Days 34,35,36 Sunday 1/31-Tuesday2/2

Another border crossing... into Honduras and to the Copan Ruins. The crossing only took 2 1/2 hours. It's always parking along the side of the road and waiting while the wagonmaster takes our passports and tries to proccess us as a group. It's hot and crowded and then all of a sudden it's rush-rush thru the leaving border into no mans land and getting fumigated (like running thru a car wash) and then we are in line, waiting to get proccessed into the next country.

We arrive at our new campsite....a pasture near the Copan Ruins and a town called Copan. Again it's dry camping....No water,no electric,no dumping,and we'll be here for 3 nights.

Monday morning, we climb into the back of a truck and are driven to the ruins for a tour... our guide is Yoboni, he says it was supposed to be Giovanni but no one knew how to spell it. Anyway, he was a great guide and the ruins are a real treasure! The museum was the best we have seen...there was mention of Peabody and I am wondering if the Peabody Essex Museum had some involvement.

Tuesday was a free day and I signed up for a sauna and massage at the wellness center. How to describe the wellness center?? A little concrete building with 3 rooms and a hallway with a cubicle to remove and leave your clothing, except your "bloomers", wrap in a towel and traipse down a stone pathway in the back yard to a "cave" where there is a shower and the sauna.... one hour later after 15min in the sauna then a shower, repeted again and again, then led to one of the rooms and massaged as never before!!!! It was the most draining, rejuvinating experience ever! I was worthless the rest of the day but felt wonderful.........