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== Getting In ==
El Salvador borders [[Guatemala]] and [[Honduras]].
Honduran border of ''El Amatilio'' (towards Tegucigalpa & [[Nicaragua]]) is rather difficult to leave or reach on long distance vehicles but easy on short lifts. So go for the shorties. At ''El Amatilio'' on the Salvadoran side [[User:Halt, Stop! Reudnitz kommt.|hitchhiker Craig]] recommends to get at least a lift to a gas station at a junction five kilometers into the country. The gas station is a good place to get long distance lifts!
A good border option for [[Guatemala]] is ''Las Chinamas''.
[[user:MOAH|Mind of a Hitchhiker]] crossed the "Frontera Hachadura" from [[Guatemala]] to El Salvador 2014 in the night with a small pineapple truck and three male drivers (one of whom was deported from the USA after doing 10 years in an east coast prison for murder). The border crossing was fine after realizing that the countries [[Guatemala]], El Salvador, [[Honduras]] and [[Nicaragua]] have a 90 day visa free policy for all of them ''combined''. This means that if you stay one month in Guatemala, you'll have 60 days left for the three other countries unless you do a visa run towards [[Belize]], [[Mexico]] or [[Costa Rica]] (the neighboring countries of this visa block). If you stamped in in Guatemala, you won't get a passport stamp in El Salvador. Somehow Honduras did give a stamp again while Nicaragua didn't. If you hitchhike a pineapple truck across this border at night expect it to be a long process as the truck needs to be fumigated. [[user:MOAH|Iris from Mind of a Hitchhiker]] decided to stay with her drivers as finding a new ride would have been exceptionally shit and frankly quite dangerous at that time. ''Pupusas'' are sold in little ''comedores'' directly on the Salvadorian side.
== Random advices ==
* Take some sunscreen though because you can get burnt quickly.
* Taste ''pupusas''! The most wonderful food in the world!The bean version is peculiarly similar to lobiani (bean khachapuri) in [[Georgia]].
== Personal Experiences ==
== Cities ==
* [[San Salvador (El Salvador)|San Salvador]]
* <small>''add more?''</small>[[Santa Anna (El Salvador)|Santa Anna]]* [[San Miguel (El Salvador)|San Miguel]]
[[File:El Salvador traffic jam.jpg|thumb|right|220px|A "traffic jam" on the roads of El Salvador]]