Beers, burritos and lots of rain in Tunco Beach, el Salvador

We're in el Salvador, safe and sound in Tunco Lodge in a little town called el Tunco.  We drove down from Antigua, 6 hours in a minibus, with just 2 other people so it was very comfortable but absolutely torrential rain.  There were times we had to slow down because there was so much rain on the road.  A few mudslides and missing bridges but nothing major.  All the bad spots have detours along rutted country roads with cavernous potholes.

Tunco Beach, el Salvador

The border looked like a scene from a zombie trucker movie with tractor trailers backed up for a good mile.  I guess the rain and detours slowed everybody up and no one was moving.  Our driver detoured us through back yards and driveways until we were past most of the truckers, then we jumped out of the van, flashed our passports at the border shack and went on our way.

I'm lying in a hammock as I write, overlooking the pool and a forest of palm trees.  Dinner was a fat burrito and a beer for $4, we watched the waves pound the beach during sunset as an appetizer.  There is just enough development here to keep things lively, but not too much.  Tunco Lodge is barely one year old and apparently 3 years ago this place wasn't even on the map.

When we checked out the waves today they looked pretty damn big and the river that dumps into the ocean has turned the water a thick milk chocolate brown.  I think we'll have to head down the beach a bit so we aren't pounded into the sand. 

Hotel Tunco Lodge

For now the view from the hammock is just fine.