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 ...

The early-morning sun burnishes the stone temples in Copan to a golden sheen, while on their facades, serpents writhe, jaguars crouch, birds preen and gods grimace in a pantomime that has been going ...

Whoever named Copan Ruinas had it easy. A town springs up by mysterious Maya ruins in Honduras' Copan Valley? Presto, just link the location to its main attraction. Visitors often presume this ...

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 ...

Professor and artist Raoul de la Sota will take visitors on a study program from March 22 to April 6 to the ancient Mayan cities of Tikal in Guatemala and Copan in Honduras. The tour will concentrate ...

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, ...

COPAN, HONDURAS -- Honduras is probably more often associated with the Peace Corps and church missions than tourism. But this Central American country, rich in culture and history and blessed with the ...