INTERESTING PLACES
Bay Islands

The Bay Islands is a province of the Republic of Honduras and it is made up of three main islands: Roatan, Utila, and Guanaja. It has rapidly become a very important scuba diving destination in the Western Caribbean and it is blessed with the second largest barrier reef in the world.

Roatan is the largest and most developed island of the three. There are direct flights from Houston, Miami and Milan, Italy.

Your best bet is to fly to the Honduras mainland and from there you can reach the three islands either by inexpensive ferries or a 15 minute short flight from La Ceiba or San Pedro Sula.
 

 

Copan
 

Copan is one of the largest and most impressive of all the Mayan centers discovered so far. It consists of pyramids, temples but the speciality of the house is the 21 stone pillars or stelae with exquisite carved likenesses of ancient Copan kings. Tikal in Guatemala may be bigger, and Chichen Itza may have bigger pyramids} but Copan has better sculptures.
The Maya built Copan in one of the most beautiful areas of Honduras on the banks of the Copan River in a fertile valley with a near-perfect climate.

The Copan Archaeological Park covers 74 130 acres/30 025 hectares at an elevation of 2 100 ft/640 meters. Only a fraction of the ruins have been excavated but as jungle growth is cleared away from each new section and more mounds are tunneled into even more wondrous things appear.

 

Comayagua
 

Anyone driving from San pedro sula to Tegucigalpa should get out of the bus or car here and go and see the former capital of Honduras. Founded in 1537 it was the capital of Honduras for more than 300 years but was heavily damaged by fire during a civil war in 1873. Consequently the capital was moved to Tegucigalpa.