We visited 5 sites of Mayan ruins while touring El Salvador, all of which were located in the central to northwest half of the country. We started with Cihuatan, the most extensive site with an estimated 25,000+ inhabitants; some believe it was the largest prehispanic Mayan city between Guatemala and Peru. It is the first…
[By the time you see this post, Dear Reader, The Fox will have left Marina Barillas on April 1 and will have (hopefully) visited anchorages in the El Salvador portion of the Gulf of Fonseca, then moved on to explore a bit of Nicaragua. However, for the past 2 months as we've traveled ever-southward, we've…
First, some background. The Gulf of Tehuantepec is a large body of water bounded on the east by the narrow isthmus that separates the Gulf of Tehuantepec from the Gulf of Mexico, near Mexico's southern border with Guatemala. The T'pec spans roughly 250 miles from the town of Huatulco on its northwestern edge, to the…