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Our 2012 trips,including New Years in Copper Canyon
People often ask me what time of year is best for train trips to Copper Canyon. That is a hard one to answer because each season has its own draw. Let me say that I do not recommend June ( both hot AND dry). But all other times of the year are great. Here are [...]
Full StoryTop Ten Reasons to Travel the Copper Canyon Train
This great place awaits curious travelers now …and what a joy it is to be able to introduce our guests to its wonders: 1. Copper Canyon is so huge. 2. The Rarámuri or Tarahumara- the indigenous people. 3. The train through Copper Canyon- CHEPE. 4. The little towns – the heart of rural Chihuahua. 5. [...]
Full StoryJilo and 500 Pesos
I drop by Jilo Mancinas’ little hovel of a house in Areponapuchi. The front area serves as a garden, grazing area for Jilos ponies and parking for his beat up little pickup. Jesinia comes to the door. The pure beauty of this little girl flows. She and her sister Daniela live here with there parents. [...]
Full StoryCulinary Trip to Copper Canyon
The delicious foods of the Norteño region around Copper Canyon have long intrigued and satisfied me on our train trips there. So one day I was on the train rolling up toward the mountains from the west. And I thought- the foods of this place are one of the real highlights- and people really enjoy [...]
Full StoryOur Team in Copper Canyon: Gustavo Lozano
He is quiet…he is unassuming …and he is our mainstay in the heart of Copper Canyon. I met this skilled guide on the train one day as it rolled up through Copper Canyon. I saw him at a distance talking with some guests. Perhaps I have an aversion to guides who talk all the time [...]
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 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 StoryCelso at Don Cuco Sotol
Celso Jaquez and his family are the 4th generation at their hacianda near Janos (north of Copper Canyon) to be distilling sotol under the name “Don Cuco“. Most people are not familiar with sotol, but it is truly THE drink of Chihuahua, being made from the sotol plants that grow in this high desert. As [...]
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The unique foods of the Norteño area and Copper Canyon include the lovely and fragrant squash blossoms….flor de calabacitas. They are harvested in the late summer time when the rains push the brown/tan valleys and mountains into a verdant miracle. The Fall is a great time for The Blue Corn Express culinary trip for [...]
Full StoryMexico Culinary Trip…with the Copper Canyon Train!
The premier “Blue Corn Express” is shaping up for next October, and I really look forward to it. The norteno foods- the cuisine of Copper Canyon- have become a passion of mine and this trip will be a full immersion into those kitchens and markets that make it so delicious. The freshness of the foods and [...]
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