We have our own thorns. Appreciate them in the wilderness reminds us of the pain emerged in each puncture, which is life.
deny their own beauty, it would undermine the natural.
Encouraged by the good climate, landscape, adventure and professional work related to the deserts of Mexico, the expedition of "Own Land" started our journey to the Biosphere Reserve Tehuacán-Cuicatlán; protected natural area between the states of Puebla and Oaxaca 30 minutes from the city of Tehuacan, Puebla, Mex.
Leaving the Puebla-Oaxaca highway and the town of Tehuacan, to ascend the road free Huajuapan de Leon. Slowly an old door in sepia and green soft, open look.
A scream rose bursts.
A lookout on constant alert.
Walk the inhospitable is pitiful. The challenge: come out unscathed.
apparently are desolate places that require the melancholy thought to have a dry, arid, what a deception!: Deserts are living life.
Fortunately the man's hand, comes shortly here ....
Zapotitlán Valley, inhabited in ancient times by groups Popolocas, chochos, Mixtec, Cuicatecos, Mazatec, Nahuatl and Zapotec. We observed a salt mine; important resource in the classical period, prompting the trade with other peoples of the region .
A column-trajani Cephalocereus or "white thistle" lives about 140 years. 
As the skin surrounding the body, the presence of spines in most desert plants, serve to protect against herbivores and are collecting the morning dew.
Biosphere Reserve Tehuacán-Cuicatlán covers an area of \u200b\u200b490, 817 hectares.
The flora is accompanied by rich fauna: reptiles, birds, mammals, among others ...
Biznagas (Echinocactus platyacanthus)
Mezquites, Izotales periculosa yucca, cactus of column-trajani Cephalocereus, cactus Stenocereus stellatus, have a range of biodiversity Valley.
Gracious desert. 
Church gradient of the small town of 2,500 inhabitants 25 km from Tehuacán, Puebla, dedicated to the exploitation of salt .
mercy! seems to shout, evoking Herman Melville: "Lord, send Lazarus to his fingers wet our lips and we cool a little of the sufferings of this hell"
Silent .... sorry 
Zapotitlán 7 kilometer, we located the Botanical Garden HELIA BRAVO HOLLIS. The biologist devoted more than 50 years of his academic life to the study of cacti in Mexico .
Botanical Garden, Sanctuary of plants in the region.
Hermosa platform of more than 3000 plant species, 30% are endemic. The promise to return in October to the Biosphere Reserve Tehuacán-Cuicatlán, still stands.
Photo: Monique C.
Location: Biosphere Reserve Tehuacán-Cuicatlán
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