PBi Packaging...Simplified.: Honduras

Last Wednesday through Friday, Annabella and I went with a group on a bus to Copan, Honduras! The town is well known for its large collection of Mayan sculptures, underground cities and sky high temples found by Italian archeologists. That was the main reason we decided to go on the mini trip. It was truly breath taking seeing carvings and the temples that were all hand crafted. It gave me goose bumps going underground and seeing the aqueducts (the first type of plumbing system known). You could barley could your jaw up going from one site to another. These people existed more than 1000 years before Christ and after Christ. The way they lived is beyond fascinating.
As time allowed us, we got to see another exotic site, The Jaguar Spa, which was hot water springs an hour away from Copan. Some of the water was up to 180 degrees Fahrenheit. As we walked through it was steaming and in the middle of this thick rainforest. I felt like I had just been dropped into Jurassic Park or something and some crazy dinosaur was going to pop out of nowhere, that's literally what it looked like. That or Tarzan and Jane were expected to fly out of the tree's...Anyway, we sat in the natural springs water which are suppose to "heal all in the soul", we put natural mud masks on and had stone foot "massages" (but they actually really hurt so we skipped that after one try). So enjoy the pictures because there some awesome things to see!

Jaguar Spa Hot Springs:

Cross the bridge and your spirtually reborn...if only it were that easy right?

JURRASIC PARK!

The foot "massage"
One side is hot and the other is cold and you walk around the circle SEVEN times
to help your feet. I decided my feet were fine...

The Swinging Bridge; which everyone though was funny to rock and jump
while I thought I was going to die and was NOT lauging at all.

Myan Ruins:

This is extordinary...The mayans carved this stone into a compass
that is hard to recognize. The center is the sun and what is shaped like a flower is what
they believe is a compass. The picture doesn't show the fading color that was once brightly painted but the
colors symbolize a creepy representation of the future world. You must note that this was made 1,000 years before christ.
The north a white, symbolizing caucasian people, the east was yellow, symbolizing asain people,
the south black, hence south american and african ethnicities, and leaving the west red, for the europeans.

Alter for sacrifices

Underground tunnels
Everytime there was a ruler died and a new one was elected
the Mayan people would cover the whole city and start to buliding new temples on top of it
to show respect for there new King.