From Ojinaga at the border we took the road to Chihuahua. We have gone back one hour as Chihuahua state follows “Mountain time”. It means it will get dark even earlier… not great.

The road was not busy. It goes through the Chihuahua desert so not much around. Just before the town of Aldama we took a small side dirt road and after following it for a while we found a spot in a field, shielded from the road so we could not be seen: plenty of mosquitoes around but fine once we had set up our net tent.

Next morning, a Saturday, we made our way to Chihuahua Town and got there early before the traffic picked up. Nice square with the Cathedral and pedestrian area. Many shops selling cowboy hats and boots.

Carried on to Cuauhtemoc, very lively center with again shops selling Cowboy attire.

We are going west towards the Copper Canyon and we soon started to climb into the Sierra Madre Occidental. Not many possibilities of wild camping as fences along both sides of the road but eventually we found somewhere, just as it was getting dark. Road quite busy with trucks and as we did not want to signal our position we did not bother cooking: cold dinner tonight!

Next morning left early as quite cold! we were the first ones to arrive at the Basaseachi Falls viewpoint! The Falls are the second highest in Mexico (246meters). The sun was not quite reaching yet!

We had our breakfast admiring the view, with one companion!

Next stop, San Juanito, dusty town split in half by railway tracks. Stocked on some groceries and had my first burrito from a stand by the side of the tracks!

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