
Во время движения поезд делает запланированные остановки для осмотра окрестностей. Свое оригинальное название Медный каньон получил благодаря зеленому мху и лишайнику, который покрывает его многочисленные склоны.
Медный каньон – это целая цепь из шести огромных каньонов. Каждый каньон значительно больше Великого Каньона, общая площадь их составляет около 65 тыс. км². Поражает и глубина каньонов – от самого неглубокого в 1000 м до глубочайшего в 1870 м. Для сравнения – средняя глубина Великого Каньона составляет всего около 1200 м.



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During the movement the train does the planned stops for survey of vicinities. The Copper canyon received the original name thanks to a green moss and a lichen which covers its numerous slopes.
The copper canyon is the whole chain from six huge canyons. Each canyon much more the Great Canyon, total area makes them about 65 thousand km ². Also depth of canyons – from the most superficial in 1000 m to the deepest in 1870 m strikes. For comparison – the average depth of the Great Canyon makes only about 1200 m.
On slopes of the Copper canyon, in small caves and with own hand constructed huts there live about 60 thousand Indians. Their present reminds life of ancient ancestors – maintaining a subsistence economy, cultivation of vegetables, carrying traditional clothes and execution of ritual dances. For communication with other tribes messengers are sent. Tourists are attracted by the souvenirs and subjects of use made by Indians: baskets, dolls in national suits, ceramics, musical instruments. Here it is possible to plunge completely into ancient Indian traditions, having lived in camp among the real Indians, having participated in their ritual dances and hunting.
Among the tourists visiting these vacation spots the joke about Copper and Great Canyons is very popular. She says that the Copper canyon, it that, in what dreams to turn the Great Canyon when a little grows up.