Copan

I spent this week painting maras graffiti off a wine factory, planting new broccoli plants on Alba's farm, helping the local masons re landscape the office and teaching the school children the Michael Jackson Thriller dance for our school fair next week.

As a reward for all the hard work, we got to spend 2 nights at the Copan ruins on the Guatemala border. We had a stall in the central market and spent one morning marketing COMUCAP to local people and tourists. We then spent an afternoon at the ancient Mayan ruins which were fantastic. They were much bigger than I was expecting, but there were hardly any tourists there, unlike Chichen Itsa in Mexico where you couldn't move for tourists.

You were able to climb up the ruins and scramble around like at Angor Wat in Cambodia, there were lots of trees and tree roots which were distorting the stones, but made it more atmospheric, especially in the cemetery at the back of the ruins.

We also managed to fit in a visit to Macaw Mountain, a bird sanctuary at the top of a hill! Macaws are the national bird of Honduras, and in Copan there were dozens. They were releasing them back into the wild at the ruins.