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El Impossible
A view of part of El Salvador's Parque Nacional El Impossible. This is in Western El Salvador not too far from the border with Guatemala. It is supposedly one of the most accessible parks in El Salvador. The park is located at the top of mountain, at the very end of a dirt road which gets less and less maintained as you go up. There are little itty bitty villages all the way up the road right up to the border of the park. Most of the people don't own cars, too expensive, so they travel into the nearby town by pickup trucks which operate as buses. Two trucks leave the mountain in the morning at 5 and 7am and two come back in the afternoon at 11pm and 2pm, meaning if you come up to the park via public transportation you stay the night. First we got sort of stuck half way up the mountain and ended up sitting by the side of the road with an El Salvadorian family for about 2 hours (waiting for a pickup). Then we thought we were going to have to camp out with our mosquito net and sleeping bag, but managed to get a ride down and ended up watching the sun set on the beach. Just the ride up the mountain makes visiting the park worth it.
El Impossible
A view of part of El Salvador's Parque Nacional El Impossible. This is in Western El Salvador not too far from the border with Guatemala. It is supposedly one of the most accessible parks in El Salvador. The park is located at the top of mountain, at the very end of a dirt road which gets less and less maintained as you go up. There are little itty bitty villages all the way up the road right up to the border of the park. Most of the people don't own cars, too expensive, so they travel into the nearby town by pickup trucks which operate as buses. Two trucks leave the mountain in the morning at 5 and 7am and two come back in the afternoon at 11pm and 2pm, meaning if you come up to the park via public transportation you stay the night. First we got sort of stuck half way up the mountain and ended up sitting by the side of the road with an El Salvadorian family for about 2 hours (waiting for a pickup). Then we thought we were going to have to camp out with our mosquito net and sleeping bag, but managed to get a ride down and ended up watching the sun set on the beach. Just the ride up the mountain makes visiting the park worth it.