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At Copan Ruinas |
A Japanese mission from Houston, Texas visited Honduras from May
21-23rd. The tour group consists of 15 people including business
people, a doctor, a professor, representatives of Japanese enterprises
accompanied by the General Council of Japan, Karim Quibain and
the Japanese ambassador Sr. Masami Takemoto,and Japanese people
of Honduras.
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At Copan Ruinas |
Japanese ambassador, Sr.Takemoto, is committed to promote the
tourism of Honduras to Japanese people. And the mission was realized
at the first stage of the promotion. He hopes that more than 10
thousand Japanese tourists will come to Honduras in a year.
They arrived at the airport of San Pedro Sula in the morning of
the 21st. of May ,visited Puerto Cortes , the fortress of Omoa
and enjoyed the beautiful sceneries and local foods.
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At fortress of Omoa
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In the evening the presentation of the investment & tourism
of Honduras was held at Hotel Copantl by Eva Carolina Gomez, Vice
minister of Tourism, Nora de Turcios and Carolina Pascua from
FIDE.
The next day they visited Copán Ruinas and enjoyed the
majestic archaeological site of the Mayan world.
Sr. Seiichi Nakamura, Japanese Archaeologist especially guided
them around Copan Ruinas with his archaeological explanation.
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Presentation of investment &
tourism at hotel Copantl |
They visited the excavation site, the archaeological park, the
tunnels and the museum of the sculpture.
They enjoyed many sculptures around the site ,each with particular
meaning, Rosalila ,the hieroglyphic staircase and so on.
In the evening a party was held at Hacienda San Lucas, with majestic
scenery and delicious foods. They admired the beautiful sunset.
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At Hacienda San Lucas
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Brenie Matute, Minister of International Cooperation, Arnoldo
Aviles Minister of Culture,Margarita Durón de Gálvez
, the Director of the Institute of Anthrolopology & History
and her husband, Mauricio Arias, Major of Copán and his
wife, they also joined the party and enjoyed talking with the
Japanese people.
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The experience of the tour will open a new world of Honduras tourism.
IHT(Instituto Hondureno de Tourismo) cooperated with this event.
