2011/11/18

Day 43: Copan ruin in Honduras








The ruin in Copan Honduras, recognized as world heritage in 1980, is just around the Guatemala border.  The ruin is considered the best of Maya art due to the uniqueness and complicity of its countless sculptures. 

Copan ruin is the only ruin that presents traces of Mayan female king, and it also attracts more archaeologists' attention and researches than other Maya ruins do.  As such, it became the most widely understood ruin in Maya world.

I once read a bloger´s comment on Copan: if Tikal Guatemala is New York of the ancient Maya world, then Copan is just like Paris at its time.

The ruin is just ten to fifteen minutes walking distance away from Copan downtown.  Ticket is 15 USD.

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