The Boojum Trees of Mexico’s Baja California
Strange Endemic Plants Cover 250 Miles of Mexico's Baja Peninsula
Boojum trees are one of many reasons for tourists to visit the eight-hundred mile long peninsula below California, site of Mexico’s two most western states. The Boojum (Fouquieria columnaris) was named in 1922 by a botanical explorer from Tucson, Godfrey Sykes, who adopted the name from a Lewis Carroll’s fictional character in The Hunting of...
Mexico’s Wine Country
Valle de Guadalupe
The New World of Wine Today, Baja California is incontestably the major wine region of Mexico. Located northeast of Ensenada in the Mexican state of Baja California, the Valle de Guadalupe produces the majority of Mexican wine—more than 90% of Mexican wine, in fact, comes from this area. Who would have thought that this inhospitable...
