Posada Barrancas Mirador, where every room has a view of the canyon.

Room 51, Posada Barrancas Mirador,
c/o Hotel Santa Anita Box 159, Los Mochis Sinaloa, Mexico.

Raised by a violent geological upheaval, this colossal stone monument have long daunted the average settler. Only Mexico's cave-dwelling Tarahumara Indians have maintained a spartan existence amid the largely unexplored canyons of the Sierra Madre. Yet travelers lacking even weekend survival skills may now luxuriate in the heart of these treacherous terrain, thanks to the Posada Barrancas Mirador, a sumptuous outpost overlooking the dizzying depths of Copper Canyon. And how to journey there?

Simply find a window seat and watch the landscape breeze by on the Chihuahua al Pacifico railway, a phenomenal 90-year construction project boasting 36 bridges and 87 tunnels. After pulling out of Chihuahua City, your train will climb more than 8000 feet, snaking between lofty mountains and vast gorges. Once you reach the Posada and are perched in bed high above the fray, those indelicate cliffs outside your window, shimmering under the sun's final rays, will be tranformed into a gentle paradise.

Matthew Fox

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