Primavera Forest News Today

Guadalajara is an ideal spot for hikers, with all of Mexico's different biomes coming together to produce some amazing walks, says John Pint.

John Pint guides you on where to see examples of the nation's five ecosystems — all in this remarkably biodiverse state in western Mexico.

In English, the word "hiking" is practical. This much richer Spanish word also conveys the joy and mystique of being in the great outdoors.

With over two million holdings, this Guadalajara public library is the nation's second biggest after the National Autonomous University's.

This Primavera Forest hike created by botanists, geologists, archaeologists and more is so easy and interesting, a 5-year-old can enjoy it.

124shares Tala is a small town located 30 kilometers due west of Guadalajara, best known these days for its large, government-operated sugar refinery. Two thousand years ago, however, Tala was a large metropolis with a population of some 60,000 inhabitants: the people who constructed the famed Guachimontones, or “circular pyramids,” whose ruins dot hilltops all over western Mexico. Perhaps those pyramid makers decided to settle in Tala because adjacent to it lies a fairyland of pine and oak...

136shares I live in a small community called Pinar De La Venta perched on the edge of Jalisco’s Primavera Forest, a huge flora and fauna reserve adjacent to the city of Guadalajara and of nearly equal size. When I first arrived here, the community consisted of many houses with only 25 families living in them full-time. Why so few people? Well, in 1985 there were no streetlights here, no telephone service, no TV reception and, of course, no internet. Generation Alpha might find it too hard to ...

645shares A few days ago, a quiet but feisty Englishwoman named Caroline Durston passed away in the little town of Ajijic, located on the north shore of Lake Chapala, and with her ended the story of Rancho Rio Caliente, for many years one of Mexico’s most famous spas, a favorite of cognoscenti from New York to Paris. Every soul in Guadalajara knows about the marvelous hot river hidden deep inside the nearby Primavera Forest and many of them faithfully visit it (in droves) during Semana Santa ...