Surfing for Thanksgiving or Christmas - why not?

A last minute holiday to the beaches of El Salvador to surf the waves is pretty darn inexpensive now.

For around $600, you can fly to El Salvador in the morning and be on the beaches by the afternoon.

Accommodations are cheap, too. Rooms, 5 minutes from the ocean, rent for as low as $6.00 per night.

If you want to splurge, you can get some great digs for as much as $350 per night.

Surf boards are available for rent, too, so you can even slide by without having to bring your own board.

El Salvador from Google Maps

The area marked by the arrows is a great place to surf. Along that line of the beach, from La Libertad north, along the coast about 15 miles, is ideal surfing. There are many small towns and villages for accommodations.

There are also some small areas where you just park your car to get to the beach, and you’re “hanging ten” in minutes.

If you get a bit tired from surfing, the area marked one is a site of an active volcano. Just outside of Santa Ana, the second largest city in El Salvador.

Here, you can climb up the volcano (must have a guide – free of charge!) for a spectacular view of the area.

If you’re lucky to get in the vicinity on the weekend, the town of Juayua closes the center of town to traffic every weekend for a food festival. The foods served include snake, frog legs and the more mundane fare of chicken and beef.

In El Salvador, being the smallest of the countries in Central America, the distances from place to place in the country usually can be driven within a matter of hours.

A local girl coming in from surfing

Along the beaches of El Salvador you’ll see small towns with areas like this. Groups of small hotels and restaurants along unpaved roads.

Groups of small hotels and restaurants along the beaches

Nightlife is like that in the US. During the week things are relatively quiet.

The weekends bring out the “anything” goes crowd, and it can get pretty wild. While I was in El Tunco, there were fire twirlers around the restaurants and bars. To show that they would not be out done, there were even performers on the beach spewing fire from their mouths!

Are you in the dumps with the fall weather?

Getting depressed with the onset of winter?

Take an inexpensive plane ride to El Salvador and relax, enjoy the waves and see a bit of the country.