The Secret of El Salvador - Terrific Beaches Just Minutes From a Major Airport

If airlift is the key to the second home door, then Elsecond largest U.S. Embassy in the world. The
Salvador is the best bargain on the street. It may lookdistance between San Salvador and neighbor capital
like a fixer upper because of the country's history withcities of Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua is about
hurricanes, earthquakes, war and poverty but its mainthe same (4-hour drive). Approximately 70 percent of
airport - now the hub of all of Central America soonthe regional commerce is concentrated in these four
will be hosting more than 2.5 million passengers a yearcountries.
- is 20 minutes from the region's Costa del Sol andTACA International Airlines, owned by a Salvadorian
some of the finest beaches on the West Coast. Iffamily, operates about 65 percent of all the traffic in
there is one single amenity that drives second halfand out of the El Salvador International Airport also
traffic it is waterfront property and El Salvador hasknown as Comalapa International Airport. TACA, which
200 miles of Pacific Ocean coastline that few Northis expanding its hub in El Salvador, provides non-stop
Americans have ever seen, let alone researched for aservice to San Salvador from Toronto, New York,
real estate purchase.Washington, D.C., Miami, Los Angeles and Chicago and
El Salvador, from the Spanish word "The Savior", isrecently purchased a string of regional carriers that will
bordered by Guatemala on the west, by Honduras atprovide additional flights within Central America and the
the north, by Nicaragua and the Gulf of Fonseca onCaribbean. Delta (Atlanta), United, Continental (Houston)
the East, and by the Pacific Ocean on the South. It isand American also provide direct flights to the
the smallest country in Central America, and has thecountry's capital city.
highest density of population in the region and has the