El Salvador Complete Guide 2026: San Salvador, Joya de Cerén, Ruta de las Flores, Suchitoto & El Tunco Bitcoin Beach
Browse more guides: El Salvador travel | Americas destinations El Salvador Complete Guide 2026: San Salvador, Joya de Cerén, Ruta de las Flores, Suchitoto & El Tunco Bitcoin Beach TL;DR I planned El Salvador as a ten-day loop and found it punched far above its 21,041 km² footprint. San Salvador holds the 1969 Metropolitan Cathedral, the 1971 Iglesia El Rosario with its rainbow stained glass, and the 1917 National Theatre. Joya de Cerén, the UNESCO site inscribed in 1993, preserves a 600 CE Maya farming village under 5 to 7 metres of volcanic ash from the Loma Caldera eruption. The 36 km Ruta de las Flores links Apaneca, Concepción de Ataco, Juayúa, Salcoatitán, and Sonsonate through coffee country. Suchitoto offers colonial cobblestone and Lake Suchitlán at 135 km². The Pacific surf coast around El Tunco and El Zonte hosts Punta Roca and the Bitcoin Beach experiment that began in 2019, two years before El Salvador made Bitcoin legal tender on September 7, 2021. Indians get 90 ...