Playa El Tunco, El Salvador

After a long week studying hard we felt like we deserved a rest so headed for the sun and beach in El Salvador. The night before we were due to catch the bus there at 4 in the morning Alex in his true style got absolutely wrecked! He made the mistake of passing out an hour before we were leaving, he woke up feeling so rough and sick. We said our goodbyes to Elyse (well one of us did while the other one had they're head down the toilet!).Luckily the border crossings were easy and we were the only people on the bus. The difference in weather was unbelievable, it was so hot in El Salvador compared to the rain and cold we had become used to in San Pedro.
We slept our hangovers off ...

and then headed down to check out the beach...

We headed out to the beach restaurant and as we sat down a surfer was running out the sea carrying a boy with blood gushing out of his side. We immediately thought shark attack but later found out he had collided with a little sword fish jumping out the water (bad luck)...this is what we got from out Spanglish anyway. We soon forgot the commotion with a beer and a lush sunset when a guy sat next to us with a Boa Constrictor wrapping around his neck. Deb almost ran out the restaurant when he put the snake down on our table even though he told her its only a baby!!

The next day everyone in the hostel ( all 8 of us ) got taken surfing to a beach 10 minutes ride away by the owner of the hostel. It was a lush and quiet beach with a bar on it. After our attempts of surfing we all went to the bar early and got drunk.

After a week of doing nothing it was hard to get ourselves motivated to do anything so we thought it was time to leave and booked our ticket to Leon, Nicaragua.