Am writing now as a huge thunderstorm pelts Copan having been ominously brewing all day. Luckily, am dry and swinging in a hammock but hoping it clears up before I have to get some dinner...and pick up my laundry.

Today was my last full day in Honduras and it was a good one. It started up a tree.

I finally managed to do a canopy tour! I've been waiting to do one of these for ages and for whatever reason been in the right place at the wrong time etc and not been able to zip through the canopy tens of metres up a tree.

The tour was effectively private, meaning it was me, and two Hondurans in their twenties, one of them quite attractive, in the middle of the jungle zipping from tree to tree. It was awesome, and whilst extensive deforestation meant it wasn't quite pristine rainforest, the glorious mountain countryside made it thoroughly worth it.

Following that the tour also included entrance to 'Macaw Mountain'. This is a conservation project that looks after Honduras's rescued birdlife. Its a fantastic place, with a host of beautiful birds on display ranging from obviously Macaws to toucans, owls, vultures and parrots. The project has a successful reintroduction programme, meaning macaws are once again flourishing in the valleys of Copan, just like they were back in Mayan days.

After a lunch of enchiladas and another brilliant Honduran beer (definitely wins the prize of best beer in Latin America) I decided to pay a visit to a museum just outside the Copan Ruins.

This was a great call as the museum was spectacular and explained a lot that you miss out just seeing the ruins. The stelae - the big blocks of vertical stone covered in carvings - represent individual rulers/ritualistic ceremony leaders. There were also many carved heads, macaws and Mayan calendars - all very lost world-esque.

Tomorrow, I cross back into neighbouring Guatemala for the last week of this Latin American adventure. I've had a final re-think of my route, meaning I'm heading almost to Belize (although I'm not ticking off another country...!) to see an even bigger, grander ruin...

Vamos!