http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Chihuahua/Bocoyna/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from North America , Mexico , Chihuahua , Bocoyna en-us Mon, 06 Oct 2008 20:34:05 BST Mon, 06 Oct 2008 20:34:05 BST holaSo the other night we went out for a few drinks at the local watering hole nothing serious just relaxing and sharing travel tales with people from around the world. we sauntered back to our hostel where we were sleeping in bunk beds. after taking the bottom bunk for the whole trip so far I took the top to let Craig have the bottom. A few hours later i awoke in the cold canyon night and had http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/Mexico/Chihuahua/Bocoyna/Creel/blog-134376.html we strapped on our backpacks and hiked across the border into Juarez. We exchanged our money and stuffed it into our boots then Kevin negotiated a price for a cab ride to the bus station. This was Sunday June 18 2006. Sunday by bus We got to the station just in time to jump on a bus to Chihuahua grabbing a ham and cheese torta and some chips and water at the station for our ride. Five http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/Mexico/Chihuahua/Bocoyna/Creel/blog-108990.html From Zacatecas we had another mammoth journey in total 17 hours of travel first was the 11 hour bus ride north to Chihuahua famous for the midget dogs We had an hours wait with the usual assortment of wierdos in the bus station at 4.30 am then another 5 hours bus trip West to Creel a small railway town surrounded by mountain in the middle of some of the most amazing scenery Ive ever seen. S http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/Mexico/Chihuahua/Bocoyna/Creel/blog-107843.html I LOVE TRAVELING. anyone have any questions so far haha From the 19th to the 26th I was traveling with the fabulous exchange students of Rotary District 4150.First took a bus to Tepic from Vallarta joined up with the students there took a bus to Mazatlan where we met up with ALL the exchange students going 53. We hung around until 11 at night and arriving at about noon we had a lot of ti http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/Mexico/Chihuahua/Bocoyna/Creel/blog-106241.html Creel in the state of Chihuahua is a town that seems to exist purely as a base for tourists who come to explore the surrounding country which is full of canyons and mountains valleys and settlements of indigenous people. The town is strung out along one street with its plaza at one end with everpresent church and otherwise consisting almost entirely of accomodation for tourists restaurant http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/Mexico/Chihuahua/Bocoyna/Creel/blog-79778.html Left Quito for a huge day of flights first Quito to Mexico City with a 1 hr stop in Panama City then to Chihuahua in northern Mexico. Chihuahua is very remote slap bang in the middle of the desert and produced a fabulous pinkorange sunset as I sat in my taxi from the airport to the hotel. We splashed out a bit on a room at the Holiday Inn and the most exciting thing for me was the fact that http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/Mexico/Chihuahua/Bocoyna/Creel/blog-61604.html