Getting // Going : Copan Ruins

Lago de Yojoa >> Copan Ruins

The easiest and fastest way to get to Copan Ruinas from Lago de Yojoa is to go back through San Pedro Sula. You can catch the bus to San Pedro Sula on the main street in Los Naranjos about every half hour and it will cost you about $2usd/40 lemps. From San Pedro Sula just ask for Copan Ruinas and you’ll get directed to the Casasola bus line. This trip takes about 3-4 hours and will cost $6.50usd/ 125 lemps.

Copan Ruins >> San Salvador >> La Libertad (El Zonte, El Tunco, etc. in El Salvador)

Being that Copan is a bit out of the way in Honduras, it is a little tricky to be efficient in your exit, but hey! that’s what tramping embraces, right?

Ok so you are going to hop on one of the smaller buses headed out of Copan Ruinas to Santa Rosa. It leaves a couple times a day starting at around 7 am (check with the drivers the day before) and the earlier you leave the better, since it will take hours to get to anyplace from here. It will cost you $3usd/60 lemps for this ride.

In Santa Rosa you are going to get on the bus going to Ocotepeque, this is a bigger bus and it will cost $2.50usd/50 lemps. No remember, like with any bus station in Central America, people will be pushing and pulling you to several different buses — Ocotepeque is the most direct.

In Ocotepeque you will  need to take a taxi to the actual border crossing. This should run you about $.75usd/15 lemps per person.

Once you cross the border just walk on up the hill and you’ll come to the bus depot. You should be able to hop right onto a bus to San Salvador that will cost you $1.80usd. (El Salvador uses U.S. dollars). Once in San Salvador you can catch an air conditioned shuttle bus to La Libertad (El Tunco, El Zonte, and other beach towns) for $1.50usd. Just make sure you get to the “Oeste” bus station where this bus departs from.

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