Panchimalco

Just a 35-minute drive south of San Salvador and rolling down the Planes de Renderos, visitors get to this town, the most colonial city in the proximity of the capital. This is one of the few aboriginal villages whose dwellers hold on tight to their own old-timed traditions. The most picture-perfect site in Panchimalco is a 225-year-old church still filing baptize records as old as 1655. Featuring a classical whitewashed colonial facade, this particular church has lived out larger-than-life mahogany trees and lovers, cobbled streets and dark-brown mountainous landscapes. Panchimalco stands for one out of a handful places with some residents who speak fluent Nahuat and still celebrate the colorful Palm Trees Procession in the month of May. It’s not hard for visitors to find the House of Culture, the right place to learn about the local history and watch weavers carrying traditional looms tied up to their waists.