Honduras

If you are into scuba diving or snorkeling, the Bay Islands off the Caribbean coast of Honduras are heaven. Here the second largest barrier reef in the world is at its best. As an extra bonus the seafood is delicious. I got addicted to conch soup and had to eat it at least three times a day...

Tegucigalpa

St. Michael Cathedral, in Plaza Morazan or Plaza Central

Roatán

Arriving in West Bay Beach by water taxi was part of our daily "routine"

As soon as you walk from the beach into the water, you enter the marvelous underwater universe

West End is the best spot to start your underwater tour, or just stay under the shadow and feel as if you were in paradise

The amazing beauty of the marine life can't be captured on film

Unforgettable West Bay Beach just before sunset

We thought that we had seen all the beauty that Roatán had to offer us. When our airplane took-off and flew over those places now so familiar to us, than we were in a state of awe. These photos don't make justice to what we saw from the air: several tones of red and orange under the water, dark blues that would get darker all the way down to the ocean floor. It was like having a colorful three-dimensional view of the Andromeda Galaxy from a spaceship.

Aerial view of West Bay Beach and West End

*All underwater photos were taken with US$10 disposable cameras

Copán

The ruins of Copán are unique in the Mayan world for its sculptures

Temple 11 (left), meant to be King Yax-Pac's portal to the other world, and the Great Plaza or Plaza de las Estelas (right)

The Hieroglyphic Stairway, work of the 15^th King known as Smoke Shell, holds the longest known
Mayan text with approximately 2,500 hieroglyphs. Stela M can be seen in the foreground.

One of many sculptures on the East Plaza or Patio de los Jaguares

Stela C on the Great Plaza. Most of the stelae were erected during the times of
the 13^th King, known as 18 Rabbit, between the years 711 and 736.

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