This time, as I promised after our resort trip...I was going to go and do something educational! So I did. We went to Copan, Honduras to see the Mayan ruins there.
So Thursday morning at 4:20 am I dragged myself out of bed and went to Zone 10 to get on a shuttle bus. The bus arrived we hopped on and I promptly fell asleep.
After a long and bumpy ride we arrived at the border and then 20 minutes later arroved in the cute little town of Copan. Right when we got off the bus we met Jesus Ramirez. He would, from that moment on, be part of our daily lives (for 3 days). He took us to the hotel and promised to come back to get us in a couple of hours to go horse back riding!
(Jacqui and Brett on the horses, they are new teachers at the school this year from BC)
We rode up to an Hacienda and saw some cocoa plants, coffee plants (both firsts for Jacqui) and a lime tree. At the Hacienda we stopped for a glass of wine. Walter, Jesus' friend who owns the horses, was with us and had some lemonade. He was great and chitchatted with us. Well with me, as the other 2 speak no spanish...so I got to use TONS this weekend :)
The following day Jesus took us up the mountain to some hot springs. The TukTuk ride was ridiculously long and bumpy! When we got there we walked up the jungle like path to see the 11 different baths. The top was the "source" , where the hot water emerges. Jesus was trying to explain how hot it was and as he was telling me this, Brett stuck his whole foot in and burned himself. Aparently, we could have boiled an egg in it , had we wanted to:)
One of the baths.
We also found a GIANT leaf...which we all took turns wearing.
Don't worry..I have a bathing suit on!
Ok. So next day we went to the ruins! (which was kind of the point of the trip!)
We walked to the site...but halfway there, guess who drove by us? JESUS! He picked us up and drove us the rest of the way:)
Once we got to the ruins, we climbed them, read the plagues and climbed some more. I met 2 men vacationing from Bordeaux and chitchatted with them for a while.
On our walk out of the national park type place we found a bunch of Macaws. They are wonderfully colourful parrots which they breed in captivity at the park and then slowly release into the wild (from what I understand).
So you DO talk to strangers!
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