Well this is something a little bit special,
we've come down to Lake Coatepeque, but this is no ordinary Lake!! Oh No!
For the past, about four years, for only a couple of weeks a year, this lake turns a
very bright blue.
🎼
Well we have just had at the best time in San Salvador,
we had a fantastic interview yesterday with Gabby and this morning we've woken up,
and we're going to be packing our bags, our rucksacks up and heading off to
Hostel Dona Marta, which is our home in San Salvador, with the lovely family that
welcomed us, when we first arrived here on our original trip.
Bienvenidos A El Salvador - We are waiting for you in Hostel Dona Marta!
We're just walking around by the World Trade Centre here in San Salvador
We've had some lovely breakfast at Florence's and I just spotted a little
camper van, a little VW that's been turned into
a coffee and tea place, how lovely is that
that's absolutely beautiful.
🎼
So we've been staying at Hotel Mediterraneo Plaza that you can see behind us and we
stayed here whilst we were being interviewed for the TV yesterday,
great location, smack in the business district here in San Salvador and literally like
five, ten minutes walk to the World Trade Centre, which has got lots of places to
eat, and it's a very modern modern place to hang out, so it's been
very comfortable here, and yeah we're heading off to go and get packed to head
back to the Dona Marta hostel.
So we've arrived at Dona Marta hostel our little
home from home, the family here had been so lovely to us and shown us around
taken us out and shown us the true Salvadorian warmth of the people, and so
we're back for our last night in San Salvador with the family, just to catch
up we're just gonna hang out and share stories. I'm gonna really miss this
family, they've been lovely so I wanted to share our hostel here it's this
lovely little house at the back of a courtyard community and its really
lovely, they've got big big rooms, it's a little bit like a Tardis (looks small but is big inside), just lovely
it's actually hard to believe for your even in the city. The amount of birds
that we've seen here, including the national bird in the garden here has
just been phenomenal, huge amounts of birds. So you've got this lovely
reception area here and then just to the side there is the breakfast room which
is here, which is the lovely room and they're doing some building work at the
back because they're actually so popular now, that they're growing their business
and putting an extra six rooms on because the location for visiting the
city, just an Uber in, just a couple of dollars to Uber in, is perfect, there's
free drinking water here and then the kitchens just off there where they
prepare your breakfast. So it's a lovely situation and it's a lovely family and
there is nothing that you can't ask for, everyone is super helpful, so come and
have a look at our room. I love it it's huge, but often in city hostels you tend
to get very small amount of space, but our room is massive. So there's a
bathroom ensuite which is lovely with a huge shower, a massive shower, private
loo, private sink, and then, just through here is where we have been sleeping and
working, when we're in San Salvador. In fact let's see what Chris is doing.
What you doing love?
Making videos, answering all your questions,
I have a little desk area, air-con
right next to me which in this heat is always welcomed, the Internet here is
actually very good. We've stayed in some places where it's been a bit of a
struggle to get online and answer messages and upload videos and things.
But here it's working really fine, my work time you put upload as you're
going to sleep, when you wake up in the morning, it's all finished, which is even better!
It's our last day in San Salvador, and we've said goodbye to the beautiful
family at Dona Marta and Edwin our friend here in San Salvador has come to
pick us up and take us to a special place. It's a mystery tour from EC Tours, so he's
taking us out for our last day here and we're feeling really sad that we're
going to be leaving El Salvador, but really hopeful that one day we'll be
back, and visit this beautiful Nation. So let's go and see where this beautiful
mystery tour takes us.
🎼
Well! This is something a little bit special ,we've come down to Lake Coatepeque,
but this is no ordinary Lake! Oh No!
For the past about four years, for only a couple of weeks a year, this lake turns a
very bright blue and normally it happens at the end of August but for some reason
this year, it's happened earlier, just because we're here! and so we are so
lucky on our last day in El Salvador, to have a look at this Lake and if I turn
around and you look there, how blue does that look?
I've never seen a lake or water that blue!
Just when we thought El Salvador
couldn't surprise us or show us anything more beautiful,
Edwin has given us this!
Look at that!
What is that? It is the cherry on the cake !!
It is the cherry on top of the cake !!
Yeah I've got to admit it, he has pulled this one out of the bag!!
Good job EC Tours!
🎼
There is a model of a snake here in this little restaurant bar that we've just
stopped off to take some photographs of the view,
and I just asked Edwin, when why is there a snake?
And apparently what Coatepeque means is a place of snakes!
There are a couple of theories as to why the lake is this colour,
originally because it's a volcanic lake they were thinking
that maybe there some kind of bubbling explosion
going on the underneath and maybe the ash
is actually changing the colour of the water.
Then they were thinking
that because it happened in August,
maybe it's some kind of bloom or blossom of weed or algae that's causing this to happen?
Because for three years in a row it happened in August,
but this year, it's happened in June so nobody exactly knows why the lake turns this colour
for a couple of weeks a year,
but that is the mystery of Lake Coatepeque.
So we've driven down from the top of the hill,
down to the shore of the lake
and we're off for a nice spot of lunch,
and this place they taking us to looks absolutely amazing
right on the shore of this amazingly Blue Lake
🎼
So that was a delicious lunch, a bit of crab soup to start
with and then I had a lovely bit of fish
that was caught from this very lake and it was delicious.
And we're off now we're heading back to San Salvador.
🎼
Well we've been hanging out at Edwin's house for this evening, because our bus
back to San Jose is at the ungodly hour of half-past 2:00 this morning!!
And 10 o'clock, so yeah, we can't make him wait up till 2:00 that's just horrible, that is rude !!
Even though he offered !!
But we said we will go on down to the bus station now,
we'll hang out we'll just do some work, watch a bit of
Netflix, try not to sleep, and then we'll be ready
in the waiting room. So yeah absolutely, so this is
really the end of our trip of new places because we're
heading back to San Jose. Yeah, our last night in San Salvador!
There you go, we feel really emotional,
we've had so much fun and everybody has been
so friendly and helpful!
Yep, we are feeling a little be sad - there you go!
anyway, now we're off to the bus.
So we've arrived like four hours early for the bus here
at terminal San Carlos, but there isn't a waiting room!
So we're just trying to work out, the security guards
just trying to see if there's somewhere we can wait,
so definite tip of the day!
Don't turn up for hours before your bus thinking there's a waiting room you can hang out in!!
Marianne talking to the Security guard who was trying to help us!
Right now we'll take over now hey you leave a 2:45 in the morning
You are going to Costa Rica ?
Check in time is 02.15, it is now 2 O'Clock, We have been here since 10 PM
in this room, and we're in a little bit tired now, which is probably good because
when we finally do get on the bus, I think I'm going to sleep!
I know I'm going to sleep,
but the problem is that after three hours they wake you up to do
a border crossing!!
But we don't get there till 11PM tomorrow, We've got plenty of time to sleep.
🎼
So that was a hell of a trip yesterday!
Twenty-one hours on a bus! Yes! Thank you very much tikka bus,
We got the bus all the way from San Salvador
in El Salvador, all the way to San Jose here in Costa Rica.
And a big THANK YOU to Edwin, for taking us to the bus station
to save us carrying and Ubering, So Thank you for that! Absolutely!
Yeah, a hell of a trip, across all the way to El Salvador,
Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica,
and now it marks the end of this season of TREAD the Globe.
and our travels in Central America have come to an end.
Five months! Yeah we've had a fab time! Indeed!
but there is lots more exciting stuff ahead,
because by the time you're watching this video, because we're a
couple of weeks behind on the videos, we will be back in the UK and filming and
getting ready, for our drive around the world in Trudy, our camper van.
The next big adventure!!
And that is a hell of an adventure!! So stay tuned,
if you want to follow our adventures as we travel around the world in our camper van as we
get ready, then make sure you click 'Subscribe' below
it's been an absolute pleasure showing you all around Central America
Yeah it has been heartfelt feelings for Central America
we have had a beautiful time ... Yeah and if you've got
any questions on our travels, or want any advice, don't hesitate to message us or
leave a comment below. Absolutely.
We've just experienced our first earthquake the light is still moving
that was really scary, and you can hear the car alarms going off!!