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Joya de Ceren Archaeological Site


TripAdvisor Traveller Rating: 4.0 of 5 stars
TripAdvisor Popularity Index: #2 of 8 attractions in San Salvador
Traveller Description: Excavation at "Jewel of the Ceren", a pre-Columbian Mayan farming village, that was buried under a volcanic eruption around 600 A.D.
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Attraction type: Ancient ruins
Address: San Salvador
El Salvador

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5 of 5 stars
El Salvador
6 Dec 2009

Joya de Ceren is a World Heritage site only 60 minutes drive from San Salvador. It is a short tour of perhaps 2 hours. Directions to the site are below:- http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=13.800556,-89.389444&spn=0.01,0.01&t=m&q=13.800556,-89.389444 Joya de Cerén was a pre-Hispanic farming community that, like Pompeii and Herculaneum in Italy, was buried under an eruption of the Laguna Caldera volcano c. AD 600. Because... more

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5 of 5 stars
Silver Spring, MD
8 Jun 2006
10
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When we think about pre-columbinan time, our mind fly easily thinking that those people were wild, but not, in Joya de Ceren you can learn how Mayan towns were in daily living how were their houses, what they took as a meal. They were a simple people but with high organization and many of ways works. The best way to... more

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4 of 5 stars
San Salvador
23 Oct 2009

Es interesante ver como vivian las personas en ese tiempo, ya que practicamente dejaron las cosas sin mayor cambio cuando... more

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3 of 5 stars
Tokyo, Japan
26 Jan 2009

観光地に乏しいエルサル唯一の世界遺産です。 「世界遺産」という響きに期待大で行きましたが、現地はとても素朴でこじんまり... more

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San Salvador, El Salvador