Trip to Copan Part 2 - La Hacienda San Lucas

Laura had already made reservations for us to spend the night in Copan, so we drove to Hacienda San Lucas, an old set of dwellings converted into an ecolodge. It was rustic, naturally, but completely adequate. They claimed to have solar lighting, which I think they did, but they also had other electricity, I'm pretty sure, since they were running a coffee maker down in the cocina.

The rooms were screened and had wooden shutters, and each had its own bathroom. The room was filled with burning candles when we arrived, and we left a couple of them on through the night. Somebody spent way too much time fixing the toilet paper.

The veranda had hammocks all along it, so we all took a little snooze. There was a dog there that must have had pica, because it kept chewing on wood, rattan, banana leaves, and plastic cups. At 8pm we had a lovely 5-course candlelight dinner (well, it really had to be by candlelight, since there were hardly any other lights, except for the coffee maker).

The next morning we got off to a bit of a late start since breakfast wasn't ready at the time advertised, but it gave me a chance for some birdwatching. It took only a few minutes to find a bunch of white-throated magpie jays up in the trees. If you looked out instead of up from this location, you could also see some of the Mayan ruins on the other side of the river. But that will be my next post.

Off to the airport in about an hour or so. I've been able to use Gary's computer to make this post today since he is busy consulting instead of programming.