Hi guys! I'm writing today from sunny Honduras, rated as the most dangerous country in Central America. Actually it seems really nice to me from where I'm looking at it and I heard all the same stuff about Guatemala and and it was really nice too. So, after I traveled to Antigua yesterday afternoon, I got up at 4 this morning to catch the van to Copan Ruinas in Honduras. Copan Runias is a tiny town built next to Copan, which is a very nice set of mayan ruins out in the jungle. The town is about half a mile across and has a lot of great flowers, cobbled streets, and very short residents. The town square is a veritable garden of eden and a lot of really cool shops and restaurants are built around it.
After meeting up with a Canadian named Steve on the van ride out, we checked into a hostel together and hiked out of town towards the ruins. We got a little lost on the way out there but eventually found some of the most impressive mayan ruins around. Its not as large as the ones at Tikal but its got the best set of carvings and statues in the new world. Some of them are still out in the open like the macaw heads in the ball court seen in the picture here. Behind that is the 'stairway of hyrogliphs' covered up with a roof. Its got a huge set of starts that are covered with writing and record the history of the place. Unfortunately some of it got jumbled when part of it collapsed but the generally we've got the story straight. The rest of the statues can be found in the museum nearby.
Inside the museum is a recreation of the some part of the temple with fresh pait on it, and some petty damn detailed stone reliefs and stelae which are like carved pillars with huge depictions of the king, mostly a guy named '18 Rabbit' at this site. After tiring of that stuff we headed back to the hostel so I could clean up after sweating a couple pints in the jungle and now I'm off to have some shishkebabs with some more people I met at the hostel. Tomorrow I'm catching a bus at 5AM to get to the capital of Honduras, which I can neither remember or pronounce, and then I'm catching the Tika bus to the capital ofNicaragua... wherever that is. Hopefully I can get all that done in one day and start to spend some slow and fun time in Nicaragua. ttyl
Hi guys! I'm writing today from sunny Honduras, rated as the most dangerous country in Central America. Actually it seems really nice to me from where I'm looking at it and I heard all the same stuff about Guatemala and and it was really nice too. So, after I traveled to Antigua yesterday afternoon, I got up at 4 this morning to catch the van to Copan Ruinas in Honduras. Copan Runias is a tiny town built next to Copan, which is a very nice set of mayan ruins out in the jungle. The town is about half a mile across and has a lot of great flowers, cobbled streets, and very short residents. The town square is a veritable garden of eden and a lot of really cool shops and restaurants are built around it.
After meeting up with a Canadian named Steve on the van ride out, we checked into a hostel together and hiked out of town towards the ruins. We got a little lost on the way out there but eventually found some of the most impressive mayan ruins around. Its not as large as the ones at Tikal but its got the best set of carvings and statues in the new world. Some of them are still out in the open like the macaw heads in the ball court seen in the picture here. Behind that is the 'stairway of hyrogliphs' covered up with a roof. Its got a huge set of starts that are covered with writing and record the history of the place. Unfortunately some of it got jumbled when part of it collapsed but the generally we've got the story straight. The rest of the statues can be found in the museum nearby.
Inside the museum is a recreation of the some part of the temple with fresh pait on it, and some petty damn detailed stone reliefs and stelae which are like carved pillars with huge depictions of the king, mostly a guy named '18 Rabbit' at this site. After tiring of that stuff we headed back to the hostel so I could clean up after sweating a couple pints in the jungle and now I'm off to have some shishkebabs with some more people I met at the hostel. Tomorrow I'm catching a bus at 5AM to get to the capital of Honduras, which I can neither remember or pronounce, and then I'm catching the Tika bus to the capital ofNicaragua... wherever that is. Hopefully I can get all that done in one day and start to spend some slow and fun time in Nicaragua. ttyl
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