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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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• 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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