Our tourist book promised a mountain town bathed in fresh, cool air.  After Suchitoto's heat, we definitely needed it.  As we hoped, La Palma is refreshing.  At 3,390 feet to be exact, La Palma is a small town nestled in the jungle...or what looks like jungle.  The whole town is painted in local painter Fernando Llort style, which to us seems like a mix of typical folk art and Picasso cubism.  But, it's nice.  We're staying at Hotel La Palma, a large compound of various buildings with plenty of opportunities to read a book in a hammock or relax and enjoy the views.  We are sitting under the covered porch enjoying a cold Cerveza Golden while it torrentially rains for 30 minutes.  The afternoon/evening rain is typical in June, so I suppose we'll have to find an umbrella.  Before we came, we read that only 4% of the country remains forested, so we came expecting Colorado-style barrenness in much of the country.  Not the case.  Everything is amazingly green here, from plants in the town square to the jungled hills.  Tomorrow we check out El Pital, the highest peak in El Salv at 2730 meters.