We slept in today and went for a great tipico breakfast outside on the patio. Tipico breakfasts usually include coffee, plantains, eggs, beans, tortillas, avocado and sometimes rice or fruit. It’s very filling and very good. Afterwards we wanted to do some shopping around town for souvenirs. Gracias has some things you can buy, but it’s not really a tourist town. There were more artsy can crafty things here, so we spent time on the streets looking at jewelry, pottery, clothes, and other artisan crafts. Those of us who like coffee got some good iced coffee before we walked to the ruins.
The Copan ruins are Mayan ruins on the border of Guatemala and Honduras and are beautiful. We can walk all around the main plaza part of it and they have these large pyramids right as you walk in. They also have tall statues and altars where they made sacrifices, often human I believe. Its kinda weird and sad to realize that actually happened in that place. The ruins have such a stillness to them; it was very quiet when we went in the later afternoon. There was the main plaza and stairways and then behind it was a place where they played some form of football so they had a stadium of sorts and then behind that was the residential quarters. We took lots of pics, which I will put up slowly and surely, internet permitting. We just enjoyed our time there and then walked back, chilled, and got ready for dinner.
We went for dinner at pizza place, which turned out to be the best pizza I’ve had in Honduras yet. It was owned by a gringo and had TV with baseball and football (Yankees and Giants vs Cardinals)so we got to watch that too. We were craving dessert again (any chance we get to indulge we do) and looked around town, but it was getting late, so we just headed to ViaVias. ViaVias is a great place to find other info about Copan and has great food as well. We got brownies and had some great girl talk and then headed back to hostel.
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