Ataco is a small town and the home to some talented artisans who have painted bright murals throughout town (see the pictures). We walked around the city, did some shopping and during a coffee tour we learned how coffee is made. Apparently, some of the worlds best coffee is from the region around Ataco.
A coffee bean is actually a seed of a plant and looks like a cherrie. When dried, roasted and ground, it is used to brew coffee.
In the evening we went out for dinner and the weather seemed to be up to something. After reaching the typical Pupusa Restaurant, the heavy rain started and a few power failures happened until the lights didn’t turn on again and we waited with candle light in the restaurant for 1 hour but nothing changed. The whole city was pitch black. A Salvadorian boy felt pitty towards us and he told his mother: “ Mummy how would you feel being in a foreign country walking home in the rain and dark”. Therefore the nice mother offered us a ride back to the hotel. Pupusa is a traditional Salvadoran dish made of a thick, handmade corn tortilla that is usually filled with everything you like e.g. spinach, cheese, chicken etc.
Bright murals throughout town
Our Hotel in a nearly 360 degree view 
Coffee tour
Fields where the coffee is dried
This is an optional process in which any silver skin that remains on the beans after hulling is removed in a polishing machine
The woman remove the defective beans by hand while the beans move along an electronic conveyor belt
People working in the fields
A storm is brewing
Romantic dinner by candlelight