Having travellled to Honduras a couple of weeks after Hurricane "Mitch", things were a bit difficult, but after working with The local phone companies, to ensure recovery of service, I got a chance to risk a drive from SanPedro Sula, where I was working, to Copan, right up in the north.
Copan is a Mayan City, and is the largest in Honduras, with fantastic buildings and statues, all relatively well preserved or restored. Even in the midst of all the devastation, this was one of my life "high spots" !!!
Copan Ruinas.......A Hard Drive, but Wow!!
Travelling in Style
Hmmmm, the roa
As we travelled, we kept having to
drive around bits of washed away road, or land-slides. This in itself was OK, but on the
way home it was dark....too...... During the hurricane, about five feet
of rain fell in a week, and 11,000 people were killed. I flew in to help get a comms system
surveyed, and specified for the emergency services, and only had one day to
travel......
Fantastic! The floods caused by the hurricane
got to within a few hundred yards of Copan, and the devastation could be clearly
seen from the ruins..... The city itself, is a fantastic monument
to the Mayan people who built it, with its stone vaulted ceilings, and huge
terraces...... 
Some of
the city...
Bloodstone.....for head removals.......Hmmm!!!
