As our United Airlines flight was descending into San Pedro Sula airport, the large square fields outside La Lima and the serpentine Ulua river brought back memories of so many landings and time here ...

If the soaring ruins at Tikal conjure a civilization at the peak of its ceremonial hubris -- with temples that dwarf the very jungle -- the Copan ruins recall something more like a quiet city by the ...

Skeletons unearthed from the ruins of the ancient city of Copán in Honduras have yielded clues to the collapse of the Mayan civilisation. Copán, now a Unesco World Heritage site, thrived during the ...

A vacation in Honduras can conjure up visions of spectacular destinations: the Mayan ruins of Copán, cloud forest after cloud forest filled with exotic flora and fauna, the gorgeous beaches and the d ...

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GETTING THERE: Other than a charter air strip, Copan doesn't have an airport (they are reportedly building one in the next few years). The closest international gateway is San Pedro Sula, Honduras, ...

Mention Honduras and the words tourist destination probably aren’t the first ones that spring to mind. But soon they may be. Central America’s second-largest country is home to lush cloud forests, ...

Central America, with its rich patchwork of cultures, diverse landscapes and abundant wildlife, is a region well worth exploring in depth. These seven sites are just a taste of the treasures to be ...

When explorers rediscovered the lost cities of the Maya in the 1850s, it was a mystery why an apparently successful city was suddenly abandoned. But recent studies of skeletons from the period ...