Tours and activities
Ruta de las Flores, El Salvador
Juayúa, Sonsonate
A route of about 36 km through the coffee-growing mountains of western El Salvador, linking colourful colonial villages: Nahuizalco, known for wicker…
Travel tips in El Salvador
Natural features
El Tunco beach
La Libertad
A laid-back surf village on El Salvador's Pacific coast, named after a rock shaped like a pig (tunco) on the beach.
Historic sites
Joya de Cerén
San Juan Opico, La Libertad
The 'Pompeii of the Americas': a Maya farming village buried under volcanic ash around 600 AD and preserved almost intact.
Walks and treks
Santa Ana Volcano
Santa Ana
El Salvador's highest volcano, 2,381 m, with a hike of about 2 hours to the crater rim and its steaming turquoise lake.
Food and drink
Paseo El Carmen, Santa Tecla
Santa Tecla, La Libertad
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…