Sta. Marta - Scenes

1 Map of Sts. Marta.	2 A local, typical intercity "bus."	3 Many buses in El Salvador are recycled school buses from the USA, painted bright colors.	4 Students getting ready for a ride to see the Limpa River, about 10 km from Sta. Marta.	5 Trying for a cell phone signal.	6 School building.
7 Sta. Marta church. Featured on the right is a picture of martyr Father Oscar Romero.	8 Street scene near church.	9 Hill side with crops planted by hand. There is little mechanized farming due to the nature of the land and high cost of machinery.	10 The home of one of the more prosperous families in Sta. Marta.	11 This mule stood just inside a barbed wire fence we passed each day on the wya to meals.	12 Another street scene — livestock roams the streets.
13 More livestock near a store.	14 A young lady sits on a tree fallen across a stream used by women of town to do laundry (next picture).	15 Donning laundry by the stream.	16 Another home just behind the kitchen where we ate our meals.	17 Closeup of front yard. Rocks anchor sheet metal roof.	18 A home we passed daily on the path to meals.
19 Another typical home.	20 School children on the path and bridge over a stream that flows through town. We followed the path to and from meals.	21 Here the path is not paved.	22 Another path which we took during a tour of Sta. Marta.