Honduras
Honduras is Central America’s poorest country, but overall, there is a good vibe, and the people are friendly. Visiting Honduras, we had the goal of seeing the Copan ruins, and making a camp in the forested highlands outside of Tegucigalpa. The border crossing into Honduras is easy, and the border officials were all nice and reasonably efficient. There was no sign of any corruption.
The unique appeal of Copan are the magnificent stella, which due to the quality of the stone, have endured millennia with minimal decay. The ruins themselves are impressive, but lack the impact of the some of the other sites we visited.
We also had the opportunity to travel an overland route into the mountains of central Honduras, ending at a 4,200′ tall pine forest. There is camping in the trees, and it proved to be a notable contrast to the jungles we had traveled and camped in the week prior. Overall, Honduras was nice, but lacks the pure adventure feeling in Guatemala.