The Adventures of Kerri & Matt

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

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

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This is the Rosalita Temple.

It once looked like this.

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

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

But it still has lots of carved decorations

And writing.

You just have to wander around underground to see it.

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

Yay for tunnels.

Copan is a small town that exists only for the ruins

It is surrounded by mountains

And jungle

And that’s pretty much it.

It has a museum

Which has artifacts from the ruins

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

And some pretty elaborate god statues

Thaloc still has his goggles

This beast has a head in his lap.

They also carved precious stones

And pottery

Some of it still had colour.

There were lots of birds at Copan

This is an ivory billed woodcreeper.

This is a nest.

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.

This is a scarlet macaw

Here he is looking puffier.

This is a mot-mot

They are very pretty.

This is a bronzed cowbird

This is a streak-backed oriole.