Think of yourself aged 10-12 years. What did you dream then, who wanted to be where they wanted to necessarily go? Most likely, the thoughts that swarmed in my head, are very different from yours. The only difference is that I still find the place a dream. One of them is a fast ride on the Mexican Copper Canyon.
Do not rush to smile - I do regularly pay for psychological counseling in Kharkiv and my therapist thinks I am quite normal. The reason for my obsession (to travel the whole world) lies in the love of nature.
For example, the Copper Canyon in Mexico for a long time been out of reach for most people in the world. The only people who until the middle of the XX century was able to get there, the Indians were indigenous Tarahumara. Complicate recovery numerous gorges, cliffs, broken mountain ranges. Translate dreams into reality was only the engineers who created a rail connection between Los Mochis and Chihuahua. Price century building - 90 years and spent 90 million dollars. Agree to such a place worth visiting?
Length of the railway is 670 km - with 37 bridges, 86 tunnels, steep ascents and descents. The magnificent landscapes are to travel, before which the Copper Canyon is interesting spectacle. On the way there are waterfalls, mountain lakes, suddenly give way to deep gorges. The path takes about 15 hours - hours of happiness and joy.
The process turns into a fun adventure. Passengers crowd with cameras waiting in line at the open windows between the cars. During breakfast, accompanied introduced in the course of what the tourists to see. In place of rural villages and rivers come the fields of giant cacti, red rock and pine. Copper Canyon got its name not because of mineral deposits, but because of the many green lichen covering the slopes.
Canyon is home to hermits Tarahumara, lodging in caves and small huts. Civilization here and does not smell - in the fields ripen the harvest, national clothing, communication between the villages provide couriers. Tourists buy them gift baskets, pottery, drums. It offers live in the present Indian camp, participate in ancient ceremonies and dances. In downtown Posada Barrancas travelers waiting for lunch, and morning train back on the familiar route.
Short, it's steeper than Coca-Cola, Home (Kharkiv will understand me) and the Black Sea together. Do not believe me? And you go there!