El Salvador Photo Galleries

View from our hotel

El Tunco and Juayua

Hotel pool

Our villa kitchen

Villa patio, we also had 2 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms

Hotel's surf tower

Swings on the surf tower

View from the tower

Pool ocean view

Our first pupusas in El Tunco

Beer of choice

The pupusa menu, each $1

El Tunco street art

Surf City!

The pig rock formation

Walking up the beach from El Tunco, we could walk to our hotel

Sunset views

Food court in town where we ate dinner at Capt Cook

We had to get 3 servings of this ceviche it was SO good!

Taminique Waterfall on the hike

There was also a series of smaller falls

Bryan jumping off the top

Another hidden waterfall

We made it to Juayua for the weekend food festival

These were all different types of sweets, we tried many

Fruit, plantains, pork rinds, etc

Freshly fried plantains

Elote loco, street corn with lots of toppings

Another popular thing is shaved ice with flavored syrup and condensed milk

Very delicious!

There were a lot of stalls with freshly grilled meats

Chicken, prawns and steak with rice, beans and tortillas - very good!

More of the sweets we tried, tamarind with sugar

The Juayua cathedral

We had a great view from our hotel balcony!

For dinner more pupusas at a very local shop

Woman making the pupusas

Small church in Ataco

Sunset view from our balcony

Hotel breakfast in Juayua

Volcano view from roadside lookout

Wall art at the coffee estate

We learned all about the process of coffee farming

Some of the other coffee brands

Coffee cherries freshly picked

Machinery, many still in use from 100 years ago

More coffee cherries

More equipment up close

Coffee beans drying in the sun

Coffee beans up close

Rows of coffee beans

They have to rake them by hand to continue drying

A small capybara-esque animal called the Agouti

Coffee cherries on the tree

At the end of the tour we had fresh pour over coffee

Old truck at the estate

The estate is right outside the town of Ataco

Gaucho in Ataco

Crazy real orchids hanging garden

We couldn't believe they were real!

Orchids up close

Enormous tree in the main square

Large mural in Ataco

More street art made the town fun

Ataco was a very artsy town, we love it there

Cathedral in Ataco

Tacos and tortilla soup for lunch

The tacos were delicious!

After Ataco we went to the hot springs

One of the hot springs pools

Group of hot springs pools

There are lots of dogs in El Salvador but very friendly

Juayua lit up at night, most towns had these huge fake trees

Getting ready for 2026!

Sunrise and volcanos

We followed AllTrails for the Seven waterfalls hike

The tallest waterfall

Very lush jungle with falls

This is the waterfall that you have to climb up

Refreshing falls you can stand under to cool off

Looking up the waterfall

Hiking in the jungle

Wall of cascades, where the water comes out of the rock

This water just comes out of nowhere

We spent a while here cooling off

Juayua views

More tacos at a small spot in Juayua

Coatepeque Lake seen from the top of Santa Ana volcano

Coatepeque Lake Area

Breakfast in Santa Ana town

Beautiful large cathedral in Santa Ana

Colorful colonial architecture

Touristy market for souveniers

We came across an area where tons of tortillas were being made

Produce in the market

An abaondoned art school, they wouldn't let you go in

One of many hot dog vendors

Bryan tried the hot dog

Next we checked out the Mayan ruins of Tazumal

Some of this has been rebuilt

We thought too much concrete had been used

One of the largest Mayan sites in this area

Tazumal was worth a quick stop

Mayan stone carving

Colorful streets of Chalchuapa

Chalchuapa cathedral

On the streets of Chalchuapa

More tacos for lunch

Delicious again

Tons of fireworks were for sale

We made it to our hotel on Coatepeque Lake

Coatepeque Lake is an old volcanic crater lake

Hotel pool at sunset

The National Park office on the hike up Santa Ana volcano

There were a lot of agave plants

Agave in bloom with views of the Izalco volcano behind

Izalco volcano

Agave in bloom

Cerro Verde and Izalco volcanos from our Santa Ana hike

Coatepeque Lake seen from the top of Santa Ana volcano

Inside the Santa Ana volcano crater

Impressive sulphurous turquise lake

View of Coatepeque Lake from the lookout on the road

Our hotel from across the lake

We enjoyed lunch at one of the lookout restaurants after the hike

Pupusas and beer

Sunset on the last day of 2025!

Sunset on the last day of 2025!

San Salvador National Palace and Gardens

San Salvador and Costa del Sol

Outside a very large tourist market in San Salvador

Inside the market there were so many stalls

Church with rainbow stained glass, they were closed during the hours we were there

Plaza Libertad and the national library behind

Cathedral in San Salvador

National Palace

Modern police tanks on the street

San Salvador mural with guard

Our apartment on Costa del Sol

Apartment kitchen

We loved the balcony area

Apartment balcony

Apartment pool area

Sunset on Costa del Sol

Sunset on Costa del Sol

Pool at sunset

We walked to dinner up the beach, fried fish and ceviche

Boats at the end of the peninsula

Boats at the over water restaurants

This is the restuarant we went to

Inside the restaurant

Not our favorite ceviche, but locals seem to like with this dark sauce

Fried fish and shrimp

Drone footage of the restaurants

Drone pic of one of the sandbars

Drone footage of the area

La Puntilla beaches

Cute cat in La Puntilla beach

Our apartment with San Miguel volcano behind

Sunset on our last night

Sunset on our last night

Sunset on our last night

Sunset on our last night

Dinner ceviche

Lobster and shrimp with some cheesey rice

Our final lunch at local roadside restaurant

They are cutting open oysters

We opted to have ceviche and pupusas instead

Several kinds of oysters

Our ceviche lunch