Continuing on the Gringo Trail: Honduras
Saturday, June 16th, 2007Updated: link to photos actually works now.
Thanks for the concern regarding the 6.8 earthquake that hit parts of Guatemala and El Salvador. We had left Guatemala for Honduras and were unaffected. We read in the news that there were no casualities.
After returning to Antigua from Tikal, we loafed around for about a week finding excuses why we needed to stay just one more day. We explored the city, watched a lot of movies that we hadn’t seen this last year, and tried more restaurants.
The number of tourists is noticably picking up as the college crowd flocks down here under the guise of learning Spanish. Katherine (the Australian woman we’ve mentioned before) delayed her departure back down-under for another month. We met up with her again in Antigua. She joined us as we continued on the gringo trail to the Copan Ruins in Honduras.
Copan is just over the border from Guatemala, about 6 hours from Antigua. The ruins are just outside of the town called Copan Ruinas which is a great little town. They say that Tikal is the New York of the Mayan world and Copan is the Paris.
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