The 'Pompeii of the Americas': a Maya farming village buried under volcanic ash around 600 AD and preserved almost intact. Unlike the great ceremonial cities, it shows how ordinary Maya lived, with houses, storerooms, a sweat bath and fields, and even pots of food left behind. It's El Salvador's only UNESCO World Heritage Site.
The site and museum are small and take an hour or two. The pyramids of San Andrés and Tazumal are nearby.
Santa Tecla, a modern city on the edge of San Salvador, has turned its historic street, the Paseo El Carmen, into a pedestrian zone of cafés, bars, r…
El Salvador's highest volcano, 2,381 m, with a hike of about 2 hours to the crater rim and its steaming turquoise lake.
A laid-back surf village on El Salvador's Pacific coast, named after a rock shaped like a pig (tunco) on the beach.
A route of about 36 km through the coffee-growing mountains of western El Salvador, linking colourful colonial villages: Nahuizalco, known for wicker…
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