At the Copán Maya site, Honduras - 11 April 2007

April 10th I took the chickenbus from Rio Dulce to Copán. A long journey of over 7 hours... See the map below for the route. The goal: Copán. Confusingly the town near the ancient Maya site of Copán is called Copán Ruínas and the site itself only Copán.

April the 11th I visited the ruins of Copán. Really excellent. And hot. So many temples, stellae, statues, carved hieroglyphs. The Maya's did know how to build. No sheep depicted in the stones somehow.

To see where these photo's were taken exactly, have a look at the interactive map and zoom in and out for a better overview.

The map of the travel from Rio Dulce (Guatemala) to Copán (Honduras)

Legend:
Red = travel by bus
Green = travel by boat
Pink = travel by plane
Yellow = Daytrip / excursion (by bus or car)
Yellow with green dotting = Daytrip / excursion by boat

With a macaw at the entrance

At the entrance of the ruins, there were some beautiful macaws sitting at the fence. They were a bit scared to be near me. I guess they've never seen a cuddly sheep before...
The Dutch call a macaw 'ara'.

With some stone monkeys

Too much to see out there at this archeological site. Hieroglyphs, sculptures, temples. These stone monkey faces were put on a temple.

At a court and temple

Copán consists of several courts, with lots of temples. This is one of those temples.