Copan Ruins

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To get to Copan from San Juan we had 19 hrs of bus journeys and two stopovers in Managua and San Pedro Sula. Copan were our first Mayan ruins of the trip and they were quite awe inspiring. There was a huge grand central staircase in the ruins that looked incredible and there were several big pyramids dotted about. The ruins were surrounded by hundreds of square miles of rainforest, the views from the pyramids were cool. Also in the rainforest we managed to see several Scarlet Macaws. The town of Copan Ruinas was a nice quiet town high up in the jungle. It had narrow sloping cobble streets and nice buildings. We left after one night to head to the Bay Islands. As we left the headline in the paper was "massacre in Copan". We didn't know what it said because we can't read Spanish. Oh well!

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