Kaleidoscope Travel & Cruise

Article Published: January 28th, 2006

Topolobampo is a beautiful seaport located 20 km from Los Mochis in the state of Sinaloa, Mexico, this was our third port of call on our 10 day Mexican Riviera and Sea of Cortez group cruise in November of 2005. Topolobampo is on a deep-water bay in the Sea of Cortez. It is also the gateway to the region’s most spectacular attraction “The Copper Canyon”.There were 14 people in our group that choose to visit the canyon – we met in the theatre at 4:00am along with 322 other passengers, at 5:00am we boarded buses and traveled to El Forte, at 7:00am we made our way onto the South Orient Express Train for our 6 hour train journey to the Copper Canyon. Wow! It is one of the world’s greatest engineering feats – 39 bridges, 87 tunnels and hundreds of miles of rail spanning the most rugged and remote terrain imaginable. It also offered us incredible views of raging rivers, waterfalls and sub-tropical forests. The Copper Canyon is four times larger than the Grand Canyon, it is actually a massive maze of 200 gorges that combine to form a series of canyons covering more than 25,000 square miles. We had an hour to view the canyon and take many photo’s. We were then taken to lunch at the hotel. We left the Copper Canyon at 3:00pm and began our 6 hour train trip back to El Forte and then the 2 hour bus ride back to Topolobampo. The captain was on the pier to greet the weary travels on our return, along with many crew members with hot face cloths, juice and water. Once on board we were treated to a midnight buffet. It was a very long day and tiring day but well worth the once in a lifetime experience.

Entry Filed under: Mexican Riviera, Mexico