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Decided to stay another day in Copan Ruinas, such a cute little town and plenty to do...and I missed a bit of ElSal, so back to the Horizonte Surf Camp Hotel....<br />Another morning and everyone picks up from where they were last night....little Beatrice the 15 yo dynamo who seems to run the little palapa restaurant at the bottom of the property, right on the beach, gets out of the hamaca in the bar where she slept last night, she works from 6 in the am til 9 or later at night with 2 older woman who do the cooking, a wood fire right on the bench, gradually pushing in the branches and small logs that fuel the fire, perfect temp control....we chose the 2 bed bungalows, with aircon and fan!!...just couldn't fir in the wardrobe with 3 bunks option....

We'll all be ruinas, said Hanrahan

Bill Shum
2006-03-24 22:09:12

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Decided to stay another day in Copan Ruinas, such a cute little town and plenty to do...and I missed a bit of ElSal, so back to the Horizonte Surf Camp Hotel....
Another morning and everyone picks up from where they were last night....little Beatrice the 15 yo dynamo who seems to run the little palapa restaurant at the bottom of the property, right on the beach, gets out of the hamaca in the bar where she slept last night, she works from 6 in the am til 9 or later at night with 2 older woman who do the cooking, a wood fire right on the bench, gradually pushing in the branches and small logs that fuel the fire, perfect temp control....we chose the 2 bed bungalows, with aircon and fan!!...just couldn't fir in the wardrobe with 3 bunks option....

Along the beach head, rounded rocks, pummeled by the sea for a million years barricade the stone encrusted concrete walls that, most of the time, protect the palapas from falling into the sea...the surf break roars away about 30 metres out, constant thunder day and night, along the shore you hear the hissing, crashing shore break with a rattling clattering of smaller stones
above the sea wall, rickety posts support the palapa roofs, obviously made for easy destruction and rebuild after the storm..

Along the roads we ride thru little settlements that each feature their distinctive roadside stalls, and in each area the style is identical...I guess someone comes up with an idea and if its successful....like one day someone stops and buys something!...they all copy it exactly!...so the bean area, for a couple of hundred metres there are several dozen bean stalls, a little bench table with neatly stacked clear plastic bags of beans, colour co-ordinated, a stack of red, another of white and another of brown beans, maybe 6 or so kilo bags of each, a shelter of some material to shade the vendor who sits waiting...so this exact scene is repeated a hundred times....then the watermelons, ...