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El Salvador is a country of beautiful contrasts. Due to its small territory it is known as "America's Dwarf" but nevertheless, the greatness of its name honors the greatest gift that God has offered the world: his Son, The Savior of the World (El Salvador del Mundo).

Standby flights with its cheap lastminute flights ensures that you have the opportunity to view vastly different but equally beautiful landscapes in less than one hour! From the city to the beach, from a beach to a mountain, from a village to a volcano, everything in El Salvador seems to be in the palm of your hand.

You're going to El Salvador? When people ask why?, tell them about the surfing, the hiking, and the museums, and they've already stopped listening. You mention being interested in the civil war and they turn around and ask you: 'Isn't it dangerous there?' but they forget the war has been over since 1992.  If they're not convinced - they may never be. But that's their loss.

You, meanwhile, will return with photos of cloud forests in Parque Nacional Montecristo-El Trifinio or the moonscape on top of Volcán San Miguel. Special offers and late deals on holidays to El Salvador offers you the oppurtunity of learning to surf on the best waves in Central America, at Punta Roca in La Libertad; or catch a funk band at a boho bar in San Salvador? Or perhaps go hiking in  Perguin with a guerrilla-turned-tour guide, who'll tell you about the war as it was: terrifying, thrilling, boring, inspiring, confusing, sad. Or experience eco-tourism at its most rewarding, somewhere way off the beaten track, like Tucuba for instance. More than likely, you'll eat pupusas in a city park, watching little boys chase pigeons.

It's hard to understand a place like El Salvador before you go. All you see are the shifting grounds: the gangs, the long war, the refugees. You don't see the broad valleys, the sudden volcanoes, the black-sand beaches, the stories told with a laugh, the people who tell them. Like a colonial church, bright blue, battered by earthquakes, El Salvador is still standing.