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Mexico's Copper Canyon Land of the Tarahumara
Reserving Now: April 17 - 25, 2010 Call now to request your detailed brochure; this program has a history of filling well in advance!
with Barney T. Burns, Ph.D. to benefit Native Seeds/SEARCH Luxury motor coach rolling classroom roundtrip from Tucson, Arizona. Enjoy that amazing Train ride up to Barranca del Cobre!
Our first Copper Canyon tour with Barney in 2004 filled up quickly. The next, in 2007, filled in 2006. So, please don't delay your decision to join this spectacular learning experience in 2010. Please call and let us help you with any questions so you don't miss this next one. To benefit Native Seeds/SEARCH Please call for your brochure. This is a good time to plan ahead and enjoy the anticipation! Call or email Piet & Mary today for information at 520-887-2340 in Tucson.
This is a truly unique learning vacation. Don’t miss it! Copper Canyon in
Mexico’s northern Sierra Madre is known for its vast breathtaking beauty,
rugged canyons, and impressive railroad and for the people who call it home, the
Tarahumara. You may have been to Copper Canyon before, but you don’t know the
place and its people until you’ve traveled there with Dr. Barney T. Burns, who
has worked and traded with the Tarahumara for nearly 40 years. This unique learning
vacation begins in Tucson as we board our rolling classroom, a luxurious U.S.
motor coach, to travel the scenic route between Tucson and the colonial village
of El Fuerte, Sinaloa, founded in 1564. We’ll overnight right on the Sea of
Cortez at San Carlos, Sonora. We’ll travel into Copper Canyon by the most
dramatic rail journey in the Western hemisphere! Then we’ll overnight
right at canyon’s edge at Divisadero. Enjoy three nights at Creel, where
we’ll venture out to Tarahumara villages and discuss Native Seeds/SEARCH
projects and Tarahumara culture. Our coach will meet us again at Creel and
continue with more adventures en route to Tucson along the east side of the
Sierra Madre, via Casas Grandes. Barney will discuss
the Tarahumara culture in detail, plus the Yaqui, Mayo, Mennonite and Mormon
people and Casas Grandes archaeology as we pass through Sonora, Sinaloa and
Chihuahua. You will be amazed by Barney’s knowledge of Apache history in
Mexico! Short walks on uneven ground; no hiking required. What sets this program
apart is the quality of your learning experience and the knowledge and
affability of our leaders and interpreters, not to mention our guests! Reserving
now; this trip fills in advance. Call Mary & Piet at Baja’s Frontier Tours
in Tucson (520-887-2340) for your brochure today. The cost of the 2010 program is $3395 per person, double occupancy, including a $500 donation to NS/S. A limited number of single supplement/private rooms are available at an additional $655. Missed the 2007 trip? Don’t miss this! Ask us for the detailed brochure to receive your day-by-day itinerary...
You may have been to Copper Canyon before, but you don't know the place and its people until you've traveled there with Dr. Barney Burns, founder of Native Seeds/SEARCH, who's worked and traded with the Tarahumara for over 30 years.
Barney T. Burns & Mahina Drees About Barney & Mahina...In 1983, they helped found Native Seeds/SEARCH in Tucson. Barney began his work with the Tarahumara in 1969 and with the Mayo and Yaqui in 1973. A decade later, Mahina joined Barney in expanding their importing of native crafts from these people. The purpose of Unknown Mexico, their wholesale import business, is to express their passion for real-time cultural anthropology. They work to preserve the crafts and culture of the native peoples of Northwestern Mexico by creating a market in the U.S. This, in turn, offers these people the opportunity to continue traditional paths of life, supporting themselves in a small, though familiar way, with a source of cash income to supplement their subsistence agriculture, which provides no income. NS/S supports the farming. Mahina grew up in Toledo, Ohio, graduated from Antioch College and came to Tucson in 1974. She is a singer and songwriter. Barney grew up in Carlsbad, NM, studied at U of A, ultimately earning his Ph.D. in anthropology. He’s published on the Mormon colonization of northern Sonora, collected tree ring samples and documented old growth forest in Sonora and Chihuahua, and for 29 years assisted Neil Goodwin in the amazing ongoing study of the occupation of Sonora and Chihuahua by wild or free Chiricahua Apaches following the surrender of Geronimo. For a good read, check out Goodwin's Apache Diaries.
This unique learning vacation is offered one time only. Don’t miss it!
Ask us for the detailed brochure for a day-by-day itinerary... ALL INCLUDED: Roundtrip transportation in comfortable air-conditioned motor coach from Tucson (train and local transportation in Copper Canyon area); 8 hotel overnights; 13 of 25 meals; personally escorted by Barney T. Burns and Piet & Mary Van de Mark. NOT
INCLUDED:
Personal items; some meals (prices vary and are roughly comparable to U.S.);
alcoholic beverages; overnight parking fees at the Tucson departure point; trip
cancellation and other travel insurance. Features
of the 2010 program:
q Eight
nights comfortable hotel accommodations. q
Travel to & from Tucson in
luxury U.S. motor coach....our Rolling Classroom! q
That famous train ride and local transportation in
Copper Canyon. q Many very
enjoyable meals are included. q Lots of
learning, sightseeing and fun throughout. q Thrill to
one of the World’s Greatest Train Rides...more tunnels and trestles than
you can count or photograph! q Tarahumara,
Yaqui and Mayo cultural anthropology. q Learn
Mormon, Mennonite and some amazing Apache history in Chihuahua. q Archaeological
tour of Paquimé and museum at Casas Grandes, Chihuahua. q Outstanding
shopping for quality folk arts
& crafts from the Tarahumara and other artists. q Learning
throughout from Barney T. Burns, Mahina Drees and other local interpreters. q Personally
produced
and operated by Mary & Piet Van de Mark of Baja's Frontier Tours. q Support non-profit Native Seeds/SEARCH.
Tucson’s Native Seeds/SEARCH conserves, distributes and documents the adapted and diverse varieties of agricultural seeds, their wild relatives and the role these seeds play in cultures of the American Southwest and Mexico. NS/S celebrates their 25th Anniversary in 2008! www.nativeseeds.org
Piet & Mary
Van de Mark will personally produce and operate your
tour. They are life members of Native Seeds/SEARCH. Piet founded Baja’s
Frontier Tours in Tucson in 1966. Before joining BFT, Mary directed
Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum's study tours for 14 years. BFT offers Personalized
Natural and Cultural History learning vacations in Baja California and other
selected spots in Mexico, plus Arizona and the American Southwest.
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Frontier Tours LLC Tucson & Portal, Arizona 2003 September 15, 2008
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