Thursday morning we set off to climb Volcán Santa Ana which is in a national park with two other volcanoes--Izalco and Cerro Verde. The tourist center is on top of Cerro Verde, so we actually had to first hike down 1900-some meters before we started up again! It turns out Santa Ana is too active, so we got to scale Izalco--a barren, rocky cone of 2100-some meters. Going up was
actually easier than down, though certainly not as fast.
Izalco was really neat because you could see all around (no greenery in the way), and there were occasional holes where smoke was spewing out. The view at the top was incredible, and we barely had enough time to eat a snack and walk around the
crater before we had to descend yet again.
The worst part, though, was the ascent up Cerro Verde because it is all stairs. Man, were our glutes and calves sore the next day!
Gluttons for punishment, after Amelia cooked us a
wonderful dinner, we went out salsa dancing! Well, it was more reggaeton with a few latin dances thrown in at the end, but we had lots of fun anyway. The best (=worst) part was that they alternated an hour of latin music with an hour of this woman singing songs from the 70s and 80s! She had a good voice, but wow were the songs grating! I´m not gonna lie though--we all sang along when we knew them!
Thursday morning we set off to climb Volcán Santa Ana which is in a national park with two other volcanoes--Izalco and Cerro Verde. The tourist center is on top of Cerro Verde, so we actually had to first hike down 1900-some meters before we started up again! It turns out Santa Ana is too active, so we got to scale Izalco--a barren, rocky cone of 2100-some meters. Going up was 
actually easier than down, though certainly not as fast.
Izalco was really neat because you could see all around (no greenery in the way), and there were occasional holes where smoke was spewing out. The view at the top was incredible, and we barely had enough time to eat a snack and walk around the 
crater before we had to descend yet again.
The worst part, though, was the ascent up Cerro Verde because it is all stairs. Man, were our glutes and calves sore the next day!
Gluttons for punishment, after Amelia cooked us a 
wonderful dinner, we went out salsa dancing! Well, it was more reggaeton with a few latin dances thrown in at the end, but we had lots of fun anyway. The best (=worst) part was that they alternated an hour of latin music with an hour of this woman singing songs from the 70s and 80s! She had a good voice, but wow were the songs grating! I´m not gonna lie though--we all sang along when we knew them!
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