Wife and I visited El Salvador over the summer. Went to some ruins (Tazumal). Neat pyramid and some smaller structures.
Interesting thing is the guide told us that the entire area is sitting on top of a buried Mayan city. Every time the locals dig a well they have to literally blast through some ancient buried structure. Now it's true that ES was in a civil war for a long time and it's a poor country, but it's hard to imagine a site like that is just sitting unexcavated like that. Nobody really knows what might be buried there. Just the potential tourist dollars would seem to make it worth it. I think it's registered under Unesco but it's still a mystery waiting to be uncovered.
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Wife and I visited El Salvador over the summer. Went to some ruins (Tazumal). Neat pyramid and some smaller structures.
Interesting thing is the guide told us that the entire area is sitting on top of a buried Mayan city. Every time the locals dig a well they have to literally blast through some ancient buried structure. Now it's true that ES was in a civil war for a long time and it's a poor country, but it's hard to imagine a site like that is just sitting unexcavated like that. Nobody really knows what might be buried there. Just the potential tourist dollars would seem to make it worth it. I think it's registered under Unesco but it's still a mystery waiting to be uncovered.