Curated Recommendations
Tons of links to, and recommendations about, excursions, lodging, sights, museums, restaurants, buses, trains, gear, books, ferries and ships as we travel all the world’s seven continents. Nothing is on the list unless we personally recommend it. Ongoing updates. Select your preference below …
Villa Mexicana
“Enjoy the Sierra of Chihuahua.
Spacious equipped cabins and a landscape that offers amazing daily views when looking through the window. Enjoying with your family, partner or friends at the Villa Mexicana hotel can become an experience you will never forget.
The Villa Mexicana Creel Mountain Lodge is an important meeting point, a private place with exquisite charm in the decoration, two fireplaces and mountain views. Just a few meters away you will find our restaurant "La Fonda" and our bar "La Cantina" where we have a la carte and buffet food; In our bar, we have live entertainment and sport events transmitted on our HD screens.”
El Chepe Express
“Over 9 hours, the train travels more than 350 km (220 miles) departing from Los Mochis, Sinaloa up to Creel, Chihuahua, a Magical Town (Pueblo Mágico) in the heart of the Sierra Tarahumara, passing through the majestic Copper Canyon.
Cross one of the most imposing mountain range of Mexico through bridges and tunnels, gems of Mexican engineering. All in an environment designed to pamper you with our excellent staff and the comfort of our Express service.
If that’s what you wish, you can stop and explore any of the 5 destinations to discover what is beyond the canyons.
Enjoy a once in a lifetime trip.”
Mama Espinoza’s
Mama Espinoza’s Restaurant is a paean to the Baja 1000; plastered head to toe with inscribed banners, pictures and posters of trucks and dune buggies and motorcycles showing off names like Jorgensen Racing, Vortex, Enduro, Larry Ragland. Brightly colored rally shirts drape themselves from the ceiling. Every kind of liquor and wine stands on shelves above the cash register.
Juan’s Racing Bar and Grill
“A popular hang-out for locals and travelers on the malecon of the Mulege River.
Everyone is welcome including those who still get away with drag-racing along the malecon! A laid-back, hang-out where travelers meet locals in a great location!”