Joya de Ceren Visit

Itinerary Half-day option (morning or afternoon): After an approximate 30-minute drive, start with a tour of Joya de Cerén, an archaeological site known as the ‘Pompeii of the Americas.’ Learn fascinating facts from your guide about the Maya farming community that was buried under an eruption of the Laguna Caldera volcano around 600 AD. Recognized for its valuable contribution to understanding the pre-Columbian daily life of Mesoamerican populations, the excavation was declared a World Heritage site by UNESCO in 1993. Your half-day tour concludes with a drive back to San Salvador before you’re dropped off at your hotel.

Discover this civilization while visiting the archaeological sites of Joya de Cerén, declared World Heritage by UNESCO in 1993, also called the Pompeii of America, for its valuable contribution to the knowledge of present civilization, in the site admire a pre-Columbian Maya farming village preserved remarkably intact under layers of volcanic ash this because the village was buried by volcano eruption around A.D. 600.