Category Archives: El Salvador

The 20km run to San Miguel & the turnoff onto High­way 7 was less than pleas­ant. The shoul­der was prac­ti­cally unus­able so I found myself at the side of a busy 2-lane high­way into El Salvador’s 2nd city. I nearly got side­swiped by impa­tient trucks twice, but at least it was mostly down­hill after all […]

I was sur­prised to find that there were over 400m of climb­ing between Suchi­toto & the Panam High­way at San Martín, 25km away. I was passed by sev­eral trucks crammed full of peo­ple on their way to mar­ket at this junc­tion town.This was the main form of trans­port in the area — no seats, squashed in […]

After about 10km of climb­ing on another good road with a very gen­er­ous shoul­der through a cou­ple of land­slides I began about 12km of what is the best type of cycling there is. All of the hard work of get­ting to the top of, often, very long climbs allows you to just drop, drop, drop. You […]

Route Map View Cycling El Sal­vador in a larger map Key By bike By plane By ferry By train By bus A slight down­hill brought me to the bor­der post, 8km away, at El Poy. For­mal­i­ties were quick & for­mal on the Hon­duran side. I also changed the remain­der of my Hon­duran Lem­pi­ras into US dollars. […]