The Maya World Trail, also know as the Mundo Maya Trail, Ruta Maya and/or Maya Route is your mayan travel gateway to maya temples and maya ruins stretching from the mexican yucatan to Belize, Quatemala, Honduras and El Salvador. Whether you arrive by cruise ship from the Caribbean and/or Gulf of Mexico or by airplane, car or bus, the maya world is waiting to be explored.

Copan

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Honduras was on the very outskirts of the Mayan world. However, Copan is regarded as a superior Mayan archeological site. This UNESCO World Heritage Site is famous for its unique hieroglyphic staircase and its ball court, the second largest in the Mayan world. Copan is a large site -- there are 3500 mounds in the 9.25 square miles surrounding the main group, an area known as the Copan bottomlands, and another thousand mounds in the hills surrounding the bottomland.

The Copan River eroded the monumental complex's eastern edge, exposing its history more completely than the gingerly excavating and tunneling archeologists. The result is a real-life cross-section of Mayan construction. The Mayans frequently built on top of their old monuments, going higher, wider, and more elaborate. The old monuments are contained in the shell of the new, like a series of nesting eggs. The slice that the river took out gives a revealing look at this process, and is a good reason in itself to visit Copan.

The Hieroglyphic Staircase is another unique feature of Copan. Constructed in 743, the staircase tells the official history of the ancestors of King Smoke Shell on 63 steps of a tall pyramid -- the most complete chronology of any royal house. The kings of Copan really liked their self-aggrandizement. The Forest of the Kings, a field of elaborately carved stelae that are almost full fledged statues in the round. The stelae seem to depict Mayan kings, with glyphic inscriptions praising their auspiciousness and accomplishments. Walking amidst these stones is an eerie experience, like being a child lost in a crowd of demi-deities.

The nearest town is Coban Ruinas. Many people cross over the border from Guatemala to see the ruins on a daytrip.

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