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Copan Ruins are located in the western part of Republic of Honduras, in the department of Copan. The capital of this Department is the city of Santa Rosa de Copan, formerly known as 'Los Llanos'. Copan is the archeological city located south of the whole geographic area, and it is where the great Mayan Civilization developed and flourished. (The area is 325,000 square kilometers and comprises the southeastern part of Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, and part of El Salvador).
Honduras is one of the 5 poorest countries in the world. Therefore it is not unsafe. People are polite, little begging or husteling tourists except on the north coast (maybe) unlike manny, manny other places.Dont`t forget most people struggle very hard to survive and still treat you like a normal person not trying just to get most money out of you. Thats why negative sides of tourism are still quite unknow.Help that it stays like this !Try to cope and respect people and costumes. Lifing one month with very poor people of Tegucigalpa, you see costumes may be rude but violations is poor, and you have to improve some latin creverness
Yojoa Lake is located between the department of Cortes, Santa Barbara y Comayagua. This natural lake is surrounded by two national parks. There are a lot of activities that can be done here!... You can go and take a trip in boat or rebt a yatch and sail on the lake or go to the Natrional Parks that are located here, the Cerro Azul meambar and Santa Barbara. There you can do birdwatching... there are hundreds of differents species found.... The food ther is delicious, if you visit the Yojoa Lake don't miss a delicious plate of Fish !!!
Copan Ruins is located just about two hours southwest of San Pedro Sula. This Mayans ruins are marvelous. There is a museum in the archeological park, that is surrounded by a green forest. While visiting this ruins you can enter the tunnels and see one of the most recently temples that archeologist had discovered. the Rosalile temple, that is shown in the picture on the left. Walking in the main square on the town of Copan Ruins, which is about 5 minutes away from the Archeological Park, is a nice experience. You can eat a traditional plate of food there, and also do a lot of shopping in the souvenir that are located along the street of this pictoresque town. You can also find a lot of cyberc@fes... and restaurants with a broad variety of food national and international cuisine.
The Beaches in Honduras are beautiful. You have plenty of them, and you can choose the one that fits your adveture spirit. My favorite beach in Honduras is Tela, Atlantida. While being in Honuras you can not miss the oportunity to visit this beach. It is located in the north coast, just around 90 kms east of San Pedro Sula. Mmmm, so many memories, food, beaches, people, what can i say.. is my home country! I like it a lot!
One interesting thing about San Pedro is the sense that it is only half built. From arriving at the airport where we had to be shuttled to the terminal because it wasn't finished, to the roads, many of which seemed to be designated as 4 lane freeways of which only half was built, to the colonies where you had a mix of people living in cardboard shacks and habitat for huminity built cedarblock huts. I can only imagine what it is like after the Hurricane when through in the summer of '99.
Another thing to get used to is the security. I don't remember seeing one single police officer in my two weeks there. But I do remember seeing plenty of Honduran Army on their Jeeps loaded with heavy machine guns. I also noticed that any decent store had a man with an AK-47 or other like gun standing in front of it guarding it. It was a bit different than what I was used to coming from the US.
Dive or snorkle the area near the end of the air strip, there are many coral heads and overhangs in reasonable shallow water. (15 - 25 ft.) Althea Jackson; the lovely lady who runs Sharkie's. She was more than helpful during our stay.
If you go to Honduras, be sure to visit the islands of Roatan and Guanaja. Roatan is a richly historical island with spectacular diving. It was once a pirate island and today still has some remnants of that past.I travel there almost every year. Excellent diving at Fantasy Island and AKR. Also, dolphin shows at AKR.Honduras is a country in the midst of being built. Like many and most of the countries in Central America, it is growing and modernizing. However, changes are slow in coming, and not the most efficient. Another VT member noted how San Pedro Sula, one of the larger cities in the country, seems half-finished. Not to quote directly. I wold have to agree with that, though in the many years of travel, I look at it from a different point of view. As I said above, Honduras, and therefore San Pedro are in the stages of building and modernizing. Note that the San Pedro airport has been...
Take the public transportation (old school bus) to one of the villages. The ride will be long, hot and very bumpy, but well worth it. You must also go to the Mayan Indian Ruins. As we were leaving the village a young boy that had became very special to me was running barefoot behind the bus, waving as hard as he could. This just broke my heart because I would loved to have been able to bring him home with me to the States.
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Q: Ok, my husband, grown son and I are traveling to Honduras and now, after reading state Dept. warnings I am terrified.We plan on...
A: Just be friendly and watch your suroundings like any other place you've never been. My daughter's been there twice with Medical Brigade and travelled to some very remote...
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