The Mexican geography, with its multiple mountain ranges and faults, offers an infinity of canyons that, because of their configuration, are usually unpopulated and away from any roads, allowing us to enjoy fabulous, untouched landscapes.
You can visit these extraordinary places, so seldomly visited by anyone. Picture yourself trekking along a creek in the bottom of a jungle-covered canyon, watching the wildlife, camping away from the rest of the world and living adventures that only these places can offer.
Only Incursiones can take you in a canyoning expedition along rivers o dry canyons, rappeling down beautiful waterfalls or simply watching the landscape as you float by in your life vest or kayak.
We have trips with different difficulties in any part of Mexico.
Copper Canyon, Chihuahua.
In the middle of the Sierra Tarahumara, the zone known as Copper Canyos is an extense network of canyons, ravines and rivers. The best way to travel to this place is on the Chihuahua-Los Mochis railroad, making carefully planned stops along the way, depending on your interests and taste for adventure.
Season: All year - February to June to trek the Urique River Canyon.
Paradise Canyon, Queretaro.
Through this canyon flows the Extoraz river, that allows navigation during the rainy season, in addition to sports fishing, surrounded by a unique landscape. Depending on the water level, we hike or paddle this canyon; or both, in what we call an amphibious trek. The canyon walls are mostly black marble; this, along with the semi-arid weather of this zone creates a unique landscape.
This canyon is located in the so called Doorway to the Sierra Gorda and could be the first step in a long and interesting trip into this mountain range, which hides an infinity of wonders in every turn. You could travel this land for months, and each day and place would justify your trip to this Huasteca Queretana.
Season: All year - Usually from July to September we can paddle the river.
Xilitla, San Luis Potosi.
If what you are looking for is a place out of the ordinary, you can't miss Xilitla. Here, in a place called Las Pozas (The Ponds), the Englishman Edward James, surrealist poet, decided to build a garden (surrealistic, by the way) integrated to its surroundings. Giving shape to his dreams with concrete "before they dissapear", he managed to integrate Gaudi, Escher, Dali and The Emerald City of Oz. Stairways going nowhere, balconies, passageways bordered with sculptures, patinated with the everpresent moss, and the landscape itself conform a place that really makes you doubt if you are awake. This strange place is now known as the Englishman's Castle.
The names of some of his dreams aren't less strange than the works themselves: The House With a Roof Like a Whale, The House of Three Stories That Could Be Five, The Stegosaurus Colt, The Fleur-de-Lys Bridge and Cornucopia, The Temple of The Ducks, The House Destined to be a Cinema.
It's not surprising that this 'visionary' chose Las Pozas to build his castle. A jungle of monumental trees, thick vegetation and lianas that makes it difficult to tell where nature ends and surrealistic creation starts. A creek runs through the jungle forming a long string of waterfalls and ponds that you can easily tread, most noticeable of all are the tropical birds that abound in this place. "I'm turning into a parrot" said Mr. James about the birds constantly with him. In all truth, you have to see this place to believe it.
Season: All year.
San Pedro Escanela, Queretaro.
Another magical place of Queretaro's Sierra Gorda. For those who seek real excitement, this extreme trek takes us through a wild canyon, rappelling and hiking down a long series of waterfalls of up to 40 m high. Good stamina is required for this kind of trip.
Season: All year, though it is recommended during the rainy season, July to October.
La Venta river canyon, Chiapas.
In the middle of the thick Chiapas jungle, this river has kept speleologists, geologists, archaeologists and naturists intrigued for years. A long portion of the river, still not fully explored, runs underground forming caves and cellars under kilometers of jungle. Among these cellars is notable the Sotano de La Lucha; A large potion of jungle that, undermined by the river's erosion, sank 250m deep thousands of years ago, and now is an extraordinary place where even the trees have adapted to the twilight and has dozens of endemic species, including insects, plants, crustaceans and even monkeys. You can rappel down into this pit, and then negotiate the underground river to its resurgence in the La Venta Canyon.
After emerging form its mysterious underground origin, this river is paddleable through wonderful jungle canyons. In some parts, it offers some class III rapids and beautiful waterfalls.
This is an extreme adventure that, because of the isolation of the place, requires at least a 6 days expedition.
Season: All year
Any adventure you wish, we can make it happen