You can get to copan and the ruins in a day from roatan.
It is a lovely village also and worth the effort.

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Senor Marcos Written by This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it on 2007-07-21 01:08:41 Conference on Honduras 2007 to be Held in Copan Ruinas By Marco Caceres This will be the 8th consecutive yearprojecthonduras.com puts on the Conference on Honduras( http://www.projecthonduras.com/conference ). Thiswill be 5th consecutive year that we stage the eventin Copan Ruinas, Honduras. We keep returning to Copanbecause we sense that it is the ideal location onplanet Earth for humanitarians and volunteers to meetand exchange information, ideas, stories, and positiveenergy... and brainstorm solutions to problems andways to work together on projects in Honduras. There is a good feeling in this small town. There isgreat space, color, and sound. It is the one place inHonduras (for me, at least) that I can be in and bere-energized to continue the long-term task ofcontributing my time, experience, expertise andtalents to support efforts to empower the people ofHonduras. My friend Flavia Cueva of Hacienda San Lucas hasrecently shared with me some articles written in theWashington Post and the Atlantic Journal-Constitutionabout San Lucas and Copan Ruinas. Those of you whomight be interested, you'll find links to them athttp://www.haciendasanlucas.com under "Recent Press". I think my favorite of these articles is the one bySteve Hendrix of the Post. It's athttp://www.haciendasanlucas.com/washpost.htm I encourage you to read it, particularly if you areplanning to be with us at the Conference on Honduras2007. It should begin to get you in the mood. Some of my favorite quotes (because they pretty muchtransport me) from the piece include... "These red tuk-tuk cabs are the transit water bugs ofCopan , scuttling around town, picking up passengersand depositing them a few blocks away for a handful oflempiras. Sometimes entire families of five or sixwould jam into the three-wheeled carts for a bouncingride over the cobblestones." "That's when I knew we had surrendered to Copan," "Suddenly we found ourselves in that idyllicsmall-town comfort zone of 'The Andy Griffith Show,'" "If Montgomery County were a disease, Copan just mightbe the cure." "Copan is a tight web of streets laid in a crevice ofHonduras 's western highlands. In a lush, flat riverbasin at the foot of the town sit the Copan ruins, thestone remnants of a city that marked the southernmostreach of the Mayan empire from the mid-5th centuryinto the 9th." "A town square anchored the grid of streets down nearthe river, with residential streets leading off thecorners. Heading uphill, one or two houses on everytightly packed block stood out with fresh paint or arecent addition." "Here and there a saddled horse was tied up, stillbeing the preferred conveyance for some of theweathered old men who rode in from the campo forsupplies or to tie on a Sunday drunk. One clopped byas the newbies found their school." "Still, it was very much a tightly packed tropicaltown of 9,000 souls, which meant going to sleep to thesound of the neighbor's bedtime murmuring (andsometimes arguing). And it meant waking with thecrowing of their roosters as the sun washed over theancient Mayan city a few hundred yards away. The slap,slap of tortilla making soon followed, and Elda serveda full breakfast every day, always with tortillas andcereal and rice and fresh juice and some of thesublime local coffee." In the past, I have described the annual Conference toHonduras in Copan as kind of a pilgrimmage, akin tothe way Muslims visit Mecca, Jews visit Jerusalem,Catholics visit Vatican City, Buddhists visit Lhasa,Hindus visit Varanasi, and Elvis fans visit Graceland! Every great movement or religion can probably identifya physical place in the world where their people feela special connection to something greater thanthemselves. projecthonduras.com has identified Copan.Please join us there in October if you can. Feel free to e-mail me at This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it if I cananswer any specific questions for you.

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