April 17, 2010
El Salvador Adventures Newsletter
Issue # 8 – April 16, 2010
Hello everyone,
Welcome to El Salvador Adventures newsletter. There have been quite a few new subscribers this month, I hope you will find the information and updates here useful, fun and interesting.
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In This Issue...
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What’s New On The Site
News feeds - Read all the latest news from El Salvador newspapers
Radios - Listen to La Femenina, Radio Laser, Radio Fiesta and more
Famous People from El Salvador - Check them out and see if you recognize any of them
Announce Events for Free - Do you know of any El Salvador events that more people should know about? Announce them all here for FREE. Find events here!
New Recipe! - Try the delicious Sopa de frijoles con carne
News Headlines
The IX Central American and Caribbean Games are on full blast in Panama and El Salvador is at the top of the leader board with a whopping 118 medals won!
Yes, that’s right, El Salvador owns the games and seems unstoppable in many of the events like Karate where they pulled a fascinating 6 gold medals.
El Salvador also won gold in women’s fencing, rowing, wrestling, weight lifting and more!! This is so exciting, we’ll let keep watching the standings and will let you know what the final medal count is.
Here are the standings so far:
| Country | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| El Salvador | 48 | 24 | 28 | 100 |
| Panama | 28 | 37 | 31 | 96 |
| Costa Rica | 22 | 25 | 31 | 78 |
| Nicaragua | 13 | 23 | 35 | 71 |
| Honduras | 7 | 11 | 19 | 37 |
| Belize | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
Featured Hot Spot
San Andres Ruins: The San Andres ruins are a great place to visit, they are located in Antiguo Cuscatlan and it's very easy to get there.
It's really amazing what you can see here, given that this place was a regional capital city of its time, so only important people lived there. There was an acropolis, a communal area where the market used to be and people would gather.
The indigo workshop is one of the highlights of the visit. it was discovered in 1990's and the fun thing is that you can actually dye your own piece of clothing just the way they did it back then! Read more here...
Fun Stuff and Popular Sayings
So who doesn't remember those fun sayings that make the people of El Salvador so unique. To keep this newsletter fun and to help us all to remember those sayings we grew up with, I have decided to add a new section to every issue of this newsletter. I hope you enjoy it and have some laughs with it!
100% Salvadoreño:
El Salvadoreño no tiene dinero, tiene pisto
El Salvadoreño no sale a tomar, sale a chupar
El Salvadoreño no miente, mete paja
El Salvadoreño no juega con los niños, juega con los cipotes
El Salvadoreño no toma soda en lata, toma gasiosa en bolsa
Como se dice:
En Ingles: Copie Bien --- copyright
En Chino: Pelo Sucio --- Chin Champu
En Japones: Electricista --- Yokito Fokito
Want to have a few more laughs? Read more interesting and fun Salvadorian sayings here. and check out the caricature below from RUZ.
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Hasta la proxima!
By Vanessa Henriquez
Editor
www.explore-beautiful-el-salvador.com