The Guadalajara Reporter
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During my stay in Tuxtla Gutiérrez, the capital of the state of Chiapas, I had a brief chance to visit the celebrated Lagunas de Montebello, which are located 170 kilometers to the southwest, near the border of Guatemala.
Jalisco’s Queen of Traditional Cuisine, Maru Toledo, has published a new cookbook (her 22nd!) entitled “Comer y Vivir en Sayula” (Eat and Live in Sayula).
Fresh winds are blowing through the stuffy halls of academia. Recently, I got to see these changes with my own eyes when I visited a small private school in Guadalajara called Instituto México Inglés (IMI)
Last June, Guadalajara Reporter contributor Elaine Halleck described an outstanding exhibition of around 50 pieces of Wixárika (Huichol) art at the Instituto Cultural Cabañas in downtown Guadalajara.
While visitingTuxtla Gutiérrez in Chiapas, I was told I absolutely had to experience a boat trip through the nearby Cañon del Sumidero, whose vertical walls tower up to 1,000 meters above the rather narrow Grijalva River.
During a short visit to Chiapas, I had a chance to visit one of the most celebrated zoos in Latin America.
At 3 p.m. October 19, Roberto David Barrios Alamillo and his wife Rut Castro Medina arrived to get a few hours sleep at a shelter that, at 4,300 meters (14,107 feet) altitude, is the staging ground for those hardy souls preparing to climb the northwest slope of Pico de Orizaba, which towers at 5,636 meters.
