Full Day Ruta de Las Flores Tour: Colonial Towns Exploration and Authentic Coffee Farm Experience
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99 Ratings
Embark on a captivating full-day Ruta de Las Flores tour, exploring colonial towns, indigenous villages, and an authentic coffee farm experience. Discover traditions, delicious food, murals, and more!
Duration: 9 hours
Cancellation: 1 day learn more
Highlights
  • Mercado Municipal - The best fresh market of the area
  • Concepcion de Ataco - Best food festival on weekends
  • Juayua - Best Colonial town
What's Included
  • Private transportation
  • In-vehicle air conditioning
  • All fees and/or taxes
What's Not Included
  • Lunch
  • Tips
Additional Information

The Ruta de Las Flores tour is a captivating excursion across the Apaneca mountain range, one that cannot be missed. This journey takes us to several villages with indigenous origins where you can immerse yourself in local traditions, savor delightful cuisine, take part in coffee plantation tours, admire murals, and enjoy the wonderful weather.
Our adventure commences in Nahuizalco, a town renowned for its indigenous people and local marketplaces. Continuing a few kilometers up the mountains, our next stop is Juayúa. Here, you can explore the main church of El Cristo Negro and the central plaza, and indulge in the local food festival if it’s the weekend. From there, we proceed to Apaneca, where we will pause for a coffee tour and tasting session at the Entre Nubes plantation. Following the route leads us to Ataco, a vibrant town known for its wall murals adorning many houses around and the main street lined with souvenir shops.

Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

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588nyd
Mar 17, 2024
Our trip by the Route of Flowers - The excursion was amazing! The tour guide was knowledgeable, attentive, and courteous. We were both very impressed with the beauty of the country and the wonderful guide from whom we learned a lot of history about El Salvador. Thank you so much!
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Natalyv226
Mar 13, 2024
Family friendly with 5 star service - The tour was a great way to learn about Salvadoran culture and interact first hand with the people. Each stop was filled with different markets and foods to try from. We took this tour my family and baby. Some of the places were stroller accessible but a baby carrier is the best way to transport a baby. The tour guide and driver were so helpful and made sure my family and baby were safe and comfortable at all times during the trip. The tour guide Joshy and the driver were loving and friendly and made the tour 100 x enjoyable for us. The coffee was the best part of the tour! Overall, you can’t go wrong with the company, we can’t wait to take more tours with them in the future!
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Wandertheglobe
Mar 3, 2024
A first-class experience! - En mi reciente visita a El Salvador, tuve el placer de utilizar los servicios de EC Tours. ¡No puedo decir lo suficiente! Los conductores fueron educados, profesionales y puntuales. El guía, Joshua, fue agradable y preocupado por mi bienestar. Además, el propietario fue flexible cuando solicité un cambio en mi itinerario en el último minuto. La compañía es fantástica: úsela cuando viaje a este hermoso país. On my recent visit to El Salvador, I had the pleasure of utilizing the services of EC Tours. I cannot say enough good things! The drivers were polite, professional and on time. The guide, Joshua, was pleasant and concerned for my well-being. Moreover, the owner was flexible when I requested a change in my itinerary at the last minute. The company is fantastic—use them when traveling to this beautiful country.
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Keerag2024
Feb 20, 2024
Great tour - This was a great way to visit several towns in one day. Joshy did a great job showing us around. She was flexible and accommodating. We had a wonderful time. Bonus points for the delicious horchata in the first market.
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Suz345
Feb 12, 2024
A nice day trip from San Salvador - EC Tours introduced me to their beautiful country! I look forward to one day returning to El Salvador. Not only did they coordinate my airport pick up and drop off but also put together my tours before I arrived. Vanessa and Yesenia in the office was very responsive to my questions and ideas. I loved the Ruta de Las Flores tour as Joshy, my tour guide was very knowledgeable and very personable and Alessandro, my driver was very accommodating and he let me practice Spanish with him, too! I learned so much about the past history of El Salvador and enjoyed walking through the 4 towns we visited. The coffee farm is nice. I was able to explore it with Joshy and Alessandro. It was a wonderful day. When I come back to El Salvador - I will definitely contact EC Tours again!
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R1088nrjamesd
Feb 12, 2024
Wow, you must do this tour while you’re in El Salvador! - I did a private day trip to Ruta de las Flores/coffee tasting with my girlfriend and we had the pleasure of having Ricardo as our guide. He was extremely friendly and knowledgeable and his English was absolutely excellent. I would highly recommend this tour to anyone trying to see the most out of El Salvador.
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Steve_m
Jan 30, 2024
Ruta de las Flores - I really enjoyed the experience with Alfredo as our tour guide. He was very helpful and knowledgeable. I would definitely recommend doing a tour with him.
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Jiarens2016
Jan 25, 2024
Ruta de las Flores beautiful - We took a multi-day tour of the route in January. The weather was very comfortable, not as hot as in San Salvador. We had ample chance to see the places, people, culture and drank a lot of coffee. Our driver Alex and tour guide Jocelyn were very good and professional. We got to know the country first hand and enjoyed it. Thanks.
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Bryan_c
Jan 7, 2024
Dependable, Friendly, Well rounded, Postive Experience - Rene was our tour guide its been months since leaving El Salvador and I still remember the entire excursion! We played music in the car and Karaoke to all sorts of genres of music and favorites. Rene speaks EN/ES/FR so that was a plus for language exchange and practice. We visited all four with plenty of time for pictures and fresh fruit tasting. I particularly can not place a price on the learning experience of the Nahua people and their language. We actually learned their history and a bit of their language and I am tempted to come back and do the excursion just for that!!
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Logansk1150sf
Jan 18, 2024
UNSCRUPULOUS COMPANY THAT CHARGES MORE MONEY AND HAS UNKNWON ADD-ON FEES - This tour company is sus!! I have been emailing them - back and forth - for over a week now to do several different tours with them, AND THE PRICE KEEPS INCREASING. They even told me they would include airport pick-up, then in a later email after they said it was included, did they want to charge me. The price for another tour on their website, they now claim, is wrong on the website and they have to charge me more. And for the other tours, they claim it's "high season" so they have to charge me more. This company has zero scruples. They are unreliable and will nickel and dime you for more. Be forewarned that if you book with this tour company, you will likely be charged more and have add-on fees they don't tell you about.
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