A Salvadoran-American who moved back in 2021 and went through the residency process from both ends. Carolina covers the paperwork, the banking and the practical business of settling here.
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Who writes this.
A small team, all of us living here. Every guide carries the name of the person who checked it.
Born in La Libertad, surfing Punta Roca since he was nine. Diego writes the surf coverage and keeps the coastal guides honest about which waves are actually for visitors and which are not.
I grew up in Santa Tecla, and then I had to leave. That sentence covers about two million of us, and for a long time it was the only thing anyone abroad wanted to hear about El Salvador. Leaving was the right decision at the time — my family knew it, and I have stopped arguing with them about it. What nobody prepared me for was coming back to a country I had to learn again from the beginning, and finding it beautiful. I started this site because the El Salvador written about in English was still the one I left, not the one I came home to.