Barranca del Cobre

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Good, local-style (Huevo Rancheros)  breakfast made us ready to kickstart the day and get into the canyon. After a 70 km asphalt road (through Creel) we arrived at the beginning of the dirt road into the canyon.

Copper Canyon is also known as "the last undiscovered nature reserve". And that is not a word too much! The very winding, dusty, muddy, rocky path brought us from an altitude of 2400 meters down to 550 meters at the bottom of the canyon. We really had to stay pretty concentrated for at times, the path was both slippery (it rained that night), 2 meters wide, and a depth of 1000 meters left from us :-) So keep it all together!

The Canyon itself is hard to describe, you should go there yourself to experience the immense magnitude of the mountains. Makes you feel very, very tiny. We were unlucky as the weather was very cloudy, so pictures are not as nice as they could have been with good weather, but still.

We spent the night in the old silver mining town Batopilas. After arrival we drank two beers, lied down for a "small nap", but did not wake up before 10 pm... the town was closed. Just a few pigs on the town square cleaning up the left behinds of the day. We were again lucky the local police chief saw us, Ben explained we needed some food, after which we could hop on his police truck and he'd drive to the other side of town where we have an excellent two-burger dinner with Coke :-)

Copper Canyon = superb! Absultely worth the detour.