Articles tagged with "El Salvador"
El Salvador has one Pacific coast, a volcanic spine and a highland shelf, and the difference between them is bigger than the difference between two months. This guide is about what to expect where.
El Salvador admits visitors for up to 180 days, and the CA-4 Agreement gives a separate 90 day allowance shared with three neighbors. Confusing the two is the mistake that costs people money at a border.
El Salvador is compact enough to cross in a day, which makes the season matter more than the region. The dry months are the easy ones, the green months are the beautiful ones, and the hurricane season overlaps the second half of the year.
The Ruta de las Flores links a string of highland coffee towns in western El Salvador. It is a drive rather than a site, and it is the easiest good day in the country.
Suchitoto is the best preserved colonial town in El Salvador and a center of the country's cultural life. It is not a World Heritage Site, and it does not need to be.
Joya de Ceren was buried by volcanic ash around 1,400 years ago and preserved as it was left. It is the one property El Salvador has on the World Heritage List, and what it preserves is ordinary life rather than monumental architecture.