Ruta de las Flores: What Locals Don't Tell You

The Ruta de las Flores stitches five mountain villages together — Nahuizalco, Salcoatitán, Juayúa, Apaneca and Concepción de Ataco. Everyone visits Juayúa on Saturday for its food festival. We take our guests midweek, when the towns exhale, and open doors to private coffee cuppings, artist studios and family homes serving heirloom Salvadoran recipes.




