TRAVEL
November 26, 2000 | KARIN ESTERHAMMER, TIMES STAFF WRITER
When explorer John Lloyd Stephens began cutting through tangled roots and trees to the Mayan ruins of Copan in 1839, he didn't fully understand what he was seeing. When we found the Copan ruins last August, we didn't understand what we were seeing either. Nothing in the park was labeled, guides were nowhere to be found and pamphlets gave minimal information.