Raising The Dead
Easter in Mexico, Semana Santa and Pascua: a resource page
Day of the Dead: things to do around Guadalajara
Mixquic: the Day of the Dead and the Day of All Saints in Mexico
Cuernavaca's Muros Museum: There's Heart within These Walls
Building a foundation to live in Teotitlan del Valle, Oaxaca
Mexico's Día de Muertos celebration: Is it dying?
"Every year there are more and more tourists. They're not coming to see our tradition, they just want another reason to have a fiesta. It gets worse later, when they start urinating on the candles."
read moreFirst Stop in the New World by David Lida: an interview with the author
Mexico City has long exercised a fascination for writers of varying foreign stripes - Graham Greene, Aldous Huxley, Jack Keruoac, D. H. Lawrence, William S. Burroughs, B. Traven; not to mention Latin American writers such as Roberto Bolaño, Carlos Fuentes, Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Alvaro Mutis - and while some of them have stopped here for brief periods and others have made it their home, the erstwhile megalopolis (now 'hypermetropolis') remains an elusive quarry to pin down in words. Its trawling immensity may be a well of inspiration or a veritable Oak Island of futile excavation in search of treasures that refuse to be unearthed.
read moreLake Chapala through the ages, an anthology of travellers' tales
There is something for everybody in Tony Burton's, Lake Chapala through the ages. Whether you are fascinated by the early history of the place where you now live or visit (or would like to visit), or whether you are interested in early accounts of the natural history of the region, or of the lake itself.
read morePilgrimage from San Miguel de Allende to San Juan de los Lagos in 1967: A photo essay
Founded in 1542, San Juan de los Lagos is set in the Los Altos region of Jalisco, an area distinguished by its devotion to the Roman Catholic faith. The Cathedral there is home to the diminutive image of the Virgin of the Immaculate Concepcion. Since 1623, numberless miracles have been attributed to the little Virgin, and San Juan de Los Lagos is visited by millions of the faithful each year. In fact, only the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City draws more religious pilgrims than San Juan de los Lagos.
read moreSan Juan de Los Lagos: The Virgin, her basilica, her pilgrims, and their exvotos
Exvotos are both very public and extremely personal -- like "thank you notes to God."
read moreSilver, Saints, and Sinners™: Semana Santa in Taxco, Mexico
Fiestas de Octubre - Auditorio Benito Juarez, Guadalajara
May in Mexico: Fiestas galore
Bullfights - where and when
Hanal Pixan, Maya Day of the Dead in Pac Chen, Quintana Roo
