Ruta de las Flores, Suchitoto and pupusas

• Ruta de las Flores · weekends

  Juayúa

  92.3 km · ~101 min from the house

  A mountain town founded in 1577 and the reason to drive the Ruta de las Flores on a weekend: its food fair fills the plaza with grills every Saturday and Sunday.

  Sources: [1] [2]

• Ruta de las Flores · murals

  Concepción de Ataco

  109.3 km · ~115 min from the house

  Cobbled streets, painted walls on almost every corner, and coffee grown in the hills around it. The most photogenic stop on the route.

  Sources: [1] [2]

• Colonial town · lake

  Suchitoto

  93.3 km · ~97 min from the house

  Well-kept colonial architecture and cobblestone roads above Lake Suchitlán, the largest body of fresh water in the country. Pair it with Los Tercios.

  Sources: [1] [2]

• Food · everywhere

  Pupusas

  The national dish: a thick corn or rice griddle cake stuffed with cheese, beans, chicharrón or squash, eaten by hand with curtido and tomato sauce. There’s a national pupusa day on the second Sunday of November.

  Sources: [1]

Distances are by road from Club Atami. Times are OpenStreetMap routing estimates without traffic; allow more. Guide photos are from Wikimedia Commons and show the places, not The Cabin.