Copan
December 7th, 2007
A month break and we are back to exploring indigenous sites where time left almost no stone unturned. It is home to the longest Maya text found yet carved into the steps of a very tall and wide staircase. Unfortunately, the “manuscript” was found in pieces all over the place and some blocks badly eroded, so the text is jumbled and its full meaning is unknown. Following the usual border formalities where we were told by uniformed officials that we must “just leave with them” the customs fees for the car, since it’s the weekend, and they will file them with the bank “for us” on the next business day, we, frustrated but tolerant as usual after such blunt scamming attempts, just paid whatever they could logically enough get away with, and proceeded for the ruins of Copan. Now in Honduras, we were warned by Don Salvador about police checkpoints and the unavoidable bribe or two, but to our surprise it never came to that. We did get stopped something like eight times in three days, but in contrast to the border fees, it was a small price to pay.
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