• More Copan

    Look, more ruins!

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    Are you shocked?

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    This guy has a monkey snout

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    These skulls look worried. I wonder what there is to worry about when you are a skull?

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    This crocodile looks hungry

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    Their writing has a lot of faces in it

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    It’s pretty elaborate

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    Can you imagine having to draw eyes and noses and earrings on your letters?

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    They did simplify it somewhat when they were writing on paper

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    This is a hole

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    This is a ruined temple with trees growing on it

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    This one has been excavated and reconstructed

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    This is not what snake teeth look like.

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    I’m not sure what animal this is supposed to be.

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    This is Alter Q

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    It has all the old rulers around the outside.

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  • Copan Tunnels

    Copan has new temples built on top of old temples too,

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    So you have to go underground to see the older stuff.

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    This is the Rosalita Temple.

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    It once looked like this.

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    But now it is underground and lost most of its colour.

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    It’s hard to even figure out what part you’re looking at.

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    But it still has lots of carved decorations

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    And writing.

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    You just have to wander around underground to see it.

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    Statues look creepy when you stick a flashlight under their face, just like people do.

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    Yay for tunnels.

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  • Copan Town

    Copan is a small town that exists only for the ruins

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    It is surrounded by mountains

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    And jungle

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    And that’s pretty much it.

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    It has a museum

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    Which has artifacts from the ruins

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    Including flint eccentrics, which are weird carved things no one knows the reason for.

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    And some pretty elaborate god statues

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    Thaloc still has his goggles

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    This beast has a head in his lap.

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    They also carved precious stones

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    And pottery

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    Some of it still had colour.

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  • Copan Birds

    There were lots of birds at Copan

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    This is an ivory billed woodcreeper.

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    This is a nest.

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    This is a squirrel. It is neither a bird nor a good picture, but it had been a while since we had seen a squirrel, so you’re getting a picture anyway.

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    This is a scarlet macaw

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    Here he is looking puffier.

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    This is a mot-mot

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    They are very pretty.

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    This is a bronzed cowbird

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    This is a streak-backed oriole.

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  • Copan Spiders

    There were a lot of spiders in Copan.

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    Matt spent a lot of time like this

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    He got some good pictures

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    These ones had impressive webs

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    This one just had web around his nest

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    He’s actually pretty cute for a big hairy spider

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    Here is a little not-hairy spider

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    This one has a smaller body but longer legs

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    This one is bigger but not too hairy

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    This sculpture is covered in spider web

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    It’s pretty thick

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    This one has short legs in the back

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    And long legs in the front.

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