In one of the small royal courts

Copan Ruinas - Mayan heaven!

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July 7th 2006
I missed my bus north from the border at Nuevo Ocotepeque as I didn't realise Honduras was an hour ahead of El Salvador so I went off to do Internet! The bus lady had been really grumpy initially but she started to ask me lots of questions (the usual - how many siblings, are you married, why not? don't you want to be?), the usual answers (well, it's different in London, why? I'm not sure.. it just ... 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