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1000places > COPAN, HONDURAS - The Maya built their city on the banks of the Copan River. But over time, the river changed it course to gnaw at the east side of the Acropolis. Long before John Lloyd Stephens came upon the site, the river had swept away several buildings and washed away thousands of tons of stone, leaving exposed a vertical cut 185 feet in height. As Tatiana Proskouriakoff, one of the great Maya archaeologists, wrote: "Seen thus in section, ancient plaza floors and the remains of partially dismantled walls, covered by layer upon layer of later construction, testify to untold centuries of human effort."
1000places > COPAN, HONDURAS - The end of a great day of exploration, we sat on the hillside of the Hacienda San Lucas watching the flickering lights of the Copan Ruinas village.
1000places > COPAN, HONDURAS - Everyone agreed that there was no better place to end our day at Copan than at the Hacienda San Lucas. Claudine, here wishing good evening to our excellent tour guide Jorge, seemed to have an especially good time.
1000places > COPAN, HONDURAS - As we sat on the hilltop watching the sun set over the Rio Copan valley, we realized that we must have been on the property that once belonged to Don Gregorio, the 19th century land baron who attempted to thwart John Lloyd Stephens' attempt to find the Copan ruins.
1000places > COPAN, HONDURAS - There, in the distance, across the river from the Hacienda San Lucas, we could see what Stephens might have first glimpsed in 1839 - the ancient Copan ruins of the Maya.
1000places > COPAN, HONDURAS - The evening we were in Copan we traveled up the mountain for dinner at the Hacienda San Lucas, owned by Flavia Cueva, a woman of seemingly perpetual motion.
1000places > COPAN, HONDURAS - A native Honduran who taught school in Kentucky for 30 years, Flavia Cueva had returned to her father's hacienda to create an eight-room bed-and-breakfast.
1000places > COPAN, HONDURAS - While we sat on the hillside overlooking the valley, our dinner was being made the "old fashioned way," with tortillas made from corn ground by hand on a metate, - a utensil still in use after 2,000 years.
1000places > COPAN, HONDURAS - Scooting around the steep streets leading up from the Parque Central in Copan Ruinas are numerous little "tuk-tuks" - a combination motorcycle/taxicab.
COPAN, HONDURAS - The Maya built their city on the banks of the Copan River. But over time, the river changed it course to gnaw at the east side of the Acropolis. Long before John Lloyd Stephens came upon the site, the river had swept away several buildings and washed away thousands of tons of stone, leaving exposed a vertical cut 185 feet in height. As Tatiana Proskouriakoff, one of the great Maya archaeologists, wrote: "Seen thus in section, ancient plaza floors and the remains of partially dismantled walls, covered by layer upon layer of later construction, testify to untold centuries of human effort."

1000places > COPAN, HONDURAS - The Maya built their city on the banks of the Copan River. But over time, the river changed it course to gnaw at the east side of the Acropolis. Long before John Lloyd Stephens came upon the site, the river had swept away several buildings and washed away thousands of tons of stone, leaving exposed a vertical cut 185 feet in height. As Tatiana Proskouriakoff, one of the great Maya archaeologists, wrote: "Seen thus in section, ancient plaza floors and the remains of partially dismantled walls, covered by layer upon layer of later construction, testify to untold centuries of human effort."
COPAN, HONDURAS - The Maya built their city on the banks of the Copan River. But over time, the river changed it course to gnaw at the east side of the Acropolis. Long before John Lloyd Stephens came upon the site, the river had swept away several buildings and washed away thousands of tons of stone, leaving exposed a vertical cut 185 feet in height. As Tatiana Proskouriakoff, one of the great Maya archaeologists, wrote: "Seen thus in section, ancient plaza floors and the remains of partially dismantled walls, covered by layer upon layer of later construction, testify to untold centuries of human effort."

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