Our hotel is the only one in town and was right across the street from the train station hanging off a side of a multi-thousand foot cliff!!
Our room is a downstairs room....third one from the left ........
Good shot of our patio...sixth from the right....right in front was a ginormous drop off....!!!!!!
The hotel bar and restaurant in the spooky morning fog..!!
Barranca del Cobre is Spanish for Copper Canyon. Interestingly enough, there is no copper here. The name comes from a lichen that grows on the rock faces that gives the canyons a copper-green hue.
Here in Mexico the locals say the Barranca del Cobre....Copper Canyon is what the Grand Canyon in the United States wishes to be. Depending on which expert you listen to it is four to six times larger and one and a half times deeper that the Grand Canyon. The canyon was carved by six rivers meandering thru the Sierra Madres. These rivers all merged into one....the Rio Fuerte which flows to and empties into the Sea of Cortez on the west coast of Mexico.
It is a majestic place.
Come along and let us show you the
Barrance del Cobre
This is the path from our room to the bar.....the guard rail was made from extra sturdy rotten wood, rusty sheet rock screws, and reinforced broken concrete......!!
It might look stout but the guard rail behind Tana was as wobbly as a loose tooth....!!!! I told her not to lean against it...!!!!
These beautiful red barked trees grew throughout the canyon....we never saw them anywhere else....
You guys take care.....next time we'll take you for a visit with the Tarahumara Indians who are the last free living indigenous people in North America......until then....
peace to you all my friends.....
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