On October 27 the state of Jalisco marked the first Primavera Forest Day, which has  the aim of reminding citizens every year of the natural wonder lying directly west of Guadalajara.

Each year some five million hawks, eagles, kites and other birds of prey in Canada and the United States take off for warmer climes to the south, passing through a long, narrow corridor in the state of Veracruz, between the Sierra Madre Oriental and the Gulf of Mexico.

An inexpensive butane lighter can indicate the underground presence of invisible, odorless, carbon dioxide and can help cave visitors avoid death by asphyxiation.

In the Montessori approach to education, children exposed to sensorial activities and materials develop heightened senses of touch, taste, sight, sound and smell, potentially awakening unexpected talents and opening doors to careers their parents might never have imagined for them.

Oracle Mexico is doing a great job when it comes to community outreach and you never know where you might see it in action.

South of Guadalajara and north of Lake Chapala stand a string of venerable old churches which bear witness to the naïveté of the Franciscans who had them built, and the cleverness of their indigenous builders and decorators.