Tree with Vines

Copán Ruinas

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August 28th 2007
After five weeks of Spanish school our brains fell out of our heads and we walked around incoherently mumbling for a good six hours. The local authorities were kind enough to escort us home where we decided it was time for a vacation. We headed east to Honduras for two weeks of relaxation. Our first stop in Honduras was Copán Ruinas. It is a quite town just 10 km across the boarder from Guatemala ... read more

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Once part of Spain's vast empire in the New World, Honduras became an independent nation in 1821. After two and a half decades of mostly military rule, a freely elected civilian government came to power in 1982. During the 1980s, Honduras proved a ha... ... read more