Imagine waking up to the misty light of the morning. The clouds are letting in some morning rays, softly illuminating the city. You sit up, leave your bed and walk into the garden that sits just outside your room, looking up to the morning sky. Taking up a large part of the sky is the Quezaltepec Volcano (commonly called the San Salvador volcano), watching over the capital city as the day breaks.
I've normally woken up to this view, but I only saw the volcano from afar. Last weekend I had the chance to visit the crater of this volcano, and this post is about my time getting to know el Volcán San Salvador.
This volcano dominates the capital city of El Salvador, San Salvador. No matter where you are in the city, you can see the volcano looming in the distance. As such, I’ve always been curious as to what the volcano looked like from up close!
The crater of this volcano is about an 11-kilometer drive up from the city, in an area that is now called the Parque Nacional El Boquerón (the "big mouth" national park). The Salvadoran government made this area into a national park in 2008.
There used to be a lake where the crater usually is, but all this lake’s water evaporated right before the volcano’s last eruption in 1917.
