About El Salvador
Travel Alert: El Salvador continues to recover from serious flooding, particularly in areas around San Salvador. Criminal vigour is a question in El Salvador; see the Dangers & Annoyances department representing details. el Salvador sneaks up on you: in lefty lounge bars in San Salvador, at sobering museums and conflict memorials, and along lush cloud-forest trails; it’s a place of remarkable warmth and intelligence, made all the more appealing representing being so unexpected. Travellers tend to skip El Salvador, wooed by marquee destinations such as Guatemala and Costa Rica, and unnerved by stories of civil fighting and gang violence. But the war ended almost 20 years ago, and crime, while serious, is almost exclusively played out between rival gangs; tourists are almost never involved.