ArchivesTag : Dave Hensleigh
Copper Canyon Gondola
Copper Canyon gondola: The new Adventure Park at Piedra Volada near Divisadero in Copper Canyon is now open and functioning. The centerpeice of this development is the gondola (or teleferico in Spanish). I have ridden on it several times going down to the saddle and back with guests over the past few months…and yes, it [...]
Full StoryApple Festival on “The Blue Corn Express” Culinary Trip
We were headed toward Copper Canyon in October on the first “Blue Corn Express” culinary trip. As we came into the village of Guerrero, there was a huge fair or festival. Turns out it was a Fall Apple festival so we made a spontaneous stop….a delicious treat. This “fair food” beats any such fare we [...]
Full StoryDave and the Authentic Copper Canyon Experience
Recently I was sitting on CHEPE with a Blue Corn Express guest having a cup of coffee. He began talking about what we do on our trips…
Full StoryFirst Culinary Trip to Copper Canyon… Delicious!
The first ever culinary trip to the Copper Canyon area went off a few weeks ago and was a huge success. We made our first stop at Don Cuco sotol near Janos and got the royal tour, a grand lunch around the table in the family hacienda, and had the chance to pick up some [...]
Full StoryOur Team in Copper Canyon: The Jovial Alberto Lopez
A phone conversation with Alberto Lopez. I was on the phone last night with Alberto Lopez. He was in his home/lodge on the square in the tiny town of Cerocahui. I was all hot to trot about telling him of our arrival there in a few days with our first culinary trip, “The Blue Corn [...]
Full StoryContray to popular belief, not all canyons were created equal.
Now, don’t get me wrong- that canyon in Arizona is beyond belief. In my view it is fully deserving of all the crowds, the grand photos and books, the soul sweeping symphony, and so much more. I sat there at Grand Canyon transfixed at sunrise, mid-day, and evening. Amid the chatter of Japanese and the [...]
Full StoryWhat do we mean, “Authentic”?
Authentic? Authentic is according to dictionary.com “not false or copied; genuine; real: an authentic antique”. I used the word authentic as the first word in the name of this company because I wanted people to experience the true Copper Canyon with all the culture, history, people, and places. I wanted them to be there…not just [...]
Full StoryOur Lodges in Copper Canyon: Noritari
I love food and little neat places that are out of the way enchant me. So Norítari is a favorite of mine… and of our guests as well. It sits up in the pines above the little town of San Juanito in one of the highest altitude places we visit on the Copper Canyon train trip. [...]
Full StoryIts not groups…its groupitos
Group size? <12: And its not a trip…its an experience. Like the experience this grupito had on a recent train trip to Copper Canyon. We watched as this Tarahumara lady wove a basket and chattered quietly to he son in the Indian dialect in the tiny town of Areponápuchi. This is not an escorted bus [...]
Full StoryRafael with Medicinal Plant Brazil Tree
Another medical plant remedy from “The Birdman of Ocolome“. Here Rafael gives us a remedy for nerves, explaining that you make a tea to drink from the leaves to settle things down.
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