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Bird Watching in El Fuerte

Bird Watching on the Rio Fuerte is featured in a new video from a recent Authentic Copper Canyon trip. This is an amazing way to spend a morning. First of all the river is placid and quiet. Then you begin to see a bird here and onother there- actually I usually doin’t see them but Rafael [...]

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Bison at Rancho Uno

North of the Copper Canyon area theChihuahuan Desert stretches for miles and miles up into the US. Near the town of Janos, The Nature Conservancy runs a 40,000 acre place called Rancho Uno.

This place is quiet, vast, captivating and our Authentic Copper Canyon groups are beginning to use this place as a first stop. The is [...]

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A Little Serenade on the Bus in Copper Canyon

Usually we take a bus or van out of Copper Canyon because the train schedule is very late getting into Chihuahua City. It gives a different view of the open land as you come out of the Sierras.
So we are comimg out a few weeks ago and at various stops along the way a burrito [...]

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More on the Birdman of Ocolome

Rafael shows us tons of medicinal palnts in Copper Canyon

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Bird Watching in El Fuerte

I call him “The Bird Man of Ocolome”.
His name is Rafael. He is Ocolome Indian from thelittle village of Ocolome, and as he sits at the rear of the boat, you soon realize you are in the presence of a treasure-house of knowledge. Like he knows every plant and bird we are encountering.
So, we are [...]

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