Last day in Copan so I had to get the tick in the box and visit the Mayan ruins at the edge of town. Poor little Liz cannot walk so it was just me. Walking down the first thing that grabs you is how beautiful the countryside is. This formed a nice backdrop to getting sneaky pictures of the local men in their distinctive white broad rimed hats. Tikal has the big Mayan structures, but Copan Ruias is the prime location for Mayan sculptures. Even before I got to th...

The day was very cloudy so we decided to wait until tomorrow for seeing the ruins. The gap was partly filled by taking the longer route back from eating at Via Via. Copan like everywhere else in Central America has pavements that would not be out of place on an assult course. Most people here don't use them unless of course there is a car breathing down your neck. Copan roads however are cobbled but not with uniform cobble stones like you see in Europe, here th...

We were still down about Emily so we postponed a trip to the Mayan Ruins. The day has been spent looking around pretty Copan. The evening had mixed emotions. We decided to avoid the usual Via Via despite it possibly having the best inexpensive food after Vanuatu (eating there every day did not seem right). Instead we gravitated to a very nice looking place called Twisted Tanya (if the owner was Tanya then it lived up to it's name). Somehow we went with the flo...

Goodbye Guatemala hello Honduras! We arranged for a shuttle to take us to Copan in Honduras - Liz enjoys the relative luxury of these. However when we got to the meeting place all we could see was this very knackered mini bus, giving us the initial feeling that today could be more eventful than anticipated. Just out of sight was the real one that had luxurious seats. Good roads through beautiful coffee growing countryside lay ahead. Liz was beaming, well at leas...