in my face - no idea why or what for. He was so thin and light, as if there was nothing left inside, that when I pushed him away he fell sprawling into the gutter. And then there were the men who slept and crept under the trees on the boardwalk up from the wharf - somehow much scarier than the crazy who confronted me near the market, so slow and settled and spidery in intent.

Post by **Lucky Al** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 8:55 pm

Thankfully the roca at the punta always lifted my spirits.

Post by **Lucky Al** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 9:12 pm

And the buses.

Post by **perezoso** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 11:47 pm

Spent a few weeks in La Libertad in 97. Great wave, but after a year and half in South and Central America, I can say it is the most dodgy place i have been. 50 percent of the travellers i met there were robbed at gunpoint, as was I. Not worth it imo

Post by **loco4olas** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 7:01 am

perezoso wrote:Spent a few weeks in La Libertad in 97. Great wave, but after a year and half in South and Central America, I can say it is the most dodgy place i have been. 50 percent of the travellers i met there were robbed at gunpoint, as was I. Not worth it imo

Pretty much dovetails with my wife's experience and view of the place-there's much better and safer waves/places....

Matt

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