Sunday, October 12

We visited Honduras for only 4 days. Three of those were spent in the village of Copan Ruins. It's a charming little town, with cobblestone streets, nice restaurants and a lot of tourists. The main goal for all those tourists is to visit the ruins of the Maya city Copan. It's the only major Maya site in Honduras, but culturally almost equally important as the major sites of Tikal and Palenque in Mexico and Guatemala. It's famous for its' beautiful stone carved columns and has large pyramids, ballcourts and staircases covered with hieroglyphs. It's clear that once this was a large city with royals and thousands of people.

With the visit to Honduras and these ruins we've "closed the circle" that we started 4 years ago when we first visited Latin America starting with Mexico and Guatemala.

Besides the ruins, we also went horse riding through the beautiful surroundings and visiting a small town. Wednesday night was Salsa night in one of the bars, so Marloes wanted to practice her lessons from Bolivia one more time and even Jeroen had learned the basic steps! But it turned out they only played Salsa music and there was no dancing. We didn't feel like being the first ones to start ;-)

After spending our last night in dark and unsafe Tegucigalpa, we flew to San Francisco the next day. Here we'll spend the last 2 weeks, getting used to modern western life again.