Discover El Salvador’s volcanoes, colonial towns and coast on an 11-day journey from San Salvador to La Libertad, with a pupusa-making evening, archaeological sites, Ruta de las Flores villages, a turtle-monitoring boat trip, and a hike to Santa Ana’s crater.
  • Visit UNESCO-listed Joya de Ceren, a Maya village preserved in ash.
  • Explore the cobbled streets and colonial charm of Suchitoto.
  • Learn to make pupusas, El Salvador’s beloved national dish.
  • Hike Cinquera rainforest with ex-guerrillas sharing civil war history.
  • Join a biologist to monitor endangered hawksbill turtles by boat.
  • Wander the Ruta de las Flores villages and vibrant street food markets.
  • Hike Santa Ana volcano to the milky-green Ilamatepec crater lake.
  • Visit Tazumal’s Maya pyramids and the site’s small museum.
Stay at a range of comfortable properties: Villa Terra Hotel in San Salvador; Hotel El Tejado in Suchitoto; Hotel Puerto Barillas at Jiquilisco Bay; Fleur De Lis in Ataco; a night of glamping in fixed tents at Tres Volcanes; and Hotel Atami on the coast near La Libertad.