Starting with a very reasonable pick up time of 9 am, Steve led our massive group of 20 (with 10 kids!) on an amazing tour of San Salvador’s downtown sites, including the Centro Historico, the brand new BINAES library, a street market, anthropological museum, cathedrals, Iglesia El Rosario (pictured), Plaza Libertad, and much more. Oh, the pupusas. Don’t sleep on the bus karaoke on the way back to the beach. Steve, you rocked and leaned into our group’s crazy 🇨🇦 energy. We hope to be back soon!

Awesome visit with super cool guide. The volcano hike is an essential in San Salvador and the use of a guide makes it easier. The lunch in Coatepeque Lake is really nice with tremendous view. Definitely worth it !

Great visit with Gerson to San Salvador essentials including Parque Central, mercado central and National Library. The guide is really sympathetic and the visit to Boqueron and the Finca for lunch is awesome.

The pre trip communication was great. All my questions were answered timely. Stephanie(I know I am spelling it wrong) was our guide. She was very knowledgeable and shared with us exactly what we were looking for -the history of El Salvador. She was courteous and helped us souvenir shop. We can not say enough good things about her and this company. Carlos the driver was excellent!

We set up a custom two-day tour with EC Tours. We saw Joya de Ceren, Cerro Verde National Park, Lake Coatepeque, and the Ruta de las Flores. It was absolutely wonderful. Our guide, Lisbeth, was really knowledgeable, answered all of our questions, enriched our experience, and was fun to be around. Our driver, Alessandro, was safe and professional. It was easy to set up the tour, too. We highly recommend this company.

Our tour guide was Lisbeth, and she is knowledgeable and very friendly. We learned a lot about the history and culture of El Salvador. Visiting the coffee plantation was our favorite, and the Nuhat Native Indians town filled with the natives works. This full day tour is MUST do and take part of it. We also did a 1/2 day tour in the old business area of SanSalvador and it was fantastic. We will use this company again in the future and ask for Lisbeth to guide us again.

Steve was a great guide and gave us a lot of insight into the history of EL Salvador. The views of the El Boqueron volcano and national park were amazing. Highly recommend.

I had a great time with Steve and Sandra. They’re charming, well informed and made my solo trip feel like a family trip. I recommend this tour to everyone most highly!!

absolutely awesome. Couldnt ask for a better one day tour. Nature, sites, history and weather was 5 stars. Our guide Lisbeth was our shining superstar. Her Sense of humor, knowledge, laugh and entire aura was beautiful! ;) Thank You again Rannar and Sandra

We took the free walking tour of San Salvador with Steve. It was really interesting - we saw many of the main sights in the city centre and learned a lot. Steve was great; very knowledgeable, with plenty of interesting stories. He covered a wide range of subjects and I felt he really wanting to make sure we enjoyed the tour and our visit in El Salvador. He had a very good level of English. I'd really recommend this tour, and particularly to do it right at the beginning of your stay here because its a great introduction to the city and the country.

Very interesting tour of several towns with authentic markets, local food, colorful murals, quality coffee and the nicest people you could ever meet. We also did the Ruta de los Mayas tour as well as the Ruta de los Volcanes. We enjoyed them all. You can’t go wrong with ECTOURSELSALVADOR. They’re a safe, responsible and punctual company. We were take care of by the guide/driver duo of Gerson and Gabriel. They were both great: polite, approachable, caring and knowledgeable. Highly recommended.

We had an amazing time in El Salvador, thanks to EC tours! From the start of tour planning, Vanessa was very attentive in helping organize the tour. Steve was our tour guide for 5 days while we were there and he was very kind, attentive, personable and knowledgeable. He was great with our 8 and 11 year-old kids. He gave excellent recommendations for foods and great stories to illustrate the history and significance of each site. Thank you!

Absolutely beautiful experience. Our tour guide Windy was kind and knowledgeable. The driver was also friendly, showing us his pictures of local activities. The sites were great, not crowded at all. We were paired with local experts at each site.

I booked 4 days trips in El Salvador (plus an additional day in El Salvador) and after that trips in Honduras. The previous organization was very difficult and, in my opinion, not very professional. My contact at EC Tours for planning my trip was Vanessa. Here some examples: Originally I booked some activities in Honduras (after El Salvador. I booked also a shared shuttle from Copan to La Ceiba in Honduras. (I received a confirmation from EC-Tours für this activities as well) and wanted to know if I would be taken directly to the hotel in La Ceiba (due to safety concerns as I was travelling alone). I sent three E-Mails to EC-Tours about this and received no response. Then I found out from my hotel in Copan and from a local agency that there are no shared shuttles. Therefore I decided to cancel the Honduras part completely and looking for other alternatives. I booked private tours fort he El Salvador part and also paid for private tours and received confirmations for that.. One day before the tour, Vanessa told me that there could also be group tours. I told her that I did not agree with this because I had paid for private tours. After some back and forth, I got at least some money back if there were other participants. But it was very stressful for me, I don't like having constantly discussions about things that are taken for granted on vacation. It happened again and again that more money was demanded (although a total price was clearly agreed upon when booking and also confirmed by EC Tours!! For example: I had to pay an additional $25 for the waterfall tour. The explanation was that this was forgotten (even though the tour was confirmed as such!). I had to pay an additional $30 for the Botanical Garden, even though this tour was already confirmed (including the Botanical Garden). The excuse here was that the Honduras part was deleted (although the bookings for El Salvador were never changed!) According to the plan, the tour (San Salvador and El Boqueron) was supposed to run from 08:30 AM - 05:30 PM (=9 hours). I was only picked up at 09:10 AM that day and was back at the hotel by 04:45 PM (=7.5 hours). The botanical garden was on the way (I use Google Maps) and the day tour was 1.5 hours shorter (incl. Botanical Garden), so it's a disgrace to charge another $30 (especially since it was confirmed otherwise!). I complained about that too. At first they said they wouldn't charge me again, but then they charged me anyway. This is definitely not okay! Gerson was my guide on most tours. He was very nice and informative. At the beginning I thought that only the organization was bad, but at least there are good guides in the company On the last day, however, something really bad happened, so I changed my mind here too: That day I joined the 7 Waterfalls hike and the Ruta de Las Flores (also with Gerson). Originally I wanted to do this tour in two different days. However, Vanessa (without asking me) decided to do it in one day and did not inform me that you cannot do everything on the Ruta de Las Flores (which was my main focus)! We started with the hike to the 7 waterfalls, which was supposed to be completed in 5 hours according to the itinerary. There were actually 10 waterfalls in total, but unfortunately Gerson did not intervene here because the other two participants were bathing extensively in each waterfall. I then pointed out several times that the Ruta de Las Flores was still to come. At the end of the route of the 7 Waterfalls, an illegal path was taken, which meant that we had to cross private property and climb over a high barbed wire (!!!). I ruined my trousers (I had to sit on the barbed wire) and I also injured my legs several times. Blood ran down my knees to my feet! I was really shocked and stunned !! And the best thing: no responsibility was taken. Gerson told me that I wanted to get back quickly (because of the Ruta de Las Flores - this is so macabre, we were so late that we didn't have lunch until around 03:30 PM and then did the Ruta de las Flores ). So in the end, I was blamed! I have to say, however, that I didn’t ask for this illegal route, and the guide did not inform us beforehand that we were going to do such a dangerous thing. I would NEVER have agreed to this! The other two participants did not manage to climb over the barbed wire. It was so dangerous and so irresponsible! So I had to pay for the additional transport because the other two participants took another way for going back! There was no apology, no replacement for my broken trousers, and no compensation.for all the injuries. For these reasons: never again! I have travelled a lot, but I have never experienced anything like this and I would never wish it on anyone

WOW! Words cannot describe how our tour guide, Lizbeth, went above and beyond for each tour. We did the walking tour of San Salvador, Santa Ana Volcano Hike, and Ruta de Las Flores. We also added a tour to visit my mom’s home town that she grew up in. Lizbeth not only was so knowledgeable and informative on each tour, but she truly exceeded our expectations of all of these tours. She advocated for my husband and I to see inside the school my mom grew up in and to visit her old house. She also translated for us when we needed helping buying or ordering something. She was so kind and patient and really made us feel so safe when walking around each town. Thanks to her, my husband and I know so much more about our culture and have made us grow to love El Salvador even more!! I highly recommend using EC Tours and requesting Lizbeth… you won’t be disappointed!!