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| Arriving for work with Chris |
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| Chris's "office" |
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| The orchid lab, where rare orchids are propagated and new varieties created. |
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| A view from the orchid house. |
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| Chris with the fruit of the cuastecomate tree. The fruit apparently has medicinal properties. The outer skin was used in ancient Mexico to make drinking vessels. |
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| Orchids in the orchid house. Mexico has 3,000 varieties, of which the garden has 300. |
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| The view from the restaurant of the Horcones River valley. |
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| A hummingbird visited us for breakfast. |
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| Lots of spiders hanging high up on their webs. |
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| Lots of butterflies of all colours and caterpillars. We joined a presentation and walk by the local butterfly conservancy. Dulce, who led the presentation and walk, told us that this not very attractive caterpillar has a nasty sting. |
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| A cacao tree. The whiteish pods contain the seeds from which the chocolate is made from and the small white flowers growing up the trunk will produce more pods. |
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