The reason to come to this part of Mexico is the Copper Canyon Train. A 14 hour journey marketed as the most spectacular in the world- it is amazing. The Copper Canyon itself is massive, the biggest and deepest in the world. 
It dwarfs the Grand Canyon but it is so big you don't get any sense of scale. The journey itself is through verdant countryside that at times looks like Switzerland- a shock for someone bought up on Spaghetti Westerns. The train edges up the Canyon twisting and turning only to be a few meters above the track it was on half an hour ago. At one stage it does a 360 degree loop 
A street trader managed to get rid of some counterfeit notes in my change. I was stuck with them because they where so obviously fake, most of the pattern had rubbed off. The train conductor wanted the right money for our tickets and had spotted the notes in my wallet. I showed him that they were counterfeit but he said it didn't matter and accepted them!!
Its great to be out of the heat that was over bearing on the coast
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