A perfect week in El Salvador

This is the part where I start sweating buckets and probably don’t stop for the next four months. First impression of El Salvador, it’s warm. Very warm and I’ve resigned myself to the fact I’m going to have a SUL (sweaty upper lip) for the remainder of my time here. El Salvador is the second least densiely populated country in Central America and currently the most dangerous country in the world due to having the highest murder rate in the world. Reading about El Salvador’s high crime rate and shocking murder rate should have been a deterrent to heading off hiking and running on trails alone but after a few days here I felt very safe and found the people so genuinely friendly. Not like other countries where if someone is being friendly I was always thinking right, what is it you want? It seems here people are nice for nothing. I’ve been running and hiking alone and have come back unscathed. So far so safe in El Salvador, touch wood. I’m still in the country so I’m afraid of jinxing it. El Salvador…