A beautiful long meadow with white wisps rising from fumaroles, bathing the hillside in steam day and night, makes a great place to camp.
Mexico Life
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Design Week will put Mexican design and architecture on the world stage
Designers are looking to put Mexico on the map in terms of design and architecture, showing Mexican work to be new, fresh and truly inspiring.
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Colombofilia, a forgotten sport dear to the heart of many Mexicans
While the media are forever filled with chatter about futbol and béisbol, there is another sport dear to the heart of many which rarely ever makes the news.
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Hundreds show up to support a tiny sandwich shop in downtown Mexico City
Free tortas were given away as part of a “tortathon” to raise awareness about the eviction of Torta Robles.
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At Hacienda El Carmen you can step back into the Mexico of the 1700s
They raise sugar cane and corn on the 160-acre farm and a huge, modern greenhouse supplies all the vegetables served in the gourmet restaurant.
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Farm-to-table restaurants give an earthy feel to luxurious Los Cabos
When many people think of Los Cabos what generally comes to mind is glitz, glamour and all-inclusive hotel options accompanied by luxury excursions.
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Who needs batteries: pumped storage ‘lake battery’ planned for Baja California
Solar energy by its nature it leaves a certain problem: it generates no energy at night, meaning it must be stored. That’s where pumped storage comes in.
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Real de Catorce: a lively ghost town in the mountains of San Luis Potosí
Once a vibrant mining town, Real de Catorce saw its peak in the 19th century with a population of 15,000 dedicated to mining silver.
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Río Caliente, Jalisco’s hot river, most popular attraction of Bosque la Primavera
The river is born deep inside a canyon where it literally boils out of the walls, a testimony to the continuing presence of magma deep beneath the surface.
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The disappearing art of maguey bag weaving carries on in Chiapas highlands
A generations-old tradition of making beautiful bags from maguey fibers lives on in isolated villages in the mountains of Chiapas.
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Crocodiles live the good life in Jalisco sanctuary, the biggest in Mexico
The sanctuary is located in La Manzanilla, covers some 264 hectares and has a population of 400 to 500 American crocodiles.
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Mesquite: a protein-rich ancestral food that is making a comeback
Mesquite is widely known as a tree but its beans are also the source of a highly nutritious flour that is gaining popularity as a superfood.
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Artisans in Las Navajas create sophisticated sculptures from obsidian
Jalisco craftspeople transform rough chunks of the natural volcanic glass into creations of all kinds in their workshop near Guadalajara.
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A Mexican winemaker down under makes Australian wine for Mexico
His father’s love of wine first got Mauricio Ruiz Cantú interested in the winemaking process. Now he and his partner have two labels.
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La María, Colima: a crater lake with a view
La María is a crater lake in Colima, an enchanting, hidden-away place where you can enjoy a fireworks show of a sort at night.
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Through a non-profit, Tlaloc the rain god provides water in CDMX and beyond
An ingenious rainwater harvesting system developed by a Mexico City organization is helping the most marginalized communities have access to clean water.
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La Perla Records & Books in Guadalajara: a passion for great literature and music
Gerry Smith knows books and ‘Bola’ Domene knows music. Together they offer what might be the biggest and best used book and record shop in Latin America.
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Oaxacan elders are dancing their way out of isolation thanks to non-profit group
Seniors in Santo Domingo Tonalá have found community within a zumba beat through the efforts of a non-profit support group.
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A visit to Guadalajara’s Bosque Urbano, Latin America’s largest tree farm
Bosque Urbano is the name of a huge nursery in the northwest of the city and responsible for the planting of thousands of trees per week.
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A line chef in Mexico’s top restaurants found his passion was gelato
Does blue corn flavor gelato sound appealing? Avocado? Those are just two of the many flavors being dreamed up by “gelatician” José Luis Cervantes.
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The fish with the Mona Lisa smile faces extinction due to loss of habitat
The axolotl lpopulation in Lake Xochimilco — where they had thrived in pre-Hispanic times — dropped from 6,000 per square kilometer in 1998 to only 35 in 2014.
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Leonora Carrington Museum is a surreal location for surrealist art
The prisons cells of an old penitentiary seem an unlikely place for exhibition rooms but that is where you will find the new museum in the city of San Luis Potosí.
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The Mexican maple forest that time forgot — and amazed botanists
In a hidden-away arroyo in Jalisco, botanists were amazed to see not just one maple tree but a whole woods full of them, an ancient fir-maple-conifer cloud forest.
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Maru Toledo’s cooking school is rescuing colonial and pre-Hispanic cuisine
Maru Toledo, an award-winning cook, culinary researcher, radio personality and author of at least 20 cookbooks, keeps old techniques alive.
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In downtown Guadalajara, a revival of the art of handmade books
José Clemente Orozco is doing marvelous things with books in the Jalisco capital.
