https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8D9RCG2zQcc The first stones of the Metropolitan Cathedral in Mexico City were put into place in 1573, taken from the rocks of a nearby Aztec temple, which Hernán Cortés and his gang of conquistadores destroyed after the Spanish invasion and occupation of Mexico 50 years earlier. The cathedral, assembled in...
I'm sure, since you're the adventurous type, that you've always wanted to take a solo trip to the misty jungle mountains of Chiapas, to visit one of the rebel strongholds of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation. But if you're also like me, you're completely baffled, probably, about how to...
Landscape photography was my first venture in photography when I started taking photos eight years ago. So when I moved to Mexico a year later, in 2010, I took a lot of photos of landscape photos of Lake Chapala, sunsets, and egrets when I first got here. This was the...
Mexico City is the second-largest city in the world with its population of 21.2 million. So it's kind of a surprise to find this lush network of canals feeding off of its southern edge in the borough of Xochimilco. Before the Spanish arrived in the 16th century, the town was...
https://youtu.be/4QTDXmCCgt4 Watch this video slideshow of photos taken in San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas. Chiapas: Defying Preconceived Notions of Mexico When you arrive in the colonial-era town of San Cristóbal de las Casas, eternally crowned by mountain clouds on Mexico's southern tip, you would swear you had gone too...
https://youtu.be/XHLKjRnm4A4 In 2010, when I moved from the U.S. to Mexico, I was a passenger (for the second time) on a 2,200-mile road trip from Denver, Colorado, to Lake Chapala,...
https://youtu.be/_9_hpi09cVI VIDEO: Listen to 100,000s of thousands of gallons of tequila fermenting to the sound of Mozart at Tequila Cazadores in Arandas, Mexico. If you've ever lived a tequila lover's...
https://youtu.be/AXwOYfCWvRw By the time our 1994 fire engine red Suzuki Samurai -- which my friend described as "basically like driving a covered motorcycle" -- bounced across the Mexican border, we...
I don't often make it out to the small town of Mezcala, about 20 minutes west of Chapala. But when I do, I'm always glad I went. Everything there is...
Cemeteries are not so much for the dead as for the living. Nowhere else could this be better illustrated than in Mexico, where the nation devotes three days and nights...
Back from a short long-weekend trip to the two small cities of Morelia and Pátzcuaro. It was my first trip to Michoacán and it was charming, especially the "pueblo mágico" of Pátzcuaro, whose buildings have terracotta roofs and are painted the standard magic town colors of white and red. Barely...
Two men hold fliers handed out during the 2016 carnaval celebrations, which start taking place over two weeks before the grand finale on Fat Tuesday. Carnaval is how it's known outside of the United States; you might be more familiar with it as "Mardi Gras."
A truck is parked on the street last Saturday afternoon in Jocotepec, Jalisco, Mexico.
Last month I took a trip to Chiapas – and I went to Oventic, one of the headquarters of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN). The Zapatistas are a peaceful resistance army of indigenous villagers in the mountains and jungles of Chiapas, Mexico's poorest and southern-most state. Chiapas feels like another...
Caught this scene while standing on the bus going to the Fiesta of Lourdes in Chapala the other day. Got off and ran back to take some photos before the scheduled start of the fiesta. Which started right on time! Not sure if I have any photos of the fiesta...
Small motor boats moored in the late afternoon on the shore of Lake Chapala, Mexico.
Rain in central Mexico during the dry season, between November and May, is not common, but not impossible. When it comes, it often doesn't last for long, serving only to wash some of the dust off the streets and tempt the locusts into singing in anticipation of an early rainy...
Shadows from a metal lantern fall against a sidewalk in Ajijic, Mexico.
