Tuesday, August 31st, 2010 /
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Title: BALLS OF FIRE FESTIVAL
Location: NEJAPA
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Description: BALLS OF FIRE – AUGUST 31ST
CALLING ALL COUCHSURFERS WHO WANT TO LIVE AN EXPERIENCE LIKE NO OTHER IN EL SALVADOR, WE ARE INVITING YOU TO THE BALLS OF FIRE IN NEJAPA
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MEETING POINT: http://www.couchsurfing.org/meetings.html?mid=87806
MEETING TIME: 5:30 PM
DEPARTURE TIME: 6:00 PM
RETURN TIME: 10:30 PM aprox.
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my phone number is 74697759
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Saturday, August 28th, 2010 /
QBT-Central
Part 2
We then continued to the Museum of Jayaque. It’s a small house but contains a lot of the story and the traditions of this town. In here, you will learn about Balsam extraction, about Los Cumpas and, of course, coffee plantations. Don’t forget to sign the guest book!!! more…
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Category: El Salvador
Tags: bakery, Colonial Curch, Colonial Town, farm, food, Jayaque, jellies, jelly, museum, night, Orchids, Recomended Leave a Comment
Friday, August 27th, 2010 /
QBT-Central
Part 1
As part of the program Turismo Nocturno or Tourism at Night sponsored by the Ministry of Tourismo of El Salvador, we visited Jayaque last Wednesday.
The meeting point was at the Ministry’s building (see the map for reference) at 5:00 pm, That’s when the adventure started.
We departed in 3 huge orange buses provided by the Dr. José Matías Delgado University, all guarded by the National Police, Tourism Department.
We arrived in Jayaque at about 5:50 and we were welcomed by the Major himself. There were many different options to eat dinner at the Park, located at the center of the town, all going from US$0.50 to US$2.50. There were also handcrafted souvenirs and my favorite: Fruit Jelly but not just any Fruit: Annona Jelly, and Jocote Jelly are some of the flavors that Delicias de Jayaque (Jayaque’s Delight) manufactures.
I can’t tell you how good these jellies are. The next they I had 2 toasts for breakfast, one with philadelphia cheese and Annona jelly and the otherone with jocote jelly…. OMG!!! sooo good…
Now back to the subject: Once we all had time to eat dinner, we spited in 4 groups and we visited 4 different historical places at Jayaque:
The first was the Bakarey: It’s been there for more than 20 years and it still uses wood, the bread and sweet bread are soooo good and you can get many things for just US$1.
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Sunday, November 23rd, 2008 /
Ethel
Planchimalco is a town located about 17 Kms form San Salvador. We arrived there without actually planning it, we were heading to Puerta del Diablo (Devil’s Gate) but we decided to go to Panchimalco instead.
About 5 minutes after we arrived, a parade started, we were surprised because we didn’t know but once we saw it, we stayed there. It was commemorating the Pupusa National Day and they were presented the Historiantes, a group of old men with costumes, representing parts of the history of the world. The most obvious one is the one when they represent the Christians and the Moorish. There are 2 groups of 7, the Christians are the ones with crowns and the Moors are the ones with animal masks.
After the parade we visited the Colonial church, the Casa de la Cultura and a Paining Studio.
The Colonial Church was originally constructed in 1725 and it’s the oldest colonial structure surviving in El Salvador. The Church consists of a single nave covered by a roof supported by 16 wooden beams. It contains an altar reredos done in the French Baroque style, but its most well-known feature is its bleached white colonial façade.
The second highlight of the trip is the visit to the Paining Studio; it is actually worth visiting Panchimalco just to see the Studio and the Church.
The Studio belongs to artist, a Salvadorian painter who lived in Australia and now established his painting academy in Panchimalco his name is Miguel Angel Ramirez. One of the students was kind enough to give us a tour trough all the paintings and the history of the studio.
It was noon already and we were planning to go to Olocuilta to see the World’s largest Pupusa, but we were hungry, so we stopped at Los Planes de Renderos, there is a Site Seeing place, very nice with handcraft sellers and stuff like that.
There is a big restaurant in front called Carimar but to be honest, I rather eat at one of the smaller places on the street. The restaurant was big so it took some time for the waitress to see us even when it was empty, the food was ordinary, a little expensive (relative to the prices on the street) and the restrooms were definitely not clean! =( and for the size of the restaurant one would expect that they take credit cards, sadly, they don’t. Tourist advice: do not eat at a place that is empty.
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