A Mexican Vocho  is a Volkswagen beetle. An icon of its cities and towns. Many of these are ancient and dressed up in colourful attire while moving people and goods everywhere. They seem indestructible. Some urban prophets predict that they are the only thing that will survive the imminent collapse  of cities and modern civilization. Vocho in Coyoacán Red vocho in Oaxaca Grey vocho in Puebla Light Blue vocho in Puebla Multicoloured vocho in Oaxaca

For over fifty years Juan Cortez has been walking the paths of the Helia Bravo Hollis botanic garden. From the entrance to the top of the hill and the viewing platform.  He knows more than anyone, the regional plant’s properties, its animal’s behaviours, the geography of its mountains and the history of his ancestors, that lived for generations in the same place. He survived one of those, so mexican, earthquakes perched at the top of the viewing platform.   He knows which plants can be eaten,...

Located in Mexico’s Central Valley, between the years 200 bc and 650ac, Teotihuacán was a huge religious centre, perhaps the most important in Mesoamerican history. It’s name comes from the náhuatl Word which means “Place of the Gods”. The two principal centres are the one dedicated to the Moon and the one dedicated to the Sun.  In the Avenue of the Dead there are a number of building from where the elites saw the religious ceremonies.   A distinctive Teotihuacán art forms were developed over...