 Barranca del Batopilas, Chihuahua, Mexico  |
by Philip Game
Mountains loom up from the canyon floor, dwarfing the 17th-century mission church. Cacti reach for a hot, china-blue sky; children scrabble in the dust outside the church whilst stetson-hatted figures come and go in battered utility trucks. The quintessential Mexico…
Deep inside the Sierra Madre of northern Mexico, the Copper Canyons tumble to greater depths than Arizona’s Grand Canyon. This rugged terrain, the Sierra Tarahumara, is traversed by one of the world’s most dramatic train rides. In 410 miles (660 kilometres) El Chepe, the Copper Canyon Railway, crosses 39 bridges and penetrates 86 tunnels, climbing 8,000 feet (2,400 metres) from the arid tropical plains beside the Sea of Cortez up to the high, rolling wheatfields of the Altiplano. More images
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