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El Salvador Vacations, El Salvador Luxury Hotels, and El Salvador Luxury Resorts
Here you'll find the very best El Salvador luxury hotels and vacation packages. El Salvador is blessed with incredible landscapes, towering mountains, active volcanoes, beautiful beaches, pristine, turquoise waters, verdant jungles, incredible history and diverse cultures.
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El Salvador has a developing economy. Tourism facilities are not fully developed. The capital is San Salvador.
ENTRY AND EXIT REQUIREMENTS: A current U.S. passport and a one-entry tourist card are required to enter El Salvador. The tourist card may be obtained for a fee from airlines serving El Salvador. Travelers who plan to remain in El Salvador for more than thirty days can apply for a multiple-entry visa, issued free of charge, from the Embassy of El Salvador in Washington, D.C. or from a Salvadoran consulate in the United States. Travelers may be asked to present evidence of U.S. employment and adequate finances for their visit at the time of visa application or upon arrival in El Salvador. An exit tax must be paid, either in Salvadoran colones or U.S. dollars, when departing El Salvador from Comalapa International Airport in La Paz.
Travelers should be aware that airlines operating out of Comalapa International Airport require that passengers boarding flights bound for the United States have appropriate travel documents. Under airline policy, certificates of naturalization and birth certificates are not accepted by the airlines as travel documents. Passengers must have a valid, current U.S. passport to board flights to return to the United States, and information to the contrary should be disregarded. U.S. citizens traveling to El Salvador for any reason without valid passports must apply for a passport in person at the U.S. Embassy in San Salvador before attempting to return to the United States. Citizens applying for passports overseas are reminded that original proof of citizenship and identity is required before a passport can be issued. Photographic proof of identity is especially important for young children because of the high incidence of fraud involving children.
Minors traveling on Salvadoran passports must have the written permission of both parents to depart El Salvador. This restriction does not apply to minors traveling on U.S. passports, but it may be prudent for minors doing so to include a notarized statement from a parent or guardian as a precaution.
For additional information on entry and exit requirements, travelers may contact the Embassy of El Salvador at 2308 California Street N.W., Washington, D.C. 20008, tel. 202-387-6511; or a Salvadoran consulate in Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, New Orleans, New York or San Francisco.
SAFETY AND SECURITY: The peace accords signed in 1992 between the Government of El Salvador and the rebel group known as the FMLN ended a bitter civil war in El Salvador. Areas formerly considered conflictive zones or zones of concentration for demobilizing guerrillas are now open for travel. The U.S. Embassy, however, warns its personnel to drive with their doors locked and windows raised, to avoid travel after dark, and to avoid travel on unpaved roads at all times because of random banditry, carjackings, criminal assaults and lack of police and road service facilities. Most fatal accidents or robberies and assaults occur during the evening or early morning hours. Travelers with conspicuous amounts of luggage, late-model cars and foreign license plates are particularly vulnerable, even in the capital.
Many Salvadorans are armed and shootouts are not uncommon. Foreigners, however, may not carry guns, even for their own protection or for use on the road from the United States, without first procuring from Salvadoran officials a firearms license. Failure to do so will result in detention and confiscation of the firearm, even if it is licensed in the United States.
Mine removal efforts ceased several years ago, but land mines and unexploded ordnance in back-country regions still pose a threat to off-road tourists, backpackers and campers.
Visitors to the beach areas of El Salvador should use caution when swimming in the Pacific Ocean due to strong undertow currents along much of the coast.
Land area: 20,720 sq.km. Population: 5.05 million (1992 census) Capital: San Salvador (pop. 1.5 million, 1992) Adult literacy: 73% Rural/Urban population: 66%/44% (1990) |
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