Team Equipt's "Expedition Mundo Maya"
We made it to Honduras finally after waiting quite a few hours for 10 minutes worth of paper work! Honduras should think about getting a copy machine in their own country instead of making you walk back to Guatemala every time you need more.:sombrero: Overall a very good experience at the border it just took forever! We stayed in the town of Copan Ruins and took a tuktuk ride to the ruins. The carvings here and being able to do the archeological tunnels underneath are really worth the drive down here. There are actually over 4KM of tunnels that they have dug to study earlier stages of Copan civilization.
The ball court is the second largest to be found in central america. It also has carved heads on the top of it on both sides like I've never seen at any ruins before.
The Stellas and carving here are incredibly detailed.
Alternate view.
The Hieroglyphic Stairway is the most famous of Copan's monuments. It has 63 steps and several thousand glyphs tell the history of the royal house of Copan and is the longest known text of ancient mayan civilization.
The steps are not in the original order so they cannot be totally deciphered.
An overview of one of the courtyards that leads to the jaguar tunnel.
There are 4KM's of tunnels under the ruins that show how ancient civilizations here at Copan built right on top of one another.
Paul May is a little too tall for most of the tunnels, but made it O.K.
Another image from down inside the tunnels.
Once again the details all over this site are out of a sic-fi novel.
