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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here. Wow, a lot of diverse opinions! Our family has been to Costa Rica and Nicaragua and we liked both places. This time, I am taking my 70-year old mom along so I am a little more risk-averse. We are hoping for pretty beaches and also hiking. Not planning on going to restaurants or stores except for groceries. In any case, thanks to the PPs and welcome any other advice or suggestions![/quote]

OP - if you want to go you should go!!  I've been twice and I'm so glad I did (granted it was 15 years ago).  The first was with my in-laws (pre-kids).  [b]I had an advantage because they are both former Peace Core, had lived there and knew where to take us, knew people so they were our guides and had a great inside view of the country.
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The second time I went back with my mom, who at the time, was a Spanish teacher and we went on her Spring Break.  We had my in-laws good friends take us around.  We stayed in the nicest hotel in San Salvadore which was (in 2006) was $120.00 American dollars.  Everyone is so friendly

The things I recommend 1.   Learn about the assassination of Archbishop Oscar Romero and the Jesuit Priests.   Fascinating history and museum display

2.  Suchitoto - interesting Colonial town.  We said at a nice inn right on Lake Suchitoto

3.  Go to the pupupa restaurant on top of a volcano overlooking San Salvadore (can't remember the name).  To this day, my husband and I say they were the best
pupusas we've ever had and what a view.

4.  Take a hike and see the coffee bean fields

5.  Surfing (if you're into this)

Note:  we did a lot of things off the beaten track like see the medical clinic in a tiny village where my MIL worked at or the school my FIL helped get up and running or driving around the city
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Sorry.  Having a Peace Corps volunteer show you around is apparently disqualifying.   :)  [/quote]

PP here - ha!  Ok, kinda true[/quote]

I'm kidding.  I'm referring to a response to one of my prior posts, where some obnoxious troll gave me grief for saying I got to know Honduras by visiting a relative in the Peace Corps there.[/quote]

PP here. No one trolled you. Rather, I offered a counterpoint to your bizarre and obsessive need to depict El Salvador as difficult, unclean, and having unattractive beaches. [b]It is none of those things. I really wish you would stop maligning the country, which happens to be the homeland for some of the kindest and hardest working people in the DC area.[/b] You said you were leaving the thread, but then you couldn’t help yourself and you came back for more. It’s very strange.

Anyway, as I said above, El Salvador is a wonderful and authentic destination, and very easily could meet OP’s stated desires for a family trip. In addition to broad, sandy beaches (of course be careful of rip tides, as anywhere in the Pacific), there are mountain hikes, waterfalls, colonial towns, and volcanic lakes to explore. There is also interesting history, including the Oscar Romero museum that another poster mentioned, as well as another dedicated to the country’s civil war and related violence that I found instructive. Please accept that not everyone needs or desires the calm Caribbean waters of Roatan, or needs the handholding of a Peace Corps volunteer to enjoy the authenticity of Central America. We understand that you do, and that’s fine, but please stop forcing your brand of travel on others and disparaging a hospitable country and people in the process. [/quote]

Oh, stop trolling please.  I'm not "maligning the country" and I didn't say a damned thing to malign the people.  In fact, I said I loved our visit and we had a great time.  You really have no idea who you are talking to AT ALL.  You can try all you want to paint me as someone who doesn't know what they're talking about or to make it out as if you know so much more than me and have more "authentic" experience and knowledge of Central American than I do -- but you don't, trust me.

The only point that I've been trying to make is that if someone is looking for a beach vacation in Central America for spring break, which is how I interpreted OP's question, there are better options than El Salvador.  OP has clarified that, yes, she wants to bring her 70-year-old mother for a beach and hiking trip.  So, I challenge you, Oh Wise and Sanctimonious One, to identify the "broad, sandy beaches" of El Salvador where OP and her mother could enjoy an authentic Salvadoran experience surrounded by the locals.  Because, see, you are talking to someone who is fluent in Spanish, has explored the entire friggin' region by chicken bus on trips lasting months as a time.

It's possible to love a country and love a people while at the same time be honest about what a landscape looks like and to think that a certain location probably isn't the best choice for a certain kind of trip.

In short, get the hell off of your high horse.

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I already mentioned a nice beach near San Salvador: San Marcelino. Beautiful Pacific beach with plenty of nice seafood stalls. There are many others of course. Just ask the thousands of Canadians who flock annually to the Decameron on the coast near Santa Ana. And you claim to like the country and its people, but you just think the beaches suck and the country as a whole is dirty and not appropriate for most “North Americans”? Because those are kind of incompatible sentiments. Reading between the lines, it seems quite clear you have a superiority complex and think OP and her decrepit mother should stick to Puerto Rico or Punta Cana or whatever. We get it, you’ve said it a million times. So please let OP decide for herself at this point. Your chicken bus storiea are neither original nor exciting, thanks. [/quote]

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