Macaw Mountain Park

Macaw Mountain Park

Copan Ruinas, Honduras

Reviewed May 13th, 2006

For just 188 lempira ($10 U.S.) you can have a tour guide show you macaws, toucans, sheer limestone cliffs, and bushes bursting with vibrant flowers. You'll also be able to hold some of these colorful and characterful rescued and rehabilitated birds and drink gourmet cappucino made from shade grown coffee beans grown at the park. You can swim in a gently flowing river or marvel at the views of the surrounding foothills from the mirador at the end of a well marked nature trail. Pure water (a taken for granted expense in Central America) can be had for free courtesy a natural spring that took a test and got 95%. Thats a darn smart.

The people who built the wide flagstones of the paths in this place seemed to anticipate the needs of the weak Norte Americano bladder, for restrooms can be found almost around every corner. Full service restrooms, mind you, whose taps and toilets emit only spring water, whose walls doth know the bounty of surplus toilet paper and paper towels, whose wooden, venetian blind style doors allow light to penetrate, but delicately. Tourists are, after all, shade grown as well. Not only were all the facilities full service, but they manage to pull it off with real Central American flare, for the toilet stalls are indoors and completely enclosed but the washroom sinks are partially open, a common feature of most public commodes in this region.

- Justin Teerlinck

RESTROOM RATING: 10
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