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 by EmilioR
A Tarahumara festival.
Chihuahua State Tourism
A colorful mural at Divisadero's Posada Mirador Hotel honors the Tarahumara people.The Easter Week (Semana Santa) festival is a particularly colorful and moving celebration that the Tarahumara graciously share with visitors who demonstrate respect for this solemn spiritual occasion spread over a number of days. They do not share many of their ceremonies, so this is indeed a privilege to be cherished. A new interest in such quickly-disappearing customs and spiritual traditions and a growing interest in this still-pristine wilderness have encouraged small-scale tourism operators and lodgings to spring up in the past decade. Both small group tours and independent travel require advance planning because accommodations and English-speaking guides are still relatively limited. Leave a Comment
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 paquime by EmilioR
Casas Grandes is found in a valley without vegetation on a surface of more than 50 hectares; its buildings and ceremonial monuments were constructed with clay using a system of percolated mud.
Our curiosity is immediately aroused by the small, T-shaped doors; we don't know if they were made this way for security or for ceremonial purposes.
Aside from the living area, another unusual feature of this site, compared to others in the region, is the presence of a ceremonial center, a funeral mound, various ball courts and El Monticulo de la Cruz, a small hill with the cardinal points of the compass sculpted in raised adobe, showing the customary variation of 11 degrees from Magnetic North.
Beautiful ceramics with geometric patterns that were found on Paquime are currently on display at the museum, designed by the renowned architect Mario Schetinan, who won an international prize for its harmonious integration with the landscape.
Near Casas Grandes you can visit the Cueva de la Olla, where human rests and paintings were found. Leave a Comment
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 Peñita paradise by EmilioR
This tourist center is managed by 43 women who own this land. It has 11 rustic comfortable and spacious cabins with two full-sized beds each, a small living room and a fireplace. These two-level wooden cabins are strategically located around the dam.
The visitor can enjoy the view, surrounded by pine trees and healthy climate as well as go fishing for trout, carp or other fish on the dam, or walk the streets of the town of Madera which is only 10 kilometers away from this complex.
This picturesque town is at the beginning of the mountain range west of Chihuahua City and 364 kilometers from the state capital. Time has stopped in this town full of magical history. Madera used to be a sawmill center that presently combines the old west architecture with a colonial aura. The beautiful San Pedro Cathedral is just one of the attractions here. There are also restaurants with exquisite local food, discotheques, handicraft stores and museum.
Other tourist attractions in the region are the archeological ruins of Cueva Grande, Cueva del Puente, Conjunto Anasazi, La Rancheria and Cuarenta Casas or Cueva de las Ventanas. The cave belonged to the "pinineos" (short indigenous people); its main attraction is the lollipop-shaped doors no more than a meter high. Another attraction is walking through the surrounding historic haciendas such as Sirupa or San Jose de Babicora, or visiting some of the areas natural beauties such as the El Salto waterfall, the Tes Lagoon, the Canyon of the Huapoca River or the Chinacas Mirador and going into the thermal waters of the Huapoca river is a must. Leave a Comment
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 the tarahumaras by EmilioR
Most of the world knows them only as long distance runners. Living in high altitudes, they have developed tremendous lung capacity and in more primitive times hunted deer and mountain goats, running them down on foot. In more modern times, they have run non-stop in relay teams from Chihuahua City to El Paso, a distance of 230 miles, to open the Pan-American Road Races.
However, this running ability is only one facet of their life style. The truly remarkable thing about them is an ancient religion which has bred into them a moral code so strict that they are unable to tell a lie.
Psychologists suggest that over the centuries this value system has actually caused physiological changes in their brain that preclude speaking anything but the truth. Nor can they cheat or fail to aid a fellow tribesman. Leave a Comment
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 arareko lake by EmilioR
This prodigious area offers incredible beauty to the visitor: The Arareko lagoon, the Batosarachi waterfall, the Valley of the Gods, the Valley of the Mushrooms, the Barranca del Cobre mountain passages which are refuge four cougars and deers. But above all, Arareko is full of mysterious magnetism from the ceremonies and customs of the local raramuri people. People who love their land to such extent that they say their life has no meaning without the vital strength provided by the nature surrounding them.
In Arareko you can also hire horses, boats, bicycles and experienced guides.
For the person who wants to blend with nature, there is nothing like the more than 20 thousand hectareas (124,000 square miles) of woods in Arareko, right in the middle of the Tarahumara mountain range.
There is a beautiful lake with blue waters surrounded by grey rocks, oak and pine trees. You can rent boats, go fishing and engage in water sports. Leave a Comment
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 caverns by EmilioR
Coyame is famous for its mineral springs, whose water is bottled for drinking.
1 km. south, by dirt road, you can visit the Coyame Caverns, with its 15 rooms with stalactites, stalagmites and crystallizations that only compare in beauty with the Cacahuamilpa caves in the State of Guerrero.
Nearby the town you can fish in the Conchos River and hunt at the surroundings; Thirty-one km. northeast, is situated the Peguis lookout over the canyon where the waters of the Conchos river fall forming a beautiful cascade. Leave a Comment
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 Mennonites by EmilioR
The immigration was profitable for both Mexico and the Mennonites. In Canada there had been friction between the Mennonites and the Canadian government?the Mennonites do not believe in educating their children past the sixth grade, else they become too worldly and stray from their religion, and they do not believe in serving in the military. The Mexican government was seeking farmers to settle the land which had previously been owned by William Randolph Hearst, who had been expelled from the country along with the other foreign landowners, following the Mexican Revolution. The two parties made an agreement whereby the Mennonites would purchase the land from the Mexican government and their children would be forever exempted from the educational laws of Mexico and from serving in its armed forces. In addition, the Mennonites were exempted from paying taxes for fifty years.
Today, there are around 50,000 Mennonites living in the vicinity of the city of Cuauht?moc, which is located about sixty-five miles west of the capital city of Chihuahua. They are known throughout Mexico for the fine cheeses they produce and for the wheat, corn, and oats which they grow. Leave a Comment
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4 more photosPhone: 1-888-484-1623Directions: There are many things to do, wherever you choose to stop along the way. Camping, exlporing ruins, waterfalls, backpacking, etc. etc.Website: http://www.chepe.com.mx/
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 by EmilioR
There are two participation types: Cross Country and Orientation Trial. The first one, according to international norm for Cross Country Rallies in Cars, Motorcycles and Quads. The second one, only for 4x4 vehicles equipped with GPS and Winch, like in the formula popularized by the Cup 180, although with an important innovation: the team is formed by only one car.
The Cross Country Rallies are carried out on daily stages with a maximum of 800 km (500 miles) of pure speed timed sections, eventually combined with regularity sections. They are run through dirt roads and tracks, at times of great technical difficulty, which makes it necessary to race in very tough cars with exceptional off-road qualities.
The route is secret, making it impossible for racers to practice and the only official route is the one that is described in the race’s Road-Book. In this Road-Book there are detailed schemes (changes in direction, road incidences, hazardous spots, nearby settlements and other references), total and partial distances and useful comments. Sometimes navigation data as GPS coordinates or directions are provided.
Admitted vehicles on the Cross Country Rally mode of the ¡ah, Chihuahua! Rally TT are Motorcycles, Quads, and Cars (some African races also take Heavy Trucks).
Orientation Trial mode will have the same starting and finish line as in Rally mode. Both races will share checkpoints, although in this mode the route is not established, but contestants will necessarily have to go through the checkpoints and accomplish each stage in a maximum time.
The competition will consist of localization of waypoints given by GPS coordinates and very difficult and technically demanding Trial Special Stages. Leave a Comment
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