Tourist attractions in El Salvador

El Salvador has countless natural scenery, including black sandy beaches paved with volcanic ash on the Pacific coast, beautiful Costa del Sol, and enthusiastic folk customs. In El Salvador, you can enjoy the beauty of nature and sunset at the same time.

San Salvador

San Salvador is the capital of the Republic of El Salvador, the country's largest city and economic and cultural center. It is located in the Amacas Valley southwest of the San Salvador Mountains, at an altitude of 680 meters and has a cool climate. San Salvador is a beautiful city with beautiful scenery and pleasant climate. The average annual temperature is 21 degrees. It is lush with lush vegetation and birds singing and fragrant flowers all year round, making it a famous tourist attraction in the Caribbean.

There are many scenic spots on the outskirts of San Salvador, among which Balboa Park is the most famous. It is 12 kilometers away from the city center, covers an area of 27 hectares, and has an altitude of 1000 meters. The park contains a precious tree species on the verge of extinction in the country-gum pine. There is a lookout tower on the nearby suspended bank cliffs that allows you to view the panoramic view of El Salvador, as well as the majestic Mount San Jacinto and the tranquil and beautiful Lake Ilopango. One kilometer south of the park is Guimen Terrace, which stands on two huge rocks, overlooking the valley scenery and the Indian village of Pachmaco. Green Mountain National Park is located in the west of San Salvador. From the top of the park, you can see the wonderful view of the active Isargo volcano, which has been erupting for 300 years.

Salvador Museum of Natural History The Salvador Museum of Natural History is small, but it contains information about most of El Salvador's creatures and plants. The tour takes an afternoon. The Natural History Museum covers the main themes of Salva's natural resources and cannot be divided into different themes, including geology, paleontology and biology. Among them, geology and paleontology are particularly good.

The purpose of the museum is to promote the development of the natural history museum through the generation of written information, and to let people understand the biodiversity of the country's wildlife and call for the protection of biological species. The Natural History Museum of El Salvador is also a collection of rocks and minerals, paleontology, mammals, birds, amphibians and reptiles, shellfish and plants. The Salvadoran Museum of Natural History provides free guided tours of the museum and its exhibits, and installs a dedicated library and canteen services.

Itapuan Beach Itapuan is the most famous beach in El Salvador. Itapuan means "snoring stone", and the reason why it has this name is also because it is said that there used to be a stone by the sea that would make a strange sound whenever the tide changed. There is a coral reef on the outside of the beach, so the sea is calmer and the waves are smaller. There are many coconut trees on the beach, and the white sand is thin and soft. There is a small fishing village in Itapuan, so dozens of small sampans can be seen, contrasting with the blue of the sky and the sea. El Salvador's turtle conservation program is also located here.

Santa Ana Volcano

Santa Ana Volcano is a volcano in western Salvador, Central America. It is 2385 meters above sea level and is the highest active volcano in the country, about 16 kilometers north of Sonsonate. It erupted once in 1920 and has a Huokou Lake, but the interior is still active and the height continues to increase. The foothills have been reclaimed as coffee plantations; to the east there is Lake Koyatpek. A French expedition first inspected its crater in 1956. There are four nested calderas and craters at the summit of Mount Santa Ana, with a small volcanic lake in the middle. In October 2005, a volcanic eruption caused at least 2 deaths and 7 injuries, and residents of neighboring villages were evacuated urgently. An AFP reporter at the scene reported that hot lava gushed out, ranging from as large as a football field to as small as a car. The scene was quite spectacular.

Ilopango Lake

Lake Ilopango is a crater lake in central and southern El Salvador in Central America. It is a barrier lake formed by an old crater. It is between the provinces of San Salvador, La Paz and Cuscatlan, and 12 kilometers west of San Salvador. The lake is about 13 kilometers long, 9 kilometers wide, 53 kilometers around the lake, and an area of 100 square kilometers. It is the largest lake in El Salvador; the lake surface is 442 meters above sea level and the average water depth is 7 meters. In 1879, the lake suddenly rose and flooded, then erupted lava and volcanic ash, and some volcanic islands appeared on the lake; in 1928, the lake overflowed again, destroying many houses along the coast. Ilopango Lake is located in a plateau with an altitude of 440 meters. It is tightly surrounded by mountains. It has beautiful scenery, water and sky are in the same color, and beautiful scenery. It is a tourist attraction.

El Salvador's Joya Desalen Archaeological Site is located southeast of Mondo Maya and is the birthplace of ancient Latin American civilizations, Mayan culture, including Mexico, Guatemala, Belize City and Honduras, and El Salvador is an important link among many Maya people and places where cultures interact.

The preserved village of the Hoya Desalen Archaeological Site allows us to understand the life of the Mayans before 1400, with a small museum describing the daily life of the Mayans. The town of Chalciapa contains five small sites, all of which showcase to varying degrees the daily necessities of local residents before Columbus discovered the New World. The large amount of volcanic ash that remained was clearly visible, and the city was swallowed up in an instant, so that this site could preserve the appearance of this ancient Central American town intact, vividly showing the many real life pictures of people living at that time.

So far, this site is the only site of its kind discovered by humans in the Western Hemisphere. The site not only retains rich handicrafts, but also provides detailed materials for humans to understand ancient culture.