Am writing now as a huge thunderstorm pelts Copan having been ominously brewing all day. Luckily, am dry and swinging in a hammock but hoping it clears up before I have to get some dinner...and pick up my laundry. Today was my last full day in Honduras and it was a good one. It started up a tree. I finally managed to do a canopy tour! I've been waiting to do one of these for ages and for whatever reason been in the right place at the wrong time etc and not been...

Copan was the capital of a major kingdom in the southern Mayan empire from the 5th to 9th centuries AD. It was a cosmopolitan city, with inhabitants of many different ethnic groups from the surrounding region. The city fell around the 800s due to epidemics striking the heart of the nobility and causing the collapse of this once almighty powerful Mayan city state. From then until the Spanish conquest, villagers not kings made home in its opulent courts. The Mayan...

God, if you're there, please just burn all Honduran ATMs. All of them. Thanks. Will explain later. It was a slow start to the day. I got disappointingly little sleep given how much time I had...largely cos it's so dam hot in El Tunco (well, in Central America generally to be honest) and fans are so dam loud! My transfer to Copan arrived at 12 and was effectively private. It was just me in a minibus listening to Dua Lipa while a sleepy Honduran navigated Salv...