The Paris of Maya cities

After 15 hours and 7 bus changes we arrived to Copán Ruinas exhausted. The reason why we travelled so far is that we wanted to avoid having to spend the night in Tegucigalpa or San Pedro Sula, which are two huge ugly scary cities.

On the following day, we visited the archaeological park, an impressive settlement of the Maya civilization, and a museum created to preserve some of the very elaborated Maya sculptures, facades and altars found in the area. There are two archaeological sites: the main one, where the rulers lived and public ceremonies used to take place (a site of pyramid-like structures, temples, and public areas), and the other one, where the middle class lived, called “Las Sepulturas”. The working-class Mayas, and slaves, lived in the surrounding mountains, and little is left of their constructions, as they didn’t live in stone houses.