Adventure Tour

Destinations El Salvador, Honduras
Category Adventure
Duration 13 days / 12 nights
Location El Salvador

Day 1: Arrival in San Salvador
Day 1: Arrival in San Salvador

You arrive at San Salvador airport. Your driver will take you to your hotel in the city.

Day 2: Apaneca Green Lagoon
Day 2: Apaneca Green Lagoon

The mountains of Ruta de Las Flores, famous for its abundance of wild growing flowers. This region has beautiful panoramic views of the mountain side coffee plantations, lagoons and dense cloud forests.  You will seek adventure around the Green Lagoon with the serene sounds of the cloud forest. You can mountain bike or hike. Another option is to hike to nearby natural attractions like the geysers and thermal bath.

Meals : Breakfast
Day 3: Joya de Ceren - Lake Coatepeque
Day 3: Joya de Ceren - Lake Coatepeque

Joya de Ceren which was declared world heritage by UNESCO in 1993 for being the only location in the whole Mayan culture where you can appreciate the day to day living styles of the popular pre-Columbian inhabitants. Joya de Ceren was buried by several eruptions of volcanoes and the village under 14 layers of ash. The villagers were apparently able to scape in time – no bodies have been found – although they left behind utensils, ceramics, furniture, and even half-eaten food in their haste to escape. Than off to one of El Salvador’s Mayan ruins, San Andres which was inhabited by Maya between AD 600 and 900.

Meals : Breakfast
Day 4: National Park Cerro Verde
Day 4: National Park Cerro Verde

You will get up early to drive to the National park “Los Volcanes". Here come together the volcanoes of Izalco, Santa Ana and Cerro Verde. The volcanoes are located within beautiful scenery and have a wide biodiversity. You will be able to spot some 300 years old trees climbing to amazing heights. There are many species of animals living inside the park; among them are many types of hummingbirds and the black birds known as "chara" which feed other birds such as toucans, during their mating season. On the path ‘The Orchids’, where you can see the beauty of these exotic plants that grow wild in the region. At 10 am you will hike up Volcano Ilamatepec (Santa Ana) 2,381 meters above sea level, the tallest volcano in El Salvador. The volcano has four craters and one of them held a sulfur lagoon. It's most recent eruption was on the morning of October 1st. 2005. The volcano is located within the hills of Apaneca, surrounded by cloud forests, in region full of coffee plantations. You will have a great view to Lake Coatepeque, a beautiful, clean, and sparkling blue crater-shaped lake.

Meals : Breakfast
Day 5: Apaneca - Suchitoto
Day 5: Apaneca - Suchitoto

Suchitoto has great colonial houses and church, art galleries and is close to Lake Suchitlan, a former river that was dammed and has an ecosystem that offers much ornithological interest for abundance as well as for the variety of species, pelicans, herons and storks. We will have a historical city tour around all the interesting points in town.

You will do an indigo workshop. Indigo is a natural colorant extracted from the Xiquilite plant. It was a very important element for the Mayans since they used it for magical/religious rituals, as a medical plant, for pottery and for painting. When the Spanish “Conquistadores” arrived to El Salvador in 1524, Indigo became the new source of wealth in the region when indigo was being exported to Spain.

Meals : Breakfast
Day 6: Cinquera
Day 6: Cinquera

Cinquera, is a small and picturesque rural community located in the Salvadorian Department of Cabañas, where the post war community is a great example of how to work together to have a better life. Here, sustainability and establishing a nature preserve is a high priority. The history of this community changed from being a ghost town during El Salvador’s civil war to a well-organized community living in peace. Here, you will visit their natural reserve, where you will hike through the rainforest with local guide ex guerilla worrier during the last Civil war. Here we visit their natural reserve, guerrilla campsite, trenches, Vietnamese kitchen, waterfalls, iguana farm, butterfly farm, communitarian restaurant, church, murals and monuments. War anecdotes and testimonies are told by local ex guerrillas, taking you on a spoken movie from early 60´s to present time.

Meals : Breakfast
Day 7:  Transfer to Copan, Honduras
Day 7: Transfer to Copan, Honduras

Located close to the Guatemalan border, Copán is the main highlight of our cultural offering with the most elaborate high relief sculptures in the Mayan World and two world-class archaeological museums. The time-tested skills of Mayan ancestors still exist today with specially honed skills for working with wood, leather and stone carving. The city of Copán has narrow streets, along with the brightly colored buildings and a friendly intimacy that creates a warm and inviting tourism center. The site of Copán itself, is the most studied archaeological site in the Maya world, through the city and the site you can truly understand the balance of life of the Maya ancestors and how they have influenced life in the country today.

Meals : Breakfast
Day 8: Copan – Mayan Ruins
Day 8: Copan – Mayan Ruins

Located in the valley of the same name, west of Honduras is perhaps the largest source of information on the ancient Maya civilization. The Copán Ruinas Archaeological Park is located 1.5 km from the town. In the year 1980 it was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO and considered by guides and archaeologists as the Paris of its time, the archaeological park of Copán Ruinas is a city that impresses in every way. Here, political, religious and civic events were held. The Main Group can be divided into two areas: Gran Plaza and Acropolis. While the first was a public space, the second was a closed area, reserved for the ruling elite.

Meals : Breakfast
Day 9: Tela – Punta Izopo
Day 9: Tela – Punta Izopo

This is where to go on the Honduras Caribbean coast if you want to relax and be near/on the beach and swim in the sea.

Tela is located half way between the cities of San Pedro Sula and La Ceiba. Originally the headquarters for the United Fruit Company in Honduras, Tela has a largest concentration of Garifuna villages in the World! The villages of Triunfo de La Cruz, Tornabe, San Juan and Miami are only some of the many Garifuna communities around the lovely Bay of Tela. Some of the best beaches in Honduras are found in Tela.

Meals : Breakfast
Day 10: Punta Sal
Day 10: Punta Sal

Tela to Punta Sal, it is a 45-minute boat ride. Jeannette Kawas National Park accessible only by water is a great opportunity to enjoy an unspoiled beach, snorkeling, hiking, wildlife and a delicious local style lunch.

 

Punta Sal is an excursion of diversity. Traversing the peninsula on foot – through mangrove and tropical forest, you will have an hour to walk around the National Park, with the opportunity to see monkeys, spiders, and butterflies.

Meals : Breakfast
Day 11: Rafting  - Cangrejal
Day 11: Rafting - Cangrejal

The beauty of the Cangrejal river basin is admitted by many, but especially by nature lovers, it is a green place where you will enjoy the fresh and pure mountain air, the delicious smell of the jungle with its exotic and timber trees flowers and the relaxing sound of the waters of the Cangrejal river, the birds and the wild animals that inhabit this important ecological sanctuary.

Meals : Breakfast
Day 12: Pico Bonito National Park
Day 12: Pico Bonito National Park

Pico Bonito National Park has several types of forests and each one of them houses a great variety of animal and plant species, many of them in danger of extinction, among them we can mention jaguar, puma, tigrillo, tapir, White-tailed deer, anteater, white-faced and howling monkey, yellow-bearded snakes, corals, ducks, goldfinches’ quetzals and many others.

Meals : Breakfast
Day 13: Departure
Day 13: Departure

Breakfast. Transfer to San Pedro Sula Airport.

Included

  • Meals as stated
  • Hotels accommodation as stated
  • English speaking guide on tours
  • Entrance fees to sites - parks - etc.
  • Private Transportation
  • Taxes

Not Included

  • Any additional/extra tours or park fees
  • Any other service not mentioned in the “included” list or the itinerary
  • Extras at hotels
  • International Flights