TRAIN TRIP COPPER CANYON

TRAIN TRIP TO COPPER CANYON

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The big news is that I just got back from my great vacation taking the Copper Canyon train ride in Mexico.



Here are the Taramuhara Indians selling their wares at the Divisadero train stop. This is where 3 canyons converage. This is the biggest canyon system in the world, 7x bigger than the Grand Canyon in the US - and no lines, not a lot of people. The train crosses an elevation of 7,000 feet, involving something like 70 tunnels and 36 bridges. Those bridges are something else again!



You can hang out the doors between cards to take great photographs. I talked to tourists from Germany, France, Italy, Mexico and the US.

Here is the chapel in the mission at Cerocahui. Beautiful. They have a boarding school there for the Tarahumara Indian girls, and also a day school.



We got on at Chihuahua and then rode to El Fuerte, stopping along the way because the train isn't a sleeper. We stayed at Paraiso del Oso in Cerachui, Mission Tarahumara near Bahuichivo train stop, and Hotel Torres del Fuerte. The wonder, Sr. Torres, had been riding on the train with us. He and his wife converted the hotel from their colonial style home. We loved the mamma duckling in the courtyard, with her 10 little ones!

We visited the Pancho Villa museum. Viva Barranca de Cobre!

One of the best vacations I've ever had.