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If there were one place on our trip that I would like to live, it would be Copan, Honduras. It is a small, safe community with plenty of things of interest, such as the archaeological site at Copan, including the Sculpture Museum and a smaller museum, the Copan Museum in town. The Mayatan Bilingual School is a fascinating project. Wireless internet is also a real plus, at least for this computer geek! The best overview of the country can be found here. Be sure to follow the links on this site, which contain lots of information in a very readable form. The U.S. State Department has a comprehensive review of Honduran information. There are several other links that amused me: A YouTube slide show of the Copan ruins. And another. And one more. There are a lot more once you get to the section on YouTube. Click on the pictures to see some great photography of the ruins at Copan. There are some good pictures and background information on this site, though the background is somewhat distracting.
Finally, to wrap up what we have learned, Nova on public television has had several features on the Maya. The following is from the PBS website: Welcome to the companion Web site to "Lost King of the Maya," originally broadcast on February 13, 2001. The film follows the work of archeologists who are using new excavations and hieroglyphic translations to interpret the early history of Copán, a Classic Maya site in northern Honduras. (For NOVA's April 2008 program on how Maya glyphs were translated, visit the "Cracking the Maya Code" program site.) Here's what you'll find online:
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