El Salvador – Nicaragua – Costa Rica

Destinations El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica
Category Cultural
Duration 15 days / 14 nights

Departure dates 2020:

  • January 23
  • March 5, 19
  • April 9, 23
  • May 7, 21
  • June 11, 25
  • July 09, 23
  • August 6, 20
  • September 3, 17
  • October 08, 22
  • November 5, 19
  • December 3

Day 1 –  Thursday : Arrival to El Salvador International Airport
Day 1 – Thursday : Arrival to El Salvador International Airport

Welcome to El  Salvador!

One of our driver’s will pick you up at the International Airport and transfer you to your hotel in San Salvador.

Standard Hotel:  Árbol de Fuego

Superior Hotel: Barceló

Day 2 – Friday: Transfer to Ataco
Day 2 – Friday: Transfer to Ataco

Flowers Route 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. The mountain town of Ataco is becoming in a door for all the artistic community, it’s traditional producing of colorful textiles and the artistic murals painted on the walls of the colonial style houses.

Afternoon at Leisure

Optional Tour: Coffee Tour Finca El Carmen

Standard Hotel:  Fleur de Lis

Superior Hotel: Casa Degraciela

Meals : Breakfast
Day 3 – Saturday:  Ataco - Joya de Ceren - Suchitoto
Day 3 – Saturday: Ataco - Joya de Ceren - Suchitoto

Visit the archeological site of Joya de Ceren, which was declared a world heritage site by UNESCO in 1993 for being the only location in the whole Mayan World where you can appreciate the day to day living styles of the popular pre-Columbian inhabitants. After this we travel to San Andres Maya site, which was inhabited by Mayans between AD 600 and 900 where you will visit a small onsite museum. Transfer to Suchitoto. Overnight in Suchitoto.

Standard Hotel:  El Tejado              

Superior Hotel: Los Almendros de San Lorenzo

Meals : Breakfast, Lunch
Day 4 – Sunday - Suchitoto walking tour
Day 4 – Sunday - Suchitoto walking tour

Your guide will pick you up at the hotel for your walking tour. Suchitoto dates back to pre-Columbian times and on the arrival of the Spanish it was one of the area’s most densely populated by the Pipiles.  Walking through the narrow streets of the city of Suchitoto, learn its history and its conservation by seeing all of the full colonial buildings and cobblestone streets, and visit the cultural treasures of the Church of Santa Lucia on the main plaza, panoramic streets, old houses, and the “theater of the ruins”.

 

Optional Tours

Option 1: Añil Workshop  

Option 2: Suchitlan Lake Tour

 

Standard Hotel:  El Tejado              

Superior Hotel: Los Almendros de San Lorenzo

Meals : Breakfast
Day 5 – Monday:  Suchitoto - El Cuco
Day 5 – Monday: Suchitoto - El Cuco

Transfer from Suchitoto to the east coast of El Salvador with beautiful remote beaches surrounded by tropic lush. Afternoon of leisure.

Standard Hotel:  Miraflores         

Superior Hotel: Los Mangos

Meals : Breakfast
Day 6 – Tuesday: La Union – Leon [Nicaragua]
Day 6 – Tuesday: La Union – Leon [Nicaragua]

Transfer to La Union in El Salvador, where you will take a ferry to continue your trip to our neighbor country.

You arrive at Potosí border, after migrations and customs procedures you are welcome by one of our representatives, from here you have an overland transfer to León.

Standard Hotel:  Flor de Sarta   

Superior Hotel: El Convento

Meals : Breakfast
Day 7 – Wednesday :  Leon  City – Walking Tour
Day 7 – Wednesday : Leon City – Walking Tour

Enjoy a city tour, we stroll the main streets of the colonial city, visit the World Heritage UNESCO Site, Catedral de León and learn about the culture and history of the first capital of Nicaragua. Afternoon at leisure, optional visit to Cerro Negro Volcano.

Visit revolutionary murals, baroque/ neoclassical churches and an art museum with works of internationally renowned artists. Explore the local market and colonial buildings; the tour ends with a visit to the picturesque rooftop of the largest cathedral of Central America.

Standard Hotel:  Flor de Sarta                      

Superior Hotel: El Convento

Meals : Breakfast
Day 8 – Thursday:  Masaya – Granada
Day 8 – Thursday: Masaya – Granada

You are transferred to Granada, a beautiful colonial town situated at the Lake of Nicaragua. Along the way, you visit the Masaya volcano and Masaya artisanal market. Lunch at a local restaurant. Afternoon at leisure to explore on your own the city. Visit La Calzada Street, famous for the nightlife and the different gastronomic options in it!

 

Masaya Volcano National Park. Your driver will bring you to the summit of the volcano, where you can peek inside the active crater. Your next stop is Masaya´s artisan market, where you can purchase quality Nicaraguan handicrafts.

Standard Hotel:  Patio de Malinche         

Superior Hotel: Plaza Colon

Meals : Breakfast, Lunch
Day 9 – Friday: Las Isletas
Day 9 – Friday: Las Isletas

Boat ride on Lake Nicaragua to visit Las Isletas de Granada.

Situated at the foot of Mombacho volcano, Las Isletas consist of around 360 small forest-covered islands, formed by a volcanic eruption 20,000 years ago. You will be transferred to the harbor where you'll meet the captain and board a motor boat. During the tour, your guide will point out the exotic flora and fauna, to later stop at one of the islands, and visit the San Pablo fort, built in the 18th century to protect Granada against English pirates. Beverages are included during the tour.

Standard Hotel:  Patio de Malinche         

Superior Hotel: Plaza Colon

Meals : Breakfast
Day 10 – Saturday: Transfer to Costa Rica
Day 10 – Saturday: Transfer to Costa Rica

As a regional hub, Tamarindo offers a wide-range of extensive services to visitors including sport fishing, scuba diving, snorkeling, swimming, and horseback riding. Separated from Tamarindo by the Río Matapalo is Playa Grande, an uninspiring crop of pebble-rock seashore except for numerous tide pools that are exposed at low tides.

Tamarindo’s extensive development has imbued elements of affluent foreign culture from modernist cafés to chic restaurants into the fundamentally Tico culture, making for an appealing combination of both worlds.

Standard option: Hotel: Pasatiempo

Superior option: Wyndham Tamarindo

Meals : Breakfast
Day 11 – Sunday: Tamarindo
Day 11 – Sunday: Tamarindo

Morning at Leisure.

Optional Tour: Sunset Catamaran sailing tour

 

Standard option: Hotel: Pasatiempo

Superior option: Wyndham Tamarindo

Meals : Breakfast
Day 12 – Monday: Tamarindo - Monteverde
Day 12 – Monday: Tamarindo - Monteverde

This deep green spot atop Costa Rica’s continental divide inspired a group of Quakers from Alabama to settle here with their families in the 1950s and give birth to what became the nature conservancy movement that has turned Costa Rica into the eco-conservation paradise it is today.

From above or below, discover the spellbinding beauty of the tropical cloud forest that inspired an entire country to preserve its nature.

Standard option: Cloud Forest Lodge

Superior option: El Establo Hotel

Meals : Breakfast
Day 13 – Tuesday: Monteverde
Day 13 – Tuesday: Monteverde

Free day to discover the cloud forest´s secrets.

Optional Tour Available: Zip-line in Monteverde

 

Standard option: Cloud Forest Lodge

Superior option: El Establo Hotel

Meals : Breakfast
Day 14 – Wednesday: Samara – San Jose
Day 14 – Wednesday: Samara – San Jose

Enter to the emerald cloud forest: Let one of our local experts walk you through the tropical cloud forest of Monteverde as you spot birds, plants and animals in some of the most unbelievable places. Seriously, these guys have developed an almost super-human power to spot mysterious creatures in the trees and clouds.

Standard option:  Park Inn by Radisson 

Superior option: Hilton Garden Inn La Sabana

Meals : Breakfast
Day 15 – Thursday: Depature Day
Day 15 – Thursday: Depature Day

Private transfer to the airport

Meals : Breakfast

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
  • Late check-out or early check-in
  • Personal and/or medical expenses
  • Visa and Inmigration Taxes