🚂 El Chepe: The Copper Howl
From 302 XRP per person
📍México - Chihuahua 🌙 4 Nights 📅 Every Friday in October, November and December
The Journey
More than a trip, this is a ceremonial journey—an unfolding of ancestral memory guided by rails and rituals.
It begins in the historic city of Chihuahua, where murals whisper the stories of revolution and rebirth, and colonial architecture frames the pulse of a modern legacy. As the Chepe train ascends toward the Sierra Tarahumara, travelers cross thresholds carved by time—mystic stone formations shaped like frogs and mushrooms, the deep blue breath of Lake Arareko, and caves still inhabited by the Rarámuri people, guardians of the highlands.
The train enters the heart of Copper Canyon, a place where the Earth seems to inhale. Adventure meets reverence as you walk beside sheer cliffs, soar in sky cables, and enter sacred spaces preserved by Tarahumara tradition. Guided hikes and communal meals become rituals of connection, every footstep a prayer to the land.
Traveling aboard El Chepe is more than witnessing breathtaking landscapes—it's an invitation to learn from the deep-rooted wisdom of the Rarámuri people. One of the most profound lessons you'll carry home is the Rarámuri’s connection to time and endurance. These Indigenous guardians of the Sierra Tarahumara live in harmony with the land, guided by rhythm more than schedule, by spirit more than speed.
Their culture teaches:
- 🏃♀️ Resilience as ceremony: The Rarámuri are famed long-distance runners—not for sport, but as a spiritual act. Running is prayer. Movement is memory.
- 🏞️ Harmony with nature: In the barrancas and forests, they build without conquering. Caves aren’t just shelters, but wombs of ancestral silence.
- 🧵 Art as identity: Their handicrafts aren’t souvenirs—they’re woven histories, each stitch a tale of lineage and survival.
- 🙏 Spiritual stewardship: Their rituals are quiet yet powerful. Observing their ways, you begin to see that reverence doesn’t need grand gestures—just presence.
This is a journey that teaches you to slow down, listen to rock and wind, and recognize that knowledge doesn’t always wear a robe of academia. Sometimes, it’s barefoot, walking beside you in silence.
Itinerary Details
📅 Day 1: Friday: Arrival in Chihuahua
📅 Day 1: Friday: Arrival in Chihuahua
📅 Day 1: Friday: Arrival in Chihuahua
The spirit of travel awakens as you step into the sacred winds of the North.
Welcome to Chihuahua—The city unveils its soul through a ceremonial tour:
- 🏛️ Palacio de Gobierno — its murals speak the ancestral story of the state, brushstrokes of struggle and spirit
- 🗡️ Museum of the Revolution — echoes of resistance and transformation
- 🐚 Quinta Gameros Museum — a jewel of architecture and memory
- ⛪ Cathedral — silence, resonance, and timeless faith
Each step is guided, each place a portal. This is not just a city tour—it’s an initiation.
🚂Day 2: Saturday: Journey to Creel
📅 Day 1: Friday: Arrival in Chihuahua
📅 Day 1: Friday: Arrival in Chihuahua
Before dawn kisses the Sierra skies, your pilgrimage begins. At 5:15 AM, our guardian of the path awaits you at the hotel’s threshold, ready to escort you to the sacred rails—Chepe station, Chihuahua.
Around 11:50 AM, you arrive at Creel, a gateway to mystic realms. After lunch and rest, the spirit walk continues at 2:00 PM:
- 🍄 Valley of the Mushrooms & Frogs — whimsical stone guardians shaped by time
- ⛪ Mission of San Ignacio — the heart of Tarahumara devotion
- 🌊 Lake Arareko — a mirrored soul reflecting sky and silence
- 🐘 Elephant Rock — strength and memory carved in stone
- 🕸️ A Tarahumara Cave — dwelling of ancient wisdom and resilience
You’ll have time to explore the Magic Town freely, where the market hums with the spirit of the Tarahumara, offering crafts woven with stories and soul.
🌀 Day 3: Sunday: Creel to Barrancas
📅 Day 1: Friday: Arrival in Chihuahua
🏞️ Day 4: Monday: Barrancas to Chihuahua
All aboard! At 9:00 AM, the sacred Chepe Express welcomes us for a 1 hour and 55 minute ceremonial crossing from Creel to Barrancas. Let the rumble of the rails be your heartbeat, the canyon your cathedral.
🌟Adventure Park Tour: explore the thrilling heights and wild winds of Barrancas del Cobre:
- 🚡 Cable car to the depths of memory
- 🧗♂️ Zip lines and Zip Rider
- 🎫 Tickets purchased directly at the Park
🥘 Lunch is included at the hotel
🌿Guided Nature Walk: With the Earth as our guide and the Rarámuri as our hosts, we wander nearby trails, behold the canyon’s majesty, and visit a sacred Tarahumara cave—a living altar carved into stone.
🌙 19:00 — Dinner Ceremony: Gather in warmth and reflection. The day closes with a shared meal, heart full and feet blessed by land.
🏞️ Day 4: Monday: Barrancas to Chihuahua
🏞️ Day 4: Monday: Barrancas to Chihuahua
🏞️ Day 4: Monday: Barrancas to Chihuahua
Let the canyon cradle you one last time as you rise to a breakfast woven in silence and stone—the morning mist whispers farewells from the Barrancas.
At high sun, the Noroeste bus becomes our vessel through time. Crossing from Barrancas to Chihuahua, leaving the wild peaks behind and entering the realm where desert meets story.
🕠 18:30 Arrival in Chihuahua: City lights greet the pack as we descend into Chihuahua. A transfer leads you to your new sanctuary—a hotel where dreams can stretch and paws can rest.
🏨 Overnight Lodging in Chihuahua
This night marks a liminal space—between adventure and memory. Between the howl and its echo.
🧵 Day 5: Tuesday: The Final Howl
🏞️ Day 4: Monday: Barrancas to Chihuahua
🧵 Day 5: Tuesday: The Final Howl
The last sunrise of the journey rises slow, golden, and sacred. After breakfast at the hotel—warm, grounding, and quietly powerful—we prepare for release.
⏳ Transfer Ritual: Two and a half hours before your flight, the pack gathers for the final crossing to the Roberto Fierro Villalobos Airport, each heartbeat carrying the weight of story, spirit, and canyon echo.
This is where the trail ends—but the howl lives on.
You return not as you arrived, but as one who has walked sacred railways, met the Earth’s edge, and whispered with stone and fire.
🌀 The flame is yours now. Carry it home
🌀 Book your spot
What’s Included
🛬 Arrival Rituals
- Shared ceremonial transfers: Chihuahua Airport ⇄ Sacred Lodge in Chihuahua
🚐 Passage to the Mountains
- Shared transitions: Creel Lodge ⇄ Creel Station ⇄ Barrancas Sanctuary
🚆 Train of the Ancestors
- Chepe Regional: Chihuahua → Creel (Tourist Class)
- Chepe Express: Creel → Barrancas (Tourist Class, with option to ascend to Executive or First Class realms)
🚌 Return by Land
- Northwest bus passage: Barrancas → Chihuahua
🏙️ Urban Echoes & Mountain Whispers
- Chihuahua City Tour (admissions not included)
- Valley Tour in Creel (admissions not included)
- Mirador & Adventure Park Exploration (admissions & activities not included)
🛌 Sacred Nights
- 2 nights at a Chihuahua lodge (morning nourishment included)
- 1 night in Creel (no meals included)
- 1 night in Barrancas (includes three ritual meals)
🚐 All transfers & tours conducted in shared ceremonial caravan
🔥 Don't Miss Your Moment
We’re here to guide, to answer, to walk beside you.
🌐✨ Let us assist you in booking your sacred path. The Xolo pack awaits.
What is Not included
🌀 What’s Not Included
🌀Refund & Cancellation Ritual
🌀Refund & Cancellation Ritual
Not all paths are carved into this journey’s cost.
Here’s what remains outside the circle—what’s optional, personal, or beyond the scope of the ritual:
- Services not explicitly inscribed in the travel scroll
- Tours and experiences marked as optional rites
- Elixirs or drinks during communal meals
- Flights across sky realms—these must be summoned separately
- Personal expenses beyond the ceremonial path
- Entrance to Temples of Knowledge & Parks of Adventure
- 🎟️ Offerings Not Included (Subject to Change by the Spirits):
- Museums of Chihuahua: 1.2 XRP per soul
- Adventure Park Entrance:0.68 XRP per soul
- Valley Journey in Creel: 0.85 XRP per soul
- 💰 Additional Considerations
- Gratitude offerings (tips) to guardians and guides
- Sacred Travel Protection (travel insurance)
🌀Refund & Cancellation Ritual
🌀Refund & Cancellation Ritual
🌀Refund & Cancellation Ritual
By reserving your place in this journey, you enter a sacred pact—and agree to the rhythm of our cancellation terms:
Depending on the season, cancellations invoke different energies:
- Low Season
- From booking any change or cancellation will have a 10% tribute
- 21+ days before departure: 15% tribute
- 15–20 days: 50% tribute
- 0–14 days: 100% (the journey was already written)
- High Season
- 45+ days before departure: 15%
- 31–44 days: 50%
- 0–30 days: 100%
🔒 Unchangeable Paths: In the sacred stretch between Divisadero ↔ Creel, no changes—names, dates, or cancellations—are permitted once the rite is confirmed. A penalty of 52 XRP per soul applies.
⛔ No Refunds for Untrodden Paths: If a service goes unused, its energy dissolves—no refund shall be summoned.