Sunday, September 19, 2010

Day 1 Photos: Day 1 of Alisha & Lynn’s crazy adventure

Friday, 9-10-2010



Leaving from Des Moines with all of our luggage



We made it to El Salvador!
There wasn't much room left in the car.


FMLN turtles at Los Pinos!


Taking a rest in the hammock


At the University of Central America (UCA)


A sign outside the chapel at the UCA.
I think it's for the people who were recently murdered in Mexico.
Several were from El Salvador.


The museum at the UCA:
The Voice of the Voiceless



Picture of items of Rutilio Grande


Clothes worn by the Jesuit priests when they were murdered


Bits of grass with blood on them from the Jesuit priests


A dictionary that was slashed a few days before the priests were killed

The four small pictures of the Americans that were killed during the Civil war


There were several massacre sites in El Salvador


Scapular and pieces of cloth with Oscar Romero's blood on them


A sign in El Salvador about the increase in violence:
Government and society united against crime and violence
On the t-shirt: Nobody is going to intimidate El Salvador


Lots of police


Inside the National Cathedral


Beautiful stained glass


Beautiful dove


Oscar Romero's tomb

Other tombs below the church


Thinking about Romero


There were a lot more police in San Salvador than usual


The El Salvador del Mundo statue and park area is being touched up


Dinner in San Salvador



1 comment:

Matt said...

You really got to see so much in your first day. I'm glad you finally got to see the museum. That must have pretty moving seeing all the clothes and artifacts from the priests and others who were killed. The picture of the dictionary is really striking.