Three countries in one day

Sunday 5th August
A meagre breakfast of Quaker Oat biscuits and we were on board our mini bus by 8am for a day of driving. Thankfully it's both private and air conditioned, so there's quite a bit of space to spread out and it's relatively cool. I managed to sleep and read to pass the time.
In between driving we had lots of border crossings. Augusto had already explained that due to some problems with the roads it would be better for us to reenter Guatemala and then drive to our destination in El Salvador that way, rather than trying to get there directly from Honduras. This meant more stamps at the Guatemalan border but none for El Salvador, for some reason.
We didn't reach our hotel until about 4pm. Along the way we stopped a few times: once at a basillica, and next at a shopping mall for lunch. (Subway sandwich - not exactly sampling the local cuisine but it was nice all the same.) Our final stop was at the site of a volcano eruption which occurred in 650AD. While tractors were digging they discovered some buildings preserved under layers and layers of ash - it turned out there was a village underneath, a bit like Pompei. There wasn't a great deal to see expect for the structures of the buildings, but it was quite interesting reading about it in the museum. By the time Augusto arranged for a woman to guide us around the excavation sites, though, I think I'd started to react to the caffeine in my drink - I'd bought what I thought was a cold raspberry drink at the shopping mall but it had turned out to be iced raspberry coffee, and I'm not used to coffee - because my mosquito bites were driving me CRAZY. I couldn't concentrate on what the poor woman was saying at all.

 Once we were back in the van I dug around in my bag for an antihistimine and then tried to go to sleep. By the time I woke up I felt a lot better, and we were at the hotel in Suchitoto, El Salvador.
I think this hotel is just a rest stop to break up long journeys, really, as there doesn't seem much to do in Suchitoto. The hotel is nice though, and seems popular with the locals. There is a gorgeous view of the lake, and a pool I'm looking forward to using tomorrow.

Once we arrived, some time after 4pm, I didn't really do much except Skype/Facebook etc. and rest in my room until tea. We ate in the hotel at 7, and mine was a little disappointing (bowl of mash with a few mushrooms, brocolli and melted cheese on top) but the drink was nice (strawberries blended with ice). Pretty tired from the journey, we all had an early night.