The Flowers of Jalapa

On Sunday morning Irma, her nephew, and his wife came to the hotel to pick us up for a full day of sightseeing in environs of Jalapa.  Our first stop was the Francisco Javier Clavijero Botanical Garden on the edge of the city.  The botanical garden is part of a much larger park which preserves a tract of fog forest, the most biodiverse but also most threatened ecosystem in Mexico.

We did not hike the trails into the forest, but contented ourselves with walking around the botanical gardens.

As I mentioned in the previous post, Jalapa is known as the "flower garden of Mexico", and the botanical garden certainly had its share of beautiful flowers.

We were not the only ones enjoying the flowers.  There were plenty of butterflies drawn to the blossoms.