Recent visitors also recommended popping by the museum's gift shop and enjoying the second-floor balcony's view overlooking the botanical garden. You'll find the Museo de las Culturas de Oaxaca ...

If you've never been to Oaxaca before, the sheer number of things to do can be overwhelming. This beginner's guide to Oaxaca breaks it all down.

As soon as it gets cold and wintry outside, I act like a moth to a flame and instantly gravitate to greenhouses, garden ...

Here’s a bold suggestion: 2025 should be declared the International Year of the Boot. After all, the UN just celebrated the ...

Oaxaca is the most biodiverse region of Mexico. The Jardín Etnobotánico (Ethnobotanical Garden) is dedicated to showcasing the region's remarkable flora. Designed by celebrated artists Luis Zárate and ...

500 km2) - this region also shows a peak in the proportion of species threatened with extinction; the Mexican states of Querétaro and San Luis Potosí, and in Oaxaca and Puebla ... and South America.

No trip to the Oaxacan Coast is complete without a jaunt to a string of towns in the south. The most well-known is Mazunte, ...

MARIA DE LOS ANGELES ARAGON GARCIA, a visual arts student in Oaxaca, Mexico, who competed for the first time in the city’s radish-carving competition, a cherished tradition upheld by generations of ...

Over the years, I have made several 17- to 18-day trips deep into Mexico, flying to Mexico City, Oaxaca, Puebla, or Mérida — ...

Oaxaca's main square – formally referred to as the Plaza de la Constitución de Oaxaca, but colloquially called the Zócalo – is a must-see. Skirted by cafes and eateries and bounded by the ...

I hope you have read, at least once, the “garden calendar” that accompanies each of these columns. The first item is always something about the Alaska Botanical Garden, an institution which I ...