The Valley of the Monks in Creel is a Magical Place
Visit the Valley of the Monks with Amigo Trails tour company, the only tour operator with offices inside the Copper Canyon.
Copper Canyon: Valley of the Monks
Matteo's Moments in the Copper Canyon - The Valley of the Monks.
Mountain Biking Copper canyon Mexico
Mountain Biking Copper canyon Mexico
Creel, valley of the monk's valley of the mushrooms
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Mexico's Independence Day Parade in Creel 2012
The Creel Independence Day Parade in 2012 - Creel, Chihuahua the heart of the Copper Canyon with Amigo Trails.
360º Valley of the Monks, Mexico ⎸ 360 Honeymoon
The Valley of the Monks in Mexico's Sierra Tarahumara, Chihuahua, is revered by the local indigenous population of Rarámuri people as a symbol of fertility. The area is near Creel, a stop on the legendary El Chepe rail train that steams through the Copper Canyon - Mexico's bigger version of the Grand Canyon.
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Creel (Copper Train Part III) (4K) / Mexico Travel Vlog #246 / The Way We Saw It
Part three and last part of our Copper Canyon Expedition! We leave Divisadero and head to Creel, the touristic centre of the Barrancas del Cobre area. This area offers a lot of activities and we will take you to a bike ride into to canyons and valleys, such as the Valley of the Frogs and the Valley of the Monks, or as the locals call it, the Valley of the Erected Penises.
Join us on this day exploring Creel and the largest canyon in the world.
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Powered paragliding Chiuhuahua mexico and Copper Canyon
Powered paragliding Chiuhuahua mexico at the Fiesta del Globos (Balloon Festival), Valley of the Monks and Copper Canyon.
Copper Canyon Mexico 2016 Day 1 Utah to Chandler, AZ
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CREEL TO BATAPOLIS
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Visit the Copper Canyon in 'Amigo Style'
Enjoying an Amigo Deluxe Discada at a valley overlook in San Ignacio in the Copper Canyon
Visit Lake Arareko in the Copper Canyon
Visiting Lake Arareko outside Creel in the Copper Canyon with Amigo Trails & The 3 Amigos.
El Chepe in September: Magical train ride through the Sierra Tarahumara and Barranca del Cobre
El Chepe is the only land connection between Los Mochis and Chihuahua, with 37 bridges and 86 tunnels.
It is highly recommended to start the trip at Los Mochis or El Fuerte as the journey from El Fuerte to Bahuichivo is the most spectacular, and when traveling from Chihuahua to Los Mochis, you will reach it at the end of the day or even night time in winter, especially if the train is delayed, which is quite common.
A word of warning:
you can only buy your train tickets at Los Mochis and Chihuahua. All the other train stations on the way DO NOT SELL tickets! You may buy your ticket directly in the train if the train has space, which it usually does.
The official site has phone numbers that rarely answer and email addresses that do not reply.
Several websites offer online tickets but may be a scam (which may be reported on
We visited right after hurricane Newton in September 2016, at the end of an heavy rain season. End of September is probably one of the best time of the year to visit with the most spectacular views and few visitors. The exuberant nature, with abundant vegetation and numerous waterfalls, even up to the canyons’ ridges, amidst fantastic rock formations give a dreamy, surreal dimension to the landscape.
The best way to fully enjoy the views is through the windows between the wagons.
La mejor manera de disfrutar plenamente de las vistas es por las ventanas entre los vagones.
Some of the highlights on the way:
Located past El Fuerte (km 781), over the Rio Fuerte and overlooking Lake Huites (Luis Donaldo Colosio Dam), Agua Caliente Bridge is the longest bridge of El Chepe 498.m with a height of 46 m.
Temoris offers multiple views of one of the best waterfalls, with a succession of three 180° loops.
Traveling to Copper Canyon, take your time and allow several stops on the way.
We recommend: Bahuichivo (for Cerocahui and Urique), Barrancas/Divisadero and Creel.
There are many frequent, inexpensive and comfortable buses between Bahuichivo and Creel, so you are much better off travelling by road on that section.
Bahuichivo: Cerocahui, Cerro de Gallegos, Urique
Cerocahui is a charming little village with a mission in an alpine setting. In the lovely hotel Jade, Francia and Alberto welcome their guest in a friendly convivial atmosphere.
A 30 minutes walk by a river in serene meadows and pine forest leads to a couple of cascades that dry out after the rainy season (June to September).
Cerro de Gallegos, overlooks the Urique Canyon, the deepest within Copper Canyon at close to 2,000 meters.
The descent to Urique is not for the faint of heart, but well worth the adrenaline surge, going down from alpine pine forests to mangoes, peanuts and papayas along narrow, beaten down dirt roads.
Barrancas / Divisadero - Sierra Tarahumara
Located at the junction of three canyons, Del Cobre, (Copper Canyon) Urique Canyon, and Tararecua, Barrancas and Divisadero are the most touristic areas of copper canyons with luxury hotels hanging from the cliffs, an adventure Park with a 2,800 mt tram ride and zipline (3rd single longest span in the world) and rappelling over the cliff.
A few km cliff edge trail offers numerous bluffs with bird’s eye views of the canyons.
Tarahumara arts & craft; gorditas and other delicious street food at the Divisadero train station.
Creel
The Pueblo Magico of Creel is a short drive to Arareko Lake, Cusárare falls and many strange rock formations such as elephant rock, frog rocks, mushroom rocks and Valley of the Monks or Bisabirachi - which really means “valley of the erect penises” in Raramuri.
The Basaseachi waterfalls, one of the highest in Mexico, with a drop of over 246 mts are at a full day ride from Creel. We were greeted by a magnificent rainbow as we neared the bottom of the canyon after a steep and rocky descent.
Basaseachic Falls, Mexico WOW is an understatement!
Video of the Basaseachic Waterfalls in Mexico. 807 foot drop onto the floor of the Copper Canyons. Amazing site and sound!
Zip line ride across the Copper Canyon in Chihuahua Mexico
Cascada de Basaseachi
Vista desde La Ventana
Agosto 2016
Cusarare Waterfall
The Cusarare Waterfall sits outside Sierra Lodge Hotel in the Copper Canyon, about 30 minutes from Creel.
Camping next to the huge endless Copper Canyon, Chihuahua
Eventhough it is forbidden, I managed to set my tent without being noticed by the park employees somewhere in the path leading from the train station to the park itself... Cool huh??
Valle de los Monjes
Valle de los Monjes:
Formadas durante más de 20 Millones de años y ubicadas dentro de la Sierra Tarahumara la madre naturaleza nos regala este increíble escenario, perfecto para caminatas, excursiones y ciclismo.
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360º On board Mexico's Copper Canyon Railway ⎸ 360 Honeymoon
360º video on the tracks! Mexico's Copper Canyon Railway - actually called 'Ferrocarril Chihuahua al Pacífico' - or perhaps to you and I, 'El Chepe'. This spectacular journey is rated by many who love trains as much as they do humans as one of the most ridiculously scenic routes on all of the planet Earth. We at 360 Honeymoon can testify to that...we thought we'd really done it when we crossed America on the California Zephyr, but this El Chepe chappy took the proverbial biscuit. Without the health and safety freakery you find elsewhere, I was able to stick my entire noggin' out of the window, along with a nifty 360º camera rig, as we traveled through Chihuahua, up towards creel and into the Sierra Tarahumara. For more 360º vids on trains and elsewhere, or more about the Copper Canyon (including our ride on the World's longest zipline), or more about travel all over the world...check us the hell out why don't you babe:
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