We had a great two nights at Antigua in Guatemala, and then headed out towards Honduras with the hopes of making it close to the border. The highways were better than anticipated, and after being lost in Guatemala City for only a little while, we found ourselves at the border at 2pm. We decided to cross so we could spend a full day at the ruins at Copan Ruinas, some of the best Mayan ruins around.
The border crossing went very well after the guy doing the paperwork finally showed up. After waiting for about 15 to 20 minutes, we got the necessary forms stamped for the car then proceeded to get our passports stamped at the next building. After that we moved over two windows to get the Honduran side to let us in by stamping our passports and filling out another form. Lastly we went to the final building to get our car into Honduras, where there was an English speaking Hondurite who helped us greatly. All together it took just under an hour and we were on our way, 10km in to Copan, next to the ruins.
Apparently other locations have much larger buildings, but this site is one of the best collections of hieroglyphs to be found. We opted not to take the walking tour because neither of us really cared about the history that much, and just walked around and took pictures. It was pretty fascinated to see all the carvings and buildings, but the most interesting thing for us was the group of macaws that we encountered near the entrance, and a bunch of small mammals that looked like half rodent and half deer. Denielle wasn’t too impressed with the tarantula that I found in one of the holes in the ruins.
Its new year’s eve tonight and our plans so far only involve eating out at some place with internet to update the blog and let everyone know that we’re still alive.
Tyler.
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