El Fuerte Lodges - Reviews and Rates

Marisol and I decided to take a little day trip as Guasave´s sights were starting to wear a little thin. As we couldn´t actually get the train to Chihuhaha over the famous Barranca del Cobre we went for the next best thing and headed for the town of El Fuerte at the very beginning of the route. A pretty town filled with elderly Canadians and, no...

Quite unexpectedly we found that this place was far more luscious in vegetation than we'd ever imagine. We caught the train from El Fuerte and spent 8 hours slowly chugging through an overwhelming green canyon, with some quite serious drops a foot or two away from the tracks. Luckily we were going slow. But unluckily for a train quite some years...

The trip getting to El Fuerte was a bit of a mission, we arrived at the ferry terminal at 6am for the 8am ferry expecting to be able to buy tickets there however this was not the case. When we could not find a ticket office and asked where it was, a ferry worker gestured to follow him. As Alanna spoke more Spanish than me she went with him to th...

We spent a lovely day here wandering around the cobbled streets of this pretty town. As seems to be the tradition in all Mexican towns the 'Governors Palace' had a mural showing the history of the place...involves lots of men on horses with belts of bullets strapped across their chests.