The excellent chef from the Marina, Martin (who learned to cook in El Salvador first from a French and then an Italian chef), provides a van service inland on his days off. We hired him to take us on a tour of the ruins which took us north toward Guatemala. First stop was Joya de Ceren. This site was a bustling village 1400 years ago when the Loma Caldera Volcano erupted and buried the area in 10 layers of ash. Cooking and eating utensils and all kinds of pottery and other objects were left intact. Evidence of meals that were cooking when the inhabitants fled have been discovered. The area is still being excavated.
San Andres is 3 km. from Joya de Ceren. This was a ceremonial site that dated from the time Joya de Ceren was destroyed (in the 600's). Some of it was covered with ash when the volcano again erupted in the 1600's. Only a tiny amount of this area has been excavated and one can imagine the pyramids that are under all the hills that can be seen throughout the area.
Human settlement in Tazumal began in 1200 B.C. Within this over 24 meter high structure, tombs were found containing hundreds of ceramic vessels, jade jewelry, pyrite iron mirrors, ball game artifacts and lizard shaped ceramic figures.
Casa Blanca contains a nice museum and just skeletal outlines of buildings from the settlement there that dates back to 1500 B.C. Remains of the Nahuatl culture have been found here. The museum also tells the story of indigo, its production, and history of use through colonial times.
The excellent chef from the Marina, Martin (who learned to cook in El Salvador first from a French and then an Italian chef), provides a van service inland on his days off. We hired him to take us on a tour of the ruins which took us north toward Guatemala. First stop was Joya de Ceren. This site was a bustling village 1400 years ago when the Loma Caldera Volcano erupted and buried the area in 10 layers of ash. Cooking and eating utensils and all kinds of pottery and other objects were left intact. Evidence of meals that were cooking when the inhabitants fled have been discovered. The area is still being excavated.
San Andres is 3 km. from Joya de Ceren. This was a ceremonial site that dated from the time Joya de Ceren was destroyed (in the 600's). Some of it was covered with ash when the volcano again erupted in the 1600's. Only a tiny amount of this area has been excavated and one can imagine the pyramids that are under all the hills that can be seen throughout the area.
Human settlement in Tazumal began in 1200 B.C. Within this over 24 meter high structure, tombs were found containing hundreds of ceramic vessels, jade jewelry, pyrite iron mirrors, ball game artifacts and lizard shaped ceramic figures.
Casa Blanca contains a nice museum and just skeletal outlines of buildings from the settlement there that dates back to 1500 B.C. Remains of the Nahuatl culture have been found here. The museum also tells the story of indigo, its production, and history of use through colonial times.
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