Town of Copan Ruinas

Bienvenidos a Copan Ruinas	The Rotary Club also welcomes you to Copan Ruinas	Asian tuktuks have taken hold in Honduras	Honduras License Plate
La Cañada Hotel, Copan Ruinas	Hotel La Cañada, Copan Ruinas	Hotel La Cañada, Copan Ruinas	Spanish colonial architecture, Copan Ruinas, Honduras
Copan Ruinas Town Center - Calle de la Plaza	Tourist shuttle prices, Copan Ruinas	Honduras - Todo está aqui	Republica de Honduras Libra, Soberana e Independente, 15 de Septiembre de 1821
Calle 18 Conejo, Copan Ruinas	Banco de Occidente, Copan Ruinas	Banco de Occidente, Copan Ruinas	HondurasJan12 064.jpg
Parque Central & Church, Copan Ruinas	Old Church, Parque Central, Copan Ruinas	Parque Central & Church, Copan Ruinas	Parque Central & Church, Copan Ruinas
Parque Central & Church, Copan Ruinas	The old church of Copan Ruinas	Interior of the old church, Copan Ruinas	Parque Central, Copan Ruinas
Parque Central, Copan Ruinas	Palacio Municipal, Copan Ruinas	Restaurante Los Arcos, Parque Central, Copan	Ave. Copan, Copan Ruinas
Ave. Copan, Copan Ruinas	A small nameless bar, Ave. Copan	Roadsigns for the Guatemalan border and Copan Airport	Hedman-Alas Bus Station, Copan Ruinas
Hedman-Alas, since 1953	A little snack bar near the bus station	Well-endowned Mayan flying demon	Reproduction of a stele at a Copan Ruinas hotel
Pool of a nice hotel near the bus station	Honduran beer - Port Royal Export	The town is small and soon you're among the green fields and trees	Minor nameless ruins on the side of the road
Honduras Tourism brought to you by Credomatic	Junction - Copan Ruinas/La Entrada	Frontera Guatemala 12 km	12 km from Copan to Guatemala
Tropical tree, Honduras	Mural at the entrance to the city, Honduras	Mural detail, Copan Ruinas	Mural detail, Copan Ruinas
Las Sepulturas - an ancient Mayan suburb of Copan	A yellow Honduran license plate	La Casa de Todo Restaurant - Copan Ruinas (free internet)	A hilly cobblestoned street in the old town, Copan Ruinas
Sturdy colonial architecture, Copan Ruinas	Copan Ruinas, Honduras	Hotel Graditas Mayas, Copan Ruinas	Airy green balcony on an old house, Copan Ruinas
Barrio El Centro, Copan Ruinas	A walk from the town center to the upper district, Copan Ruinas	I felt perfectly save in Copan, even with my big camera hanging around my neck	Upper town, Copan Ruinas
Upper town, Copan Ruinas	Calle Yaruga runs east-west through the upper town	An old pickup, Calle Yaruga, Copan Ruinas	The town is very clean, even outside of the tourist areas
Someone's pants don't quite fit yet	Feeding the chickens	El Cuartel, the small hilltop fort overlooking Copan Ruinas	El Cuartel, Copan Ruinas
El Cuartel - Fuerte Jose Trinidad Cabañas" - Copan Ruinas	Panoramic photo of the old fort, Copan Ruinas	El Cuartel, Copan Ruinas	View from El Cuartel, Copan Ruinas
There's a new museum inside El Cuartel	There's a new museum inside El Cuartel	Tile map of Central America marking out major Mayan sites, El Cuartel	Artist's impression of the Mayan city of Copan in its glory days
The old church from the old fort, Copan Ruinas	The old church from the old fort, Copan Ruinas	El Cuartel - Fuerte Jose Trinidad Cabañas" - Copan Ruinas	Templo Evangelico Amigos, Copan Ruinas
Major erosion to a street on the steep hillside of the upper town, Copan Ruinas	Interesting pure water distribution system, Copan Ruinas	Friendly kids in the town of Copan Ruinas, Honduras	Some of them would surely pass for Filipino
Late afternoon, Copan Ruinas	Federación Hondureña de Full Contact Amatuer - Escuela K'Amalb'e Copán	The very pleasant town of Copan Ruinas, Honduras	La Casa de Jade, Copan
Modern reproduction of a Mayan Jade mask	Mural, Copan Ruinas, Honduras	Back at the Plaza Mayor, sorry, Parque Central	Parque Central, late afternoon
Old church of Copan Ruinas, late afternoon	Parque Central, late afternoon	El banco está cerrado	Sunset over a cobble stone street of Copan Ruinas
HondurasJan12 192.jpg	HondurasJan12 195.jpg	HondurasJan12 197.jpg	Just what I was looking for - a balcony with a sunset view, cold beer and free internet - Twisted Tanya's in Copan Ruinas
Cerveza Imperial on the patio of Twisted Tanya's	The other Honduran beer, Port Royal Export	Life is good - Twisted Tanya's, Copan Ruinas, Honduras	Night falls, Twisted Tanya's
I've got to find out more about that thing	Good night, Copan Ruinas	Thankfully, much of the town center in Copan Ruinas is geared towards the locals rather than all tourist trinket shops	Hotel Camino Maya, Copan Ruinas, Honduras
After a full day of touring the ancient ruins of Copan, back on the terrace of Twisted Tanya's	Chatting with other travelers directs me here - Sol de Copan	I whole-heartedly recommend Sol de Copan, a tiny German brewery and restaurant in Copan Ruinas	Sol de Copan, a great place to meet travelers and locals over a fine microbrewed German-style beer
Sol de Copan's wonderful dark beer (no, it's not Paulaner...just the glass)	Thomas, the German owner and brewer of Sol de Copan, runs a fine establishment together with his Honduran wife	A little backwards - Bienvenidos a Honduras - as I'm leaving for Guatemala	Can't aim, o well....
The tourist shuttle bus to Guatemala