Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
Base Camp Tours (
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in Copán Ruinas and nearly every Antigua travel agency
run shuttles between those two towns. Scheduled shuttles leave Copán for Antigua (L400,
minimum four passengers, six hours) daily and can drop you in Guatemala City (five
hours) en route. You can also get off at Río Hondo, or it can organize shuttle/Pullman
combinations to Río Dulce and Flores.
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Around Copán Ruinas
Activities
Finca El Cisne
( 2651-4695;
www.fincaelcisne.com
; r per person incl 3 meals, horseback tour & admission to thermal baths
L1900)
Visiting this working farm, 24km from Copán Ruinas, is more like an agro-eco ex-
perience than a tour. Founded in the 1920s and still operating, the
finca
mainly raises
cattle and grows coffee and cardamom, but it also produces corn, avocados, beans, bread-
fruit and star fruit, among other things.
Day-long and overnight packages include guided horse riding through the forests and
pastures (with a stop to swim in the Río Blanco) and tours of the coffee and cardamom
fields and processing plants. If you come between February and October you can help
with the harvest. Lodging is five simple, rustic rooms in the old workers quarters, with
meals and a visit to nearby hot springs included. You can book tours in its office inside the
Café ViaVia.
TOUR
Agua Caliente
(Av Sesemil; admission L40; 8am-6pm)
The attractively situated Agua Caliente is 23km north of
Copán Ruinas via the road running north out of town (not to be confused with another
Agua Caliente in Honduras, not far from Esquipulas). Here hot water flows and mingles
with a cold river. There are change rooms, a basketball court and bathrooms plus a small
shop selling soft drinks and snacks.
Frequent minibuses leave from in front of the football field in Copán Ruinas, passing
right in front of the hot springs (L35). Coming back, wait for one of the same buses, or
SWIMMING