The funky busses of El Salvador

While we were visiting, someone joked that "El Salvador is where old school busses go to die..."

It was funny, but it seems that perhaps they travel there to take on a new life!

Each bus is brightly and very individually painted and carefully maintained by the driver, and they seem to travel everywhere in the country. Apparently, the fare is as little as $2 US for a 2-hour trip across the country, and they seem to be heavily used.

Also, the rear of most of the busses, (what I would remember as the "Emergency Exit" from grade school,) is actually used as a valid and often used entrance and exit!

Here are a few of my favorite bus photos - note the shark fins on one of them!

We rode these busses to the worksite pretty much every day - as you can imagine, they were quite dusty and sweaty on the way back to the hotel at night!

(These and more photos are available at full-size, and in their full glory on my flickr account.)