Copper Canyon / Sierra Tarahumara

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Articles History Lodging Parks, Preserves Tours and Tourism Transportation Articles Barranca del Cobre: North America's Other Majestic Canyon, Focus on Geography, Volume 51, Issue 3, Winter 2008, pp. 1-10. Copper Canyon - By Theodore W. Scull, Cruise Travel, Sep/Oct2008, Vol. 30 Issue 2, p42-43. The dramatic appeal of Copper Canyon and Balderrama hotels is unrivaled - By Glo Davis and Humberto Salazar Lopez, Hispanic Times Magazine, Oct/Nov1994, Vol. 15 Issue 5, p58-59. The Gorge No One Knows - By John Gottberg Anderson, The Bend Bulletin, February 8, 2009. In a Canyon, a Different Mexico - By Beth Greenfield, New York Times, April 7, 2006. "The view from a cozy car on the Copper Canyon Railroad in Mexico is dazzling: mossy, emerald hills and slate-blue lakes slowly give way to red canyon walls that rise below and above the train tracks to dizzying depths and heights." The Jewel in the Sierra Madre - By Masha Nordbye, World & I, December 1996, Vol. 11, Issue 12. "Copper Canyon is quite different from a national park in the United States. The trails are not marked or maintained, nor are there any really accurate maps or posted signs. Hundreds of trails, including old animal paths, branch out endlessly in every direction. The three of us had to travel as people have here for centuries--on foot, and relying completely on ourselves for survival. Because there are no sources, we had to carry in all of our own food and gear. Along the way, we camped and purified water from the numerous rivers and streams." Making Tracks in the Mountains - By Florence Fabricant, New York Times, January 12, 1997. "Riding the train from west to east guarantees that the most exciting and scenic part of the trip, the 150 miles from the Rio Fuerte Bridge, about 18 miles east of El Fuerte, to Creel, a kind of frontier town along the way, is made during daylight hours, especially since delays are endemic. Those going east to west risk making this part of the trip after dark. For the best views it is essential to sit on the south, or right-hand, side of the train as it travels east. Having a cloth to wipe off the windows is another good idea." A People Apart - By Cynthia Gorney, National Geographic, November 2008, Vol. 214, Issue 5. "By the most recent government count, 106,000 Tarahumara live in Mexico, making them one of the largest indigenous groups in North America; the majority still live in relative isolation in the area Mexico promotes as Copper Canyon, but both the place-name and the image of its inhabitants sketched by tourist outfits ("They live a simple life undisturbed by modern technologies," reads one online write-up) turn out to be fragments, understatements, misleading in the neatness of their packaging." Trek Copper Canyon Rim to Rim: Hike North America's deepest canyon - By Kristin Bjornsen, Backpacker Magazine, January 2009. "At Divisadero, check out the phenomenal views at El Ojo de la Barranca (the Eye of the Canyon), a precipitous arroyo that dives bullet-straight 5,000-plus feet to the river. From there, head southeast to a long, rocky ridge that separates El Ojo and a large arroyo called Rurahuachi. The trail snakes along the ridge and also switchbacks into the Rurahuachi for about seven miles to the Urique River, transitioning from conifers up high to figs, ceiba trees, and bamboo below." History El Fuerte Lodging Balderrama Hotels and Tours Copper Canyon Riverside Lodge - Batopilas Copper Canyon Sierra Lodge Hotel la Choza - El Fuerte Hotel Mansion Tarahumara Hotel Mision - Cerocahui Paraiso del Oso - Cerocahui, Chihuahua Hotel Mirador Posada Barrancas Mirador - Areponapuchi. Spectacular views Posada de Creel Posada del Hidalgo Uno Lodge Parks, Preserves Barranca del Cobre National Park (Parque Natural Barranca del Cobre) Parque Natural Basaseachic Cascada - With Cascada de Basaseachic Piedra Volada Tourism Balderrama Hotels and Tours Mexican Tourism Board People's Guide to Mexico Sierra Madre Express - Tucson State of Chihuahua Transportation ALTA - Asociacion Latinoamericana de Transporte Aereo - Latin American Air Transport Association. Lowcost airlines include Click Mexicana, InterJet and Volaris. See Travel in Latin America: Cheaper and Easier by Michelle Higgins, New York Times, April 29, 2007. Chepe - Chihuahua Pacific Railroad Ferromex Last updated 20 February 2009 Copyright © 1996-2009. Digital Librarian: A Librarian's Choice of the Best of the Web. All rights reserved. May not be copied or mirrored without written permission. http://www.digital-librarian.com