From the Sea to the Desert

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Mexican trip second part!!!
















This picture is there just to remind me of the
peace of haven I found on my travels.....

Although La Paz was indeed a very nice place, with beautiful beaches, great hosts, nice night life....what can I say....it was all perfect, but the road was calling me.
I spent my last days visiting the beaches, and I was invited to go wake boarding with Noah ( a couch surfer from San Fran, currently living in La Paz) and his friends. We took the speed boat to the bay in front of La Paz and had heaps of fun trying to do all those nice looking things people do when being dragged by a boat with a surf board attached to their legs :)




























Wake boarding right of the coast of Baja California.
Here I watched one of the most beautiful sundowns
that can be found in Mexico (La Paz)


It was all fun...but I have a long way ahead of me, so on Thursday early in the morning I was on the ferry that was headed across Cortez sea.



Street taco stands, the place where people go for food hunting and gathering (Los Mochis)


I arrived in Los Mochis only to spend the night before catching the Copper Train in the nearby city of El Fuerte. This is one of the most beautiful train rides in the world. It takes you from the coast, into the mountains through Copper Canyon that is as big as 5 Grand Canyons and than further to the Chiuhauha desert, the biggest one in North America.




























Breath taking views of the canyon form the train





















In the rain with random french travelers
that flowed me on my Urique ride! (Bauchivo)


I stopped in Bauchivo where I was greeted by my first Mexican rain while waiting for a three hour jiggering ride to the deepest of canyons, the Urique Canyon. Urique is a God forgotten place in the middle of nowhere . The only thing that makes this place interesting is the ride here.
















The bus (that looks like an american school bus from the 80's with 4WD) takes you from an initial 1600 m to 2200m and then descends to a final altitude of 550m. The views are incredible, all that spiced with a (unreasonable) fear of the bus rolling over from the unpaved road, and cows running in front of the bus, and locals (completely uninterested in the show) with whom you share the ride that are scowling at the constant clicking of the (three) tourist cameras on the bus.




























The sun was not in a favorable position
for taking photos, but you get the idea :)

We returned to Bauchivo next morning and cached the train that would take us to Creel, My end station on Copper train. On the train I meet a cool English girl Nicola with whom I’ve been traveling since.
We spent two days in Creel in an inexpensive hostel called Margaritas (80 pesos for a dorm with diner and breakfast). I took the lonely walk to the nearby lake the next day . The last day there we tried to reach the waterfall , but the chain on the rented bike seamed to be having it’s last breath so we headed back after just an hour of nice landscapes….never did make it to that water fall…..















Exploring Chihuahua! :)

Next stop was Chihuahua, the capital of the Mexican state with the same name where we surfed a couch at Koko’s place. We spent the next days in Chihuahua guided by our great host. We met his friends at a Mexican birthday party (where nobody dances) and learned about his city, walking the colourful streets on a lazy Sunday afternoon.
I am now in Zacatecas, a silver city 800km south of Chihuahua. A long way to go in one day. Pictures and stories about it next time.