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HONDURAS: 23.07. - 25.07.2008
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TRANSLATED BY GOOGLE: Sorry for the bad qualety
Itinerary: Copán
Cycled kilometers: 22 km
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 Foreword: We were just 48 hours in Honduras,
but the short trip to the Maya ruins of Copán visit was worth the
trouble. Actually we had planned another
Diving course on the Bay Islands of Honduras to make, but as Nadine
virtually all their money had borrowed her sister, after 10 years
from the U.S. back to Germany, we now build a new life must fund their
trip was almost empty. So we had to dive course is removed (by me
they wanted the money does not accept), but the Maya ruins, we have
nevertheless. |
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 Trip to Honduras (Honduras):
The famous Maya ruins of Copán, because of their beautiful stone work
called "Athens of the new world" are just a few kilometres across
the border in Honduras and so we make a detour to the small neighbouring
country. A total of 200 km and orderly many additional meters of altitude
in humid tropical climate, we act while we can, but the ruins have
given us very much. |
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 Copán Ruinas (Honduras): 426 AD. left Yax
K'uk 'Mo' Kingdom, went to Copán, then replaced the ruler and built
a new palace. Important for the success of Yax K'uk 'Mo' was certainly
that just this year a Baktum, an important 400 years period in the
Maya calendar (such as for us the millennium), was finished and that
a new era began. In the following years, nearly 400 Copán of 16 kings
with beautiful names as "18 Rabbit," "Smoke monkey" or "Moon Jaguar"
government. The last king, Yak Pasah, incidentally, the first not
from the bloodline of the founder came, saw to 4x4 kings in 400 years
ahead of the end of Copán, devoted his time to completing all of his
predecessors commenced construction projects and had made the altar
Q. With his death in 820 AD. and thus an almost vollendetem 400 years
cycle was also the end of Copán sealed. Before the city that its heyday
had 25,000 inhabitants, then leave forever was a stele was built in
the Yak Pasah, the last royal rulers gives his staff to a "king will
never prevail on an altar was never completed,". 1576 Copán was first
discovered by the Spaniards. |
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 Altar Q (Honduras): On the altar Q are all 16 rulers
displayed in chronological order. The first sees Yax K'uk 'Mo' the
rulers staff to his successor, transfers and thus the dynasty founded.
As the last ruler then Yak Pasah itself, which concludes the dynasty.
On top of the altar is the history of Copán presented |
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 Hieroglyphic staircase (Honduras): On the
72 stages of the huge staircase, a total of 2500 to find hieroglyphs.
Thus, the staircase the longest hieroglyphic inscription to you today
in the Maya world has found. 753 AD. the stairway of the Maya rulers
"smoke shell" commissioned by the glorious past of the city to be
documented, although Copán already on the descending branch. Since
the staircase collapsed and archaeologists, as they discovered more
or less only cairns vorfanden, one could, unfortunately, until now
only the bottom 15 steps to fully restore |
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 Ball game (Honduras): In a very beautiful
little museum in Copán can be seen in a short video film of the Mayan
ball game. In principle apply in about the rules of soccer tennis.
Played 4, the KG (!) Serious ball but only with the hip. To not right
the first ball contact hip to break the players wear a thick padded
leather belt. Played the game on the ball on the photograph depicted
ball playground. |
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 Stelas (Honduras): The stelas in Copán, about 3m high
with stone boulders decorated work, the most beautiful and best preserved
Mayan stelas throughout the world. The stelas are something like the
history of the Mayans, because they have the steles both the Maya
king and portrays his life, works and deeds and other important events
with hieroglyphics documented. On the hieroglyphics decorated with
52 A stele (731 AD.) One finds, among other things hieroglyphics from
Palenque, Tikal and Calakmul, the importance of Copán stresses. |
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 Water shortages (Honduras): Because of
the strong rains of recent days and the so-triggered landslides, the
water pipe to Copán Ruinas de capped. Even as we arrived we were of
a hostel on the grounds that there is no water, refused. But we find
a nice hostel is still in its water tank and can even shower! The
next day it rains in the afternoon as currents and so appear everywhere
at once bucket to hear the precious moisture to collect. We believe
the water from our hostel as a drinking water on the way and so we
also pans out and collect a few litres of rain water. Rege water is
sterilized guaranteed! (The bucket is the bottom right) |
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