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El Salvador - Central America’s Pipeline?

If anyone was looking for a vacation surf spot that is not as crowded or expenisive as Hawaii, and not as far away as Indonesia, let me draw your attention to El Salvador. El Salvador most likely gets overlooked due to its “unsafe” reputation, but traveling down there (with four other girls) this summer proved that theory wrong. Most El Salvadoreans we met were some the nicest people in Central America. El Salvador goes West to East instead of your usual North to South, and there are breaks all along the coast. On the West side, you have Punta Roca, which has been called  Central America’s Pipeline by some travel books. Just fifteen minutes away from Punta Roca, you have a handful of breaks right next to each other, such as El Tunco, El Sunzal, Sunzalito, and another fifteen minutes away you have El Zonte. There are buses that run from each break all through the day (for only like 50 cents). Then, on the East side, there is Las Flores, which is even less crowded. The towns around the breaks are basically made for surf and have just a few bars and very few restaurants where you can get a breakfast with coffee, eggs, tortillas, beans and fried plantains for only $2. And to top it off, you don’t even have to change money because the currency is dollars! Let’s just call it a surfer’s paradise.

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