Bad Surf Trip to El Salvador
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"My Brothers Went Surfing In El Salvador And All I Got Was This Blood-Stained T-Shirt"
"Enough words. Show me the gunshots."
John and I arrived in the San Salvador airport at around 12:30 local time on Sunday the 10th of September. We had signed up for a trip throgh Wavehunters, in my opinion the worst, fly-by-night, surf operationion in the world.
(I'll be putting up the emails I received from the CEO when I have time. They are hillarious.)
Our guide, from Punta Mango, the worst surf tour company ever, was late picking us up from the airport. This was to become par for the course. (They quickly became "Puta Mango". Don't book a trip with these clowns.) This gave John and I plenty of time to be propositioned by cab drivers. These guys were pretty clever, saying things like, "You want to go to La Libertad? Your ride go already."
The surfing.
Eventually, our guide showed up and took us to our hotel in the port city of La Libertad. After arriving at our hotel we dropped off our bags and went to go for a surf. We were shown the local breaks right in front of our hotel. There were two right point breaks, one of which, Punta Roca, is world class. Then we hit the road and went up to Sunzal, a surf break to the west of La Libertad that looked like a pretty good point break from the shore, but once we got out the peaks were shifting all over the place. It was about head high, but the wave was really lazy, not breaking with any power at all.
After about two hours of paddling, we packed up and went to Zonte, another break to the West. This spot was better with long right lines peeling off a rocky point. It was pretty fun, but it was also getting dark.
The next day we got up early and went back to Zonte, which had gotten smaller overnight, checked another couple spots, and went back out at Sunzal, which was about chest high. Once again the waves didn't really have any power and after surfing for a while, our guide made a suggestion that we go see the Mayan ruins near San Salvador, since the surf was so small.