Views from coach: San Pedro Sula - Copan
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More views from the bus
This is typical of a lot of the countryside we saw - green, lush and...
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Hacienda San Lucas
We were lucky to stay in one of only two guestrooms in the 100 year...
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Our 'back porch'
The back door of our bedroom opened onto this private terrasse, which...
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Cook Miguela making tortillas
I tried to help her but the results were pretty disastrous!
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Paulina preparing our breakfast
Watermelon, mangos, papaya, bananas...and that was just the first course...
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Great kitchen!
As you can see, the kitchen has probaby changed little over the years....
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Saddles
We got more closely acquainted with these saddles later that day....
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Anna...
...looking understandably smug in front of our room.
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Breakfast
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Ready to tuck in
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Ranchero
This guy passed us out with his two horses on our walk into town.
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Mayan music
Gilli experiments with Mayan musical instruments at the Casa Kinich...
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Hammocks
The museum is also surrounded by giftshops where you can buy coffee, cigars,...
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Macaw Mountain Bird Sanctuary
We visited this bird sanctuary just outside the town and saw some spectacular...
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Scarlet Macaw :national bird of Honduras
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Toucan
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Swimming pool
Anna and I braved the chill of this freshwater pool within the bird...
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Eyeing each other warily...
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Two fine-looking birds
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Anna's bracelet in danger...
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Main square in Copan Ruins
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Church
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Heading back up to San Lucas
We hitched a ride with Flavia in her pick-up - the hacienda is perched on the...
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Primary school
Our guide Santiago pointed out this primary school on our pony trek up the...
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...watched by two tiny little girls
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The three amigas!
With our trusty steeds, Georgia, Estrella and ???. Check out the size of my...
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Our excellent guide Santiago
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Worth the climb...
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Back at the ranch...
...with instructions from Santiago to have a bath and a beer. I reckon...
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Our Irish bar moves to San Lucas...
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Original bread oven at San Lucas
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Those views....
The line of huts you see in the distance were for drying tobacco -...
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Ahem
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Chillin' with a well-deserved drink
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Picking flowers outside our room
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And there they are...
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The gardens at San Lucas
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Enjoying breakfast and the view
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Garden
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Stele in the Copan Ruins
You can still see the original red colour - I think they used sap from...
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Copan Ruins
View of the main plaza with the pelota alley bottom left.
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Our guide Juan Carlos
..points out the features of one of the stelae, carved from a single block of...
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The hieroglyphic staircase
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A Ceiba tree
The national tree of Guatemala, roots that go on forever...beautiful.
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Copan as it was
This is what the city would have looked like to the poorer Mayans living in...
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Taxi!
A frankly scary way to get around.
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Butterfly House
This was a nice way to spend an hour - to be honest the introduction to...
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An owl moth (Anna's favourite)
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Exotic plant
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Los Sapos (The toads)
This is an archaelogical site within the grounds of San Lucas.
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Our bill
We kept our own running tab - at the bottom: '3 caballos'.
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Last evening in San Lucas
Enjoying the sunset, the cool beer, the comfy hammock and the very...
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Me and my hammock
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Me, Anna, Flavia and Gilli
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So long San Lucas
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Reading the papers over breakfast
Last morning in Honduras, with our friend and Honduras guide Sarah in...
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Adios...hasta la proxima
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North America
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