The best thing about Copan may have been the tour we took of Finca El Cisne. That's Chris on Grullo. Note Chris's enormous backpack. Our first aid kit was inside and he was sure I was going to fall off the horse.The first half of the tour was a ride through the farm. It was like a country unto itself. It had it's own store, school, villages, factory (for coffee), and significant population.
The farm grows coffee and cardamon for cash. It grows everything else you can imagine for its own consumption - corn, pineapples, bananas, plantains, lemons. The list just goes on. They even had a couple man made lakes to farm fish.
The afternoon was dedicated to a tour of the coffee factory. Chris and I have been on a coffee tour before, but the other place was much bigger. El Cisne doesn't do much roasting themselves yet. They mostly sell the beans to other roasters.
In between horseback riding and coffee touring we were treated to a sit down lunch in the hacienda, cooked by our hosts mother. The food was amazing. I even ate black bean soup (and I hate beans).
The day ended with a dip in some natural hot springs nearby. After that, Carlos (our host) drove us back to town - exhausted and happy.
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