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nfiliatrault Says: This great little art gallery is filled with vibrant artwork that is a fabulous memento of this colourful town.Owner artist Bailey Bédard offers a warm welcome and always has a funny story to tell. If you`re there for a couple of days, you can even arrange art classes - make...
Colonial Houses - Check out what "Colorful" Means
gdilieto Says: Ataco has many remarkable examples of Spanish colonial houses and, if you haven't done it yet by the time of your visit, you will easily realize what "brightly-painted" and "colorful" means when referred to Spanish colonial houses. A visual representation will provide better...
See Murales Adorning Shops and Houses
gdilieto Says: In wandering Ataco's streets you will come across a handful of murals (murales), generally depicting scenes from local rural life, floral motifs or religious subjects, adorning walls, shops and houses.The mural in the photo, seems to be the second-top travelers-choice sight...
gdilieto Says: The Main Square (Parque Central) is the center of the village life and there is no way you are going to miss it. Ataco's Main Square has the traditional Spanish colonial town structure with a small park surrounded by the Church, the City Hall and other administrative and...
Relax and Enjoy Slow-paced Life
gdilieto Says: There is no much of sights and attractions, in the usual sense of the words, to mention about Ataco. It is a small village with the typical Spanish-colonial architecture: a central square with a church and a grid of streets lined up with brightly-painted one-story houses. It...
gdilieto Says: Believe it or not this woman seems to be the top sight in Ataco. If you don't believe it, check out the photo-sharing website "Flickr.com", search for photos taken in Concepcion de Ataco, and note how many travelers have taken photographs of this woman standing behind the...
MalenaN Says: When I arrived in Ataco I first went to an Internet café to look up the name and address of a hostel I had seen on Hosteltrail. When I later looked for it , it turned out that it had closed down. I asked someone for another cheap hotel, but didn’t find it. Then I went to a...
MalenaN Says: It was not easy to find a place to eat at after 5pm on a weekday. A place by the square had two occupied tables and another place were closing as I arrived. One restaurant mentioned in my guide book was not there anymore and one restaurant only had tortillas. When I asked...
MalenaN Says: El Restaurante Boton is a French restaurant /café serving crepes and quishe. There are many different kind of crepes, crepes with meet and vegetables or sweet ones. I had a strawberry crepes and had hoped to get a crepe with fresh strawberries, but it was filled with a very...
MalenaN Says: All buses leave Ataco from the corner of 2a Calle Pte with 4a Av Norte. Buses are frequent and one was just leaving for Ahuachapán as I arrived. It took 20 minutes and the fare was 0.40 dollars. In Ahuachapán the bus stopped near the market and I walked about two blocks...
To Ataco from Barra de Santiago
MalenaN Says: There are two direct buses from Barra de Santriago to Sonsonate. One is leaving 4.30am and the other at 12. I took the 12 o'clock bus which was leaving from the end of Calle Principal (the same place where I had been dropped the day before). The bus left on time and it took...
gdilieto Says: You don't need anything else but the soles of your shoes to get around Ataco, but in the event, you will find mototaxis for hire in the Main Square.
gdilieto Says: To get to/from Ataco, the alternative to private car and taxis is the bus. Bus line to Ataco is the one which serves the Ruta de las Flores and that goes from/to Ahuachapan to/from Sonsonate stopping in the villages on the way. If coming from San Salvador you shall get to...
gdilieto Says: As tourists you will likely be going to Ataco by bus, taxi or private car. Taxi is a reasonable choice if you plan just to stop by or stay only few hours. At time of my visit there were no taxi stands in Ataco and you will need having your outside taxi waiting for you. I...
Helpfulness
There are a few artesanías (handicraft shops) in Ataco. One of them is Diconte-Axul where you can find painted wood figures, textiles, hand-dyed t-shirts and blouses and much more. I bought myself a souvenir here, a round wood painting for 15 dollars, and I bought postcards, 1 dollar each (June 2009). Inside there is a nice and tranquil café, a perfect place for a coffee and brownie, while writing postcards.
Diconte-Axul is in a colourful building and it looked closed every time I passed by, but if you look on the closed door you will see the sign saying it is open and that you should press the bell. As many shops in El Salvador it was closed with bars even during opening hours.
Written Sep 19, 2009
Phone: 2450 5030
Helpfulness
As well as in other villages I visited in El Salvador, you will find in Ataco plenty of stray dogs wandering the streets, many of them looking quite unhealthy. Be careful.
Updated Mar 1, 2008
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Concepción de Ataco, End of the Flower Route
Although Concepción de Ataco was perhaps the last of the five "Flower Route" towns that lie between Sonsonate and Ahuachapán to begin advertising itself as a tourist destination, the town's tourism......
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