A group of international journalists gather on the steps of one of the older churches on the grounds of the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City. Ann Augherton (middle row, second from left) was joined by journalists from Kenya, Ghana, Nepal, Slovakia, and Europe.

The tilma, worn by Juan Diego, has the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe on the front of it. Framed and protected by glass, the tilma hangs over the altar and can be viewed from a moving sidewalk below.

Votive candles flicker in the darkness of St. Jude Church in Mexico City.

An angel statue stands high on the hill overlooking the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City.

Chamomile flowers (right) are turned into tea by this man at the local market in Oaxaca, Mexico.

Journalists make their way to Monte Alban, a mountain-top town that dates back to 700 B.C.

On Monte Alban, journalists smell some of the fragrant flowers native to this area of Mexico.

The "Christmas Tree" and the "Bride's Veil" are some of the waterfalls that decorate Canyon Sumidero in Chiapas, Mexico.

Pigs stare out from their cage in a Mexican market.

Monte Alban, once a spiritual, political and commercial center with 50,000 inhabitants in 300 A.D., was nearly deserted 400 years later.