Seasoned Traveller trips to the danger zone

Seasoned Traveller: trips to the danger zone Paul Mansfield gives a cautious welcome to tourism in El Salvador and remembers his last visit to the troubled Central American country. El Salvador has been off the tourist radar since the civil war in the 1980s Photo: GETTY New for 2009: holidays in El Salvador. Don't all rush at once. This tiny Central American country has been off the tourist map since the civil war in the 1980s, so all credit to the tour operator Bales for including it in its new brochure. A revival has been tried once before. In the '90s another operator briefly featured El Salvador: I went to have a look, and things didn't go well. As a backpacker in the 1970s I travelled the overland route across Iran and Afghanistan. Odd to think now of the latter in terms of desert sunrises, Duke Ellington playing Kabul... [read full story]