South & Central America
Highlights - Essential Info - Itineraries
- Mexico City
- The Yucatan Peninsula
- Oaxaca
- Copper Canyon
- The Baja Peninsula and Whale Watching
- Chiapas
Copper Canyon
At four times the volume of the Grand Canyon in the USA, Mexico's Copper Canyon is one of the largest canyon systems in the world. This vast network of gullies, gorges and canyons in Mexico's north western Sierra Madre Occidental Mountains, includes over 19 named canyons and is home to thousands of Tarahumara (Raramuri) Indians and ranchers scattered amongst picturesque villages, rivers and pine forests. Just a short distance south of the U.S. border, the Copper Canyon is still surprisingly untouched by the modern world.
It is here that you can make your way to the Chihuahua-Pacífico train station in order to board the famous Chepe train for one of the most fascinating and dramatic train journeys in the world.







