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  Copan Ruinas, Honduras
Friday, December 29, 2006

Only 1 ATM in La Entrada and it doesnt take my card I´ve just wasted my last 20 on the hotel room and so Im taking a fair gamble when I hop on the chicken bus to Copan Ruinas with about 100 lempiras in my pocket. Im only taking the risk thanks to a bit of internet research which supposedly revealed a compatible ATM in the town. I arrive the ATM is there thank god. Connection Failure.... uh oh here we go again except this time I dont even have enough money to get out of the town. I stand in line at the bank and try other options but my credit card is long gone, im screwed. On the way out of the bank considering the best way to beg a few lemps from the wealthy americans that abound here I try the ATM one more time and almost break into tears of joy when I hear the machine start to count out a fat wad of Lempiras.
It turns out Ive made it to my second impromptu Central American festival and men in cowboy hats are setting up big speaker stacks and screens in the main square. I check out the ruins first and am impressed by the sheer size, there arent any spectaculr architectural feats but the size of the acoustically modeled main plaza drills in just how serious this civilization was. I get back to wander round the festival but compared to what Im used to it would be hard to call it a party, all the ingredients are there, beer stands in the square(warm) lots of street food(closes at 9) and a big dancefloor but the only people dancing are under the age of 12 and after a few aimless rounds of the square failing to encounter any interesting conversation or company I retire to my hotel room and get a good nights sleep before the shuttle to Antigua the next day.

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