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The ruins at Copan are probably the best, and largest, I have seen. This site was about a kilometre from town and the only one we had time to see. It was well maintained, and so clean... take a look at the broom this guy is using. Several trees at the entrance to the park had metal around the bottoms and big "drums" at the top. This is protected nests for macaws.  As we were leaving the park, there were squawking macaws all over the place. As you can see the nests are being used. Pretty birds, but man, are they noisy. This is just going to be a bunch of pictures of the ruins in no particular order.... so much history, so many stories, but just pictures today. Our guide was very knowledgeable and by the time we left the park my brain was overflowing. It is hard to describe the size of this site. Our tour lasted about 3 hours and we barely stopped walking the entire time. So much de...

This is our third year coming to The Bay Island of Roatan,  and we had never been to the mainland. Our first trip off the island to rio Cangrejal was a wonderful experience.... this time we decided to go a little further afield....to Copan Ruinas Our flight left Roatan at 6:30 AM. (we might have been the only people at the airport) and 45 minutes later we were in San Pedro Sula, the closest airport to Copan. Then a four hour bus ride. There is a bus terminal at the airport, however as Daryl and I were the only people waiting, we were sent by taxi to the main terminal, about a half hour away. The bus did not leave until noonish.... It was a big greyhound style bus. We purchased first class tickets (a reclining seat), but the bus over sold so we got to sit in a regular seat which was just fine. Finally at 4:30 PM we arrived in Copan. Tri-moto is the taxi of choice and those little vehicles can sure whip around. The bed and breakfast was lovely. The gr...

Camp Bay Beach Well, let me say first of all that I deleted this original post in error.... so here's to re-creation. Daryl and I had never made it to the far end of the island. As our time on Roatan is whipping by, it was time to go exploring again. We got in the car and drove to the end of the road....almost. ...the last eight miles or so were a dirt road, and then it became a track. The scenery was absolutely spectacular. We turned around and went back to Camp Bay Lodge. The lodge was rustic for sure. The food was good! There were a few other people there but not many. The lady who owns it.... I think.... is from Canada. She said they spend six months in Canada and six at the lodge. They have two small children. The young lad goes to a local school. Mom is French, dad is German, they speak English at home and the school is Spanish. Quite the variety. We didn't swim as it started to rain, besides the water dropp...