If you love spectacular rail journeys, Mexico holidays & rail tours to Copper Canyon include ‘El Chepe’ train tickets, giving you the opportunity to travel through this magnificent combination of six river systems and twenty canyons, which together are larger than the Grand Canyon.
The Copper Canyon is situated in northwest Mexico, between the city of Chihuahua in the central region and Los Mochis on the Gulf of California. With its width, depth and sheer jaw-dropping grandeur, Copper Canyon National Park is truly awe inspiring, with mountainous copper-green rock walls which provide its iconic name.
The Chihauhua al Pacifico Railway – commonly known as the ‘El Chepe’ train– is one of the classic rail tours of the world. It runs for 400 miles over 39 bridges and through 86 tunnels, rising 2,500 metres onto the Sierra Tarahumara and is a stunning railway engineering achievement. It is actually a regular computer train which runs daily in each direction so you can get off and on where you like, for as long as you like, on Mexico holidays & rail tours to Copper Canyon, with El Chepe train tickets. This also gives the villagers the opportunity to lay out and sell their food and crafts to the passengers. The train is comfortable and air conditioned with a snack bar available.
Chihuahua is the eastern gateway to the Copper Canyon. Although rather run down, it has a beautiful cathedral and some interesting museums. You can get El Chepe train tickets from here, or travel overland to Creel, situated close to the canyon’s highest point and where the real scenery begins. You can then join the train here or in the small hamlet of Divisadero, for the most spectacular part of the trip. Creel is a well equipped tourist centre and the base for adventure activities in the Copper Canyon. You can also visit the Valley of the Frogs, Valley of the Mushrooms and Valley of the Monks, where the volcanic and sedimentary rock layers have been eroded over millennia into uncannily familiar shapes, on Mexico holidays & rail tours to Copper Canyon, with El Chepe train tickets.
Most people disembark in El Fuerte, with its attractive colonial buildings and fort, although the train continues to Los Mochis on the coast. From here, the glorious beaches of the Baja Peninsula are within easy reach.
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