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An Adventure in Copper Canyon, Mexico, Chapter Two – The Colonial Town of El Fuerte
Blog: Hole In The Donut - 25 March 2010
Eager to discover whether my decision to bypass Los Mochis and instead catch the Copper Canyon train from the colonial city of El Fuerte was a good one, I set out to explore the town. What had seemed a maze-like route between the bus station and Rio Vista Hotel the night before was an easy [...]
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An Adventure in Copper Canyon, Mexico, Chapter One
Blog: Hole In The Donut - 23 March 2010
The first time my bus was pulled over by the Federal Police, the officer who boarded walked right by me without a glance. He asked the young man behind me where he was going and demanded to see his ID. All the way to the back, he questioned and checked the papers of young men. [...]
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The coast from Los Mochis to Puerto Vallarta
Blog: Lost World Expedition - 12 January 2010
This post will have a bit of everything and a lot of photos… To be perfectly honest the coast of Sinaloa and Nayarit is beautiful, but so far nothing quite compares to what we saw in Baja. Sorry Edmundo. Don’t get me wrong there are awesome places all along the coast, but not quite there [...]
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The Town Time Almost Forgot – Alamos, Sonora, Mexico
Blog: Trans-Americas Journey - 12 January 2010
After driving across the Copper Canyon and resting up at Torres del Fuerte hotel in El Fuerte we veered off the pavement once again and hit the back roads headed for Alamos. Sure you can get there on the highway but there’s also a network of good dirt roads that connect El Fuerte and Alamos on a route that takes you through the Sonoran desert and past a few isolated villages often on stretches of the original Camino Real. The trick is knowing which way to go.
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Los Mochis and Around
Blog: Lost World Expedition - 28 December 2009
After Luis’ seasickness adventure on the La Paz-Topolobampo ferry we stayed in the first hotel we could find, had a good night’s sleep and woke up to drive to Los Mochis. We were scheduled to meet Edmundo Fuentes in Los Mochis… but let’s take a few steps back and introduce Edmundo. Luis met Edmundo through [...]
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You Can Get There From Here – Copper Canyon, Chihuahua, Mexico (Part 8)
Blog: Trans-Americas Journey - 10 December 2009
We’d taken the el CHEPE Copper Canyon train. We’d used our feet. We’d even conquered two of the most dramatic driving roads into and out of individual canyons in order to visit the towns of Batopilas and Urique. All that was left was to drive from one end of the Copper Canyon region to the other.
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All Aboard El Chepe – Copper Canyon, Chihuahua, Mexico
Blog: Trans-Americas Journey - 9 November 2009
It’s easy to get swept up in the awesome mountain scenery that reveals itself around every bend, but the train that takes you through the Copper Canyon (Barrancas del Cobre in Spanish) is a marvel in and of itself: 408 miles of track with 86 tunnels and 37 bridges (one spans a chasm at more than 1,000 feet above the canyon floor). During one unbelievable eight mile stretch the train make a series of three 180 degree turns (one over a bridge and two in tunnels) in order to change altitude by more than 1,000 feet–a mind-blowing rate for a train.
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The Copper Canyon railway
Blog: Itinerant Londoner - 29 April 2009
As well as the natural wonders, the other reason the Copper Canyon is famous is for the Ferrocarril Chihuahua al Pacifico (CHEPE for short), better known in English as the Copper Canyon railway. The Sierra Madre Occidental is the huge mountain range that runs down the western side of Mexico, dividing the central plain from the [...]
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