Copper Canyon
We were awake early
for a short bus ride to board our train to the Copper Canyon. The
travelling time was 7 hours from El Fuerte to Creel. The views from the
train were absolutely spectacular. We were treated to 3 days of touring
the Copper Canyon and surrounding areas. The main tourist area of the
canyon has a tram crossing over to the other side of the canyon and two
separate zip lines, one has 7 shorter zip lines with 2 suspension bridges to
connect to the other side of the canyon and other is a 2.4 kilometre line with
a vertical drop of 450 meters and a 17% grade to the other side. We opted
to ride the single zip line. What an exhilarating experience it was.
The "gate" opens to launch you on your ride with a max speed at
about 130 km/h and lasts around 2 minutes. It is recorded as the longest
zip line in the world. After a short bus ride to an overnight stay at Posada
Barranca we caught the afternoon train back to El Fuerte. Definitely a highlite
of the tour so far!
After an overnight in
El Fuerte we enjoyed a sunrise bird watching tour along the El Fuerte River in
an inflatable boat followed by an amazing breakfast at the El Zorro Hotel.
Native Cave Home
Natives in colorful dresses
One of many "Mushroom" rocks
2 Km zip line "launch"
Zip line landing
Survived :)!
Waiting for the train back to El Fuerte
Sunrise river cruise
Local Petroglyphs
Zorro "want to be" - Clark
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