This Primavera Forest hike created by botanists, geologists, archaeologists and more is so easy and interesting, a 5-year-old can enjoy it.
Stories by John Pint
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Meet 2 of rural Mexico’s insects: creepy to some, dangerous to no one
Get to know these two country denizens who may look scary but are completely safe and just need a little gentle help in exiting your home.
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Adversity leads to a better way up Guadalajara’s beautiful Cerro del Colli
Heavy rains and landowners closed off John Pint’s favorite portals to the Primavera Forest, but he’s found an even better way in.
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The search for the Puddle of the Cow led to Jalisco’s deepest hot river
John Pint’s hunt for a warm river in the Jalisco Highlands in 2012 turned out to be a bust, but both hope (and thermal waters) spring eternal.
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This man’s dirt in a box is helping the rural poor avoid malnutrition
Robert Patterson educates people living in remote areas with poor soil how they can grow their own food via container gardening.
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Mexican bats, up close and personal: what’s not to love?
John Pint only really saw bats after taking up caving, when he found that they have more intelligence and personality then he ever imagined.
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New book tells you where to find 25 unforgettable hikes in western Mexico
John and Susy Pint’s latest work details out-of-the-way nature locations, many of which they discovered while on caving expeditions.
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Hiking the Río Seco in Jalisco’s Primavera Forest is never the same twice
This beautiful, ever-changing canyon will please hikers of all abilities. Even after just 10 minutes, it won’t look the same on the way back.
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Do psilocybin mushrooms actually offer a glimpse of hidden reality?
A year ago, John Pint attended a velada, a guided magic mushroom trip, and judges it as the most important experience of his life.
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Guadalajara brings aficionados a veritable feast of abstract art in August
Have a passion for the genre? Then, get thee to Jalisco! Two museums in the capital have curated over 120 current works by Mexican artists.
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The popular “drowned sandwich” created in Guadalajara — by accident
After John Pint admitted to a friend that he had never tried the city’s famous torta ahogada, he was immediately educated on its origins.
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Geologist’s delight: see 3 types of volcano in 1 day in Guadalajara
Without much travel beyond the city limits, you can reach a scoria, stratovolcano and caldera type — and encounter some beautiful vistas!
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Author Tony Burton seeks out Jalisco’s forgotten histories and mysteries
Columnist John Pint chats with the prolific writer about how he fell in love with Mexico, Chapala’s 19th-century tourism industry and more.
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Hair-raising drive to San Pedro Analco thrills as much as the destination
With a precipitous drop, landslides and very narrow tunnels, the road to this Jalisco mine town demands four-wheel drive and steady nerves.
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Town’s innovative water treatment plant is so simple, its residents can run it
A scientist helped residents of Atequizayán, Jalisco, find a more viable option than their expensive-to-maintain government-built facility.
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Meat mogul’s low-cost medical testing labs fill gap for Mexico’s uninsured
Millionaire and former Sinaloa senator Jesús Vizcarra was inspired to create the affordable clinics after his son suffered a brain hemorrhage.
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‘Hot fudge’ caves in a tiny Jalisco town feature big surprises
Chocolate-colored stalactites and eye-popping wildlife make this tricky-to-enter cavern system and its unassuming entrance worth finding.
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A former Jalisco hacienda is a veritable garden of Eden
Idyllic Hacienda de San Antonio del Potrero has sat near Tequila, Jalisco. since 1785, but it’s hard to find a tequileño who’s heard of it.
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Museum spotlights Catrina creator’s art as well as life under the Porfiriato
Its collection of 3,000 works by the artist José Guadalupe Posada provides useful context for understanding this period in Mexican history.
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Artisan forges beauty, utility from waste on the forest floor
A crafts class 15 years ago and a leap of faith transformed Marina Bañuelos from a busy workaday mom into Jalisco’s queen of pine needle art.
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Idyllic water park nestled in nature began with 300 pesos and a dream
Don Salvador loved the El Manto waterfall near his Nayarit hometown so much as a boy that as an adult, he turned it into his life’s work.
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Green vistas, big cats, caves make Sierra Lalo’s secrets worth the search
The 240,000 hectares of this remote Jalisco locale features wildlife, stalactite-filled caverns and a scary ghost story to tell back home.
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If Pancho Villa fought the Revolution today, he’d do so as José Arango
What’s in a name? When you’re a foreigner living in Mexico and dealing with Mexican bureaucracy? Quite a lot, it turns out.
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Guadalajara residents stop waiting and clean a toxic river with eggshells
Fed up with government inaction on Jalisco’s contaminated Santiago River, locals are trying a cleanup plan so simple, it just might work.
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Distillery’s tequila methods traditional yet also innovative, sustainable
Agave Azul’s owners proudly say that making tequila the old-fashioned way handed down through generations needn’t harm the environment.
