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ing the Copán Valley grow good-quality coffee and cardamom. If you're visiting the ruins
of Copán, try to spend at least one night in Copán Ruinas.
As elsewhere in Central America, the town is built around its
parque central,
recently re-
modeled in questionable architectural style, but with a pretty colonial church. On the north
end of the town's plaza is the
Museo Casa K'inich
(8 A.M.-noon and 1-5 P.M. Mon.-Sat.,
free admission), which is an interactive children's museum on Mayan subjects such as mu-
sic and the Mayan number system. Few museums in the Mayan world live up to Copán's
on-sitemuseum,thoughthe
Museo Regional de Arqueología
(tel.651-4437,8A.M.-noon
and 1-4 P.M. daily, $2), on the southwest corner of the plaza, is worth a look. There are ex-
hibits of carved jade, painted pottery, and figurines. The museum's highlight is the Tumba
delBrujo,thetombofaMayanshamansaidtohavediedaroundA.D.700andfoundburied
under the Plaza de los Jaguares.
