Our Trip to Copan Ruinas, Honduras

 

Last September we took a trip to Copan Ruinas, Honduras for two days.  We left early on Tuesday.

  This is the group of us ready to go.

  This is the town square in Copan Ruinas.  The trip took much longer than planned so we spent the late afternoon enjoying the city center.

This is a map of the ruins that have been uncovered in Copan

This is one of the beautiful macaws, what they call guacamaya, that are all over the park.

Here we are with the water god.

We took lots of pictures - so this is just a sample of the pictures of the ruins.  It was amazing.

This is the crocodile that was submerged in water in the olden times.

This is where the king and his family lived.

Where the king used to address the upper class of society on special occasions.

In front of a ginormous tree.

This is called a Stella, a representation of one of the most famous and popular kings - 18 rabbits.  There are about a dozen of these in the public gathering area showing him in different roles.

The back side of the ball field (visitor side) as seen from the top of one of the other structures.

The ball field, showing the front side of the visitor's side of the field.

This was inside the museum and shows the original colors of the temple

This was actually one of the original temples that was covered over by later temples - twice.

El Viejo con El Viejito.

Juayua Falls

 At the end of August we travelled to Juayua to go to the Juayua Falls.  This is at the entrance of the city of Juayua

 We parked our car and walked down to the falls - about a half hour walk

 This is where we crossed one of the falls

 A couple of the critters we saw along the way

 The beautiful flowers

 After leaving the falls we went over to Laugua Verde.  It took us about 10 minutes to get Apaneca to the 4K road that then went to the lagoon.  It was a terrible road - one place Rich had to get out and move rocks around so we could get through. 

Here is a interesting mode of travel.