Santa Ana Travel Guide

 a005116 Says:  The neogothical cathedral in the hart of the citycenter imediately will get your attention. Wathever you like it or not it is at least remarkable in the country. The catedral was build in 1905 as church but bacame a catedral only 8 years later. 

 a005116 Says:  When I entered the lovely patio of the town hall I almost fainted. Just in the middle of it there's a fountain ánd a real 'Manneke pis', just like in Brussels (in my home country). And that while people looked to us like they had never seen foreigners. They asked us all the... 

 MalenaN Says:  The mint green theatre is standing on the north side of Parque Libertad. It is built in a renaissanse style and It was inaugurated in February 1910. On the opening night an Italian opera company performed with the opera Rigoletto. The interior was grand with marble... 

 MalenaN Says:  The City Hall is a beautiful colonial style building on the western side of Parque Libertad. Above the main entrance there is a clock tower. If you enter through the main entrance you will come to a nice courtyard with palm trees and a fountain where you can sit down and... 

 MalenaN Says:  With its neo-Gothic façade the cathedral in Santa Ana looks different than other churches in El Salvador. Construction of the big church began in 1906. In 1913 the cathedral was inaugurated, but all details were not completed. Inside there are high arches and in the front... 

 MalenaN Says:  In one corner of Parque Libertad I saw an ice-cream café and headed there. At the entrance there were several drunken men though so I continued a bit further along the road and came to El Sin Rival, another ice-cream café. At El Sin Rival they have sorbets in different... 

 MalenaN Says:  When I drink coffee I normally only drink black coffee. I don’t like to have milk or other things in my coffee. But since my last visit to Italy I have started to drink cappuccino too. At the café The Coffee Cup in Metrocentro in Santa Ana they have a big variety of cold and... 

 MalenaN Says:  I had brought snacks from Santa Ana for the volcano hike, but if you don’t have enough to eat there is a small place by the parking lot at the National Park where you can buy more. They sell drinks, bisquits, crisps, cakes and food. In the back of the house there is a woman... 

 MalenaN Says:  Pupusas are typical El Salvadorian food and it can be bought at food stalls all around the country. They are thick tortillas stuffed with minced pork meat, beans, cheese or vegetables. You tell the sales woman which filling you want and she takes a piece of dough, form the... 

 MalenaN Says:  Metrocentro is a big shopping mall in the south part of the city and as most big shopping malls it has a big food court with many fast food restaurants like McDonald’s, Burger King, KFC, Subway, Pizza Hut and Campo Pollo. I don’t normally like these kind of places but this... 

 MalenaN Says:  After visiting Vulcán Santa Ana , I, Denise from France and a couple from El Salvador, had something to eat at the cafeteria while we were waiting for the bus. When we had finished our meals the bus had not jet arrived and there seemed to be quite some time left before it... 

 MalenaN Says:  There are direct buses from Santa Ana to Cerro Verde National Park, but they are not frequent and it is important that you don’t leave Santa Ana too late to be able to join the guided hikes up one of the volcanoes. The bus to Cerro Verde leaves from La Vencedora bus... 

 MalenaN Says:  Lago de Coatepeque is a beautiful crater lake at the foot of Vulcán Santa Ana. When we climbed Santa Ana there was a viewpoint from where you can get a nice view of the lake, but unfortunately it was too cloudy and we couldn’t see it. Not until we were on our way back the...