In this episode of El Salvador Unplugged, DBH takes us on the road from Santa Ana to the capital city of San Salvador. After a quick rest, David takes off for Tipicos Margoth, a local eatery where he tries some traditional food and drink exclusive to El Salvador. From pupusas, a corn tortilla mixed with pork, cheese and beans, to horchata, a pumpkin seed beverage, David falls in love with the local fare and the laid back atmosphere it's served in. Both the food and the restaurant are a must try when visiting the capital city. Continuing the tour, David takes off to see the archaeological side of El Salvador, where he'll visit three sites of important Mayan ruins as well as Lake Coatepeque.
About Me: My name is David Hoffmann and for the last decade I have been traveling around the world in search of unique culture, food and history! Since starting Davidsbeenhere in 2008, I have traveled to 71 countries and over 1,000 destinations, which I welcome you to check out on my YouTube Channel, blog and social medias.
I focus a great deal on food and historic sites, as you probably have seen! I love to experience the different flavors that each destination has to offer, whether it’s casual Street food or gourmet restaurant dining. I’m also passionate about learning the local history and culture.
This video is brought to you in part by the El Salvador tourism board
All right. So right now we're entering the capital san salvador. Um, so what we did today is basically we crossed the border
We went to santa anna and now we're going to san salvador. I'm gonna just check in i'm gonna relax for about two hours
Then we're gonna go have dinner we're gonna eat
We're gonna eat pupusas. That is the national dish here in el salvador. David is gonna try it and probably he's gonna fall in love with the pupusas
And what's inside the pupusas actually that's like a tortilla made out of uh corn and then inside you can have basically
three main
Uh things inside cheese
You can have pork that we call chicharron just like in many other countries in latin america
And you can have fried beans or a mixture between all three of them and where we're gonna eat this up
We're gonna eat that at tipico's margot
That is like a typical cafeteria where you can experience just the local way of eating a pupusa and more national dishes
Fantastic. Let's do it. Let's go
All right, so we're going to eat pupusas and over here to the left as you can see
It's a church. It is ash wednesday right now
So today starts lent no or is it today or yeah, exactly
Okay, nice. Nice. All right. So you heard it three different pupusas. Here we go
All right, so I have two pupusas here and which one is what
Okay, you have uh, this one that one is a chicharron pupus chicharron with cheese
So basically I have to get some of this hot sauce
That's too much
Okay
This is called horchata
And this is made out of pumpkin seed exactly you dry it then you grind it
And then you let it rest with water
And then you put a milk if you want some sugar and that's it
Natural beverage. Oh my god. It's so good. I love it
Good morning world. It's 8 30 a.m
Um february 23rd. We are right now leaving san salvador headed to
Three archaeological sites mayan archaeological sites. So benjamin
What uh, what's the name of these sites? Okay. First we're going to visit joya. That is maya village
That's the only place in mesoamerica that you're going to be able to see how the regular people used to live
Usually you go to the cities the big city with the pyramids and all the big stuff, but you start wondering
Okay, how the regular people just like we used to live
And that's the only place for the mayas in mesoamerica that you can see that then we're gonna visit a city with pyramids
That is called san andres
Then we're gonna stop at the lake guatepec lake and then we're gonna go to the last one
And the last archaeological site that is called tazumal
And wasn't that so much just like a little pyramid, well, it's a big pyramid
This is the biggest pyramid that is inside el salvador. Awesome. Yeah, i'm excited. Let's do it. Let's do it
