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- Tegucigalpa
- Capital
- Lempira (HNL)
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- 6,406,052
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Copan Slideshow
Copan
Travel Blogs from Copan, Honduras
Copan Ruins
Ok so yesterday was filled with a gruelling 6 1/2 hour ride from Antigua which started at 4am in the morning. The border crossing was abit of free for all as there was no lines and someone handing out forms who seems to have his side business of ...
Midway Point
Well whirlwind. I travelled from the colonial cobblestones in Antiqua to honduras already. The City of Antigua is very touristy, but beautiful and very lively. Not alot of tradianal dress and there is lots of tour companies. I am travelling with Paul, ...
Bus day numéro uno
Hi Everyone Just a short entry about the trip from Tikal to Copán Ruinas in Honduras. The country is amazingly beautiful but out of the countries I´ve been to thus far, it is way underdeveloped and in need of some serious sanitation services. Copán ...
Copan Day 1
... late start and didn't hit the border until 830pm. But because of the hour it was also quite tranquil which was nice. I had been to Copan so I lead some people to a hostel then went out and got some street food. Called it an early night. Just had to ...
$2 haircut and other things
... I´d have had shot in Colombia are best of breed at Crufts compared to the skeletal ruins in El Salvador. Paid another $3 to enter Honduras again, wish I thought it was worth the money. It will be fine, I just got off to a bad start and Jon´s ...
Mayan Sculptures and Art Work
... to pay. Found out then that the two immigration offices were next to each other but where the border is guatemala on the left, Honduras on the right the offices are the other way around. Jumped into a minibus, which was once again jam packed, to reach ...
2 Grenzen und 7 Busse in einem Tag
... sieben Busse - und wir mussten nie mehr als 5 Minuten auf den Weitertransport warten. Die Comic Book Pyramiden von Copan haben es JayJay angetan - noch Wochen spaeter moechte er die Geschichte vom Joel und den Bilderbuchpyramiden erzaehlt bekommen. ...
Into the Honduran mountain ranges
... an awesome diving experience it was time to head inland and do some hiking. My first stop the largest Mayan ruins in Honduras. The Copan Ruins set near a small colonial mtn town, with cobbled streets. The ruins were set in the middle of a forest reserve ...
Copán
... . Anyhow...after a bit she calmed down and found another bus that would take us. We travelled for quite some time and arrived around 6 pm in Copan. The next day on August 18th we went to the Copan ruins. We had a guide with us to tell us a lot of the ...
Typical Dayzz and Mayan Times
... that here. On the big screen was the Honduras game and on the small screen was the U.S. match. With 30 seconds left Honduras was winning 2-0, but none of that mattered because the U.S. was losing 2-1. Suddenly, the U.S. scored! The entire restaurant ...
History Lesson
Despite paying outrageous prices to enter the Copan Ruins, it was pretty much the coolest thing we´ve seen yet. We paid $22 each to get in as foreign tourists; whereas Central Americans pay only $4. Anyways, enough ranting about how much we ...
Quiet colonial towns - Santa Rosa & Gracias
I´ve spent a couple of days in the small colonial towns of Western Honduras , Santa Rosa and Gracias. They have been pleasant and interesting enough but I would say without anything really memorable or exciting to write about. I have found out pretty ...
68 Hours In Honduras
... . Happy days.... I turns out I had exactly enough to get through and thought that would be fine I could get some more in Copan, Honduras. We approached Copan as dakness fell. When arriving in the town it didn´t get any brighter, strange. The ...
A long weekend in Copan
... , on the shelf, chickens in a box! It really was a chicken bus! At la entrada, we transferred to a nicer bus, which took us to Copan Ruinas. At Ł4 for the journey, it was a bit of a bargain. We found a cheap hotel for $5 pn… no hot water, but the ...
Just a Flying Visit
We only spent a few days in Honduras and stayed in this Frontier type town called Copan. All the guys wore huge Stetson style hats and cowboy shirts. Almost everyone I saw had a machete in their hand and by the banks, private Security guards were armed ...
Beware the dogs of Copan
... day Honduras. Back to the future we go and if it is Valentines Day it must be 13 hours of travel from the ruins of Copan in Honduras to Roatan. The day begins at 4pm as the alarm beeps me awake and I descend from the tallest bunk bed known to ...
Backpacking
... 2 days chilling and illing, saying our goodbyes to our house mum and her crazy pets and nearly missing our 4am bus to Copan, Honduras. After 7 hours on a minibus we arrived in Copan, famous for it´s Mayan Ruins which we duly visited. Our guide, Saul, a ...
Welcome to Honduras
... has to do with keeping busy and giving them a reason to employ so many people. We all need jobs nowadays, right? Our first official stop in Honduras was the city of Santa Rosa de Copan. We really just roamed around town getting a feel for it. ...
The journey is the reward
... 't even want to be! Ed and I were pretty scared recently when a two-day bus journey left us in the capital of Honduras - Tegucigalpa. According to our guide book, this is the most dangerous capital city in Central America, and tourists shouldn't ...
Honduras revised
... of Santa Rosa de Copan) it doesn´t. Coming down with a cold probably didn´t improve my receptiveness. I´m now in Copan Ruinas for the Mayan remains. It´s Gringoland; thai green curry, happy hours, cheaper hotels and of course the ruins, ...
Copan - Honduras
Copan Ruins We left early again for Copan , to find that there was a protest by teachers near the Honduras boarder so we had to hop on to another bus after walking the 300m past the blockade . It was all confusing but it was either paying more for the new ...
A country town and Mayan Ruins...
... large central pyramid stood in the middle of the grounds it was a real site to see. The thing that stands out at Copan is the beautifully carved stelas (stone tablets). Away from the central pyramid the other stand out feature was a great stone staircase ...
Copan Honduras
left Antigua at four this morning and headed to Honduras at the boarder i had to pay three dollars to cross on a three day pass but they did not stamp my passport arrived in Copan village at ten and went to the ruins at twelve Copan ruins are small but ...
Horses and Ruins
The journey across the boarder to Honduras was nothing to write home about (hee hee... see what I did there?) It took about 7 hours and we didn't quite make it as far as we wanted to, so we had to spend a night in a town called Santa Rosa de Copan. It was ...
Van Costa Rica naar Honduras
... een internationale Ticabus naar Honduras te vertrekken. Om vijf uur 's ochtends vertrokken we richting Tegucigalpa, de hoofdstad van Honduras. De grensformaliteiten werden afgehandeld door het personeel van de bus, wat ons een hoop gedoe en tijd ...
Departure
... nbsp; Mary Anne´s guest house was more than we could have imagined, but I wondered if our next bed in Honduras would be a harsh awakening. I still remember the state of my back after continuous nights on very hard and lumpy mattresses. ...
MOT MOT
CAME DOWN TO LOVELY COPAN THIS MORNING. I LOVE EARLY MORNING BUSSES THRU THE MOUNTAINS. ANYWAY WENT TO THE RUINS. THEY WERE QUITE IMPRESSIVE BUT AS USUAL I GOT SIDE TRACKED BY THE WILDLIFE. I ENDED UP CHASING BIRDS THRU THE WOODS ...
Mayan Ruins at Copan
... with us. Many panicked phone calls later we were fortunate enough to track them down, on the Roatan ferry. The ruins of Copan are close to town, and we had a really funny guide who described himself as a retired rock and roll star. He ...
A Day with Paul and the Reclaiming of our Stuff
... friend from Ocotepeque, Paul. He has recently been promoted within the Peace Corps to being in charge of the western part of Honduras. He moved to the bigger city of Santa Rosa for the more centralized location - and possibly for the sweet apartment he ...