Border Crossing - Guatemala into El Salvador

This video is brought to you in part by the El Salvador Tourism Board. Good morning everyone so today is February 22nd and I am off to El Salvador. It is 7 a.m right now and I should be leaving here in about an hour. Taking off to the border it's about a two and a half hour three hour drive. There I'll be getting picked up by the El Salvador Tourism Board. I'll be doing a trip with them for nine days exploring everything throughout the country. The one thing that I can't wait to see in El Salvador is the Mayan ruins. It's the only place in the world where you can see the houses of the regular people of the Mayan world from 1,500-2,000 years ago. So that's like the highlight of the trip for me and yeah I'm extremely tired. You know I've been traveling 12 straight days within Guat, the Guatemala Tourism Board. I gotta thank them for this trip. It's been incredible. It's changed my perspective of the country. Everybody said it was dangerous and you know it wasn't dangerous at all for me especially because I have a driver and a guide so I wasn't like walking down any bad streets or any alleys you know. So yeah let's go to El Salvador. Vamanos. Vamanos. Alright so we're here on the border. As you can see it says welcome to Guatemala and over here we have the border crossing. So right now we're just waiting for the El Salvador Tourism Board to cross the border, pick me up and then we're gonna cross over. I'm gonna actually put my GoPro on my chest so I can cross over and film the entire process. Alright so goodbye Guatemala. Hello El Salvador. Alright so we've been waiting here for about an hour and basically they're a little late you know. This right here is the border of Guatemala. We have to go through a little small section and then we'll get to the El Salvador border. It's crazy. Alright so I just got picked up by Benjamin. He is my guide in El Salvador. He's gonna be with me for the next nine days. Helsin. Perfecto. So Helsin and Benjamin will be showing me the country. El Salvador. We're almost in. We basically have to pass this little midpoint and then we're gonna cross and then I have to stand my passport and then we'll be inside El Salvador. Yeah actually we're gonna pass a bridge that is the La Paz bridge that means peace river and after the bridge in the middle of the bridge we're gonna be in El Salvador. Perfect awesome let's do it. Alright so we're here in El Salvador and right now we're headed to Santa Ana. This is one of the main cities right outside of San Salvador about an hour northwest of the capital and Benjamin he's gonna talk to me about a little bit about the history of Santa Ana. Well Santa Ana is considered probably the second most important city and it has a history from our ancestors the Pocumames, Lencas and Mayas. In Santa Ana area its name is in Nahuatl. That means the priest lady's city or area. And what was the language that they spoke here you told me it's like it's disappearing. They spoke Nahuatl. Nahuatl is like they have the Mayas have like a main root of all the languages that is Nahua but we spoke we used to spoke Nahuatl with a T at the end. Nahuatl. Nahuatl yes. Perfect okay great let's get there. Okay we're right here in Santa Ana we're gonna have lunch we're in a very nice place that is called El Patio it's a beautiful restaurant here in Santa Ana and well David is gonna try something new he's gonna try what David? I'm gonna try a pilsner this is the typical beer here this is like the beer of beers in El Salvador as you can see it's not pilsner or kelp it's pilsner and it's a lager all right so let's see. I mean I've drank way too much gallo in Guatemala gotta get my pilsner on let's see wow looks very light wow very refreshing fantastic all right so what I have right here is filet mignon with a mushroom sauce oh my god I can't wait to eat this I haven't eaten in about 12 hours this is a typical um this is meat with plantains a sausage uh fried beans and fresh cheese oh my god it looks fantastic oh yeah I love this cheese right here