Guides The Yucatán: Beyond the Beaches Explore the jaw-dropping ruins of ancient Mayan cities, the sacred cenotes, and the ambiance of the jungle on a Yucatán honeymoon.

Tour company near Merida: Merida Gay Tours, owned by Ricardo Godoy, is an excellent guide for cenotes, ruins, and other excursions in Merida and throughout the Yucatan.

Among the asphalt, cars, and shopping carts, the Costco in Merida, Mexico features an amazing natural wonder: a semi-open cenote. A cenote is a sinkhole or collapsed cave filled with groundwater.

But among all this vastness—with aviaries, orchards and a private cenote all best explored by the provided bicycles—the resort’s most impressive asset is a sense of genuine privacy.

Cenote Kankirixché in Abalá, just 30 minutes from Uxmal, is a semi-open cenote with a wooden staircase and platform to access the water. With a depth ranging from two to 50 meters, it's great ...

For travelers seeking the true water culture experience, a bucket-list item is swimming in one of the region’s cenotes, an underground freshwater reservoir. Xlacah, a popular cenote, located at ...

There’s hardly a better way to spend a hot day than swimming in a cenote on Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula. The cool, fresh, 75-degree cenote water is delightful now, when temperatures are in the ...

Merida is not the Yucatan you thought you knew. Not touristy like Cancun or the Mayan Riviera, the capital of Mexico’s State of Yucatan was built atop an existing Mayan city in 1542 and named ...

The Car Wash cenote is a 15-minute taxi ride from the hotel, and costs 50 pesos (about $2.50 USD) to enter. Afterward, follow locals’ example and fuel up on tacos al pastor, aguas frescas, and ...

The lack of signage to the Yucatan Peninsula's inner sanctums is understandable, considering that most of the annual 7.4 million tourists landing in Mexico's No. 1 vacation playground simply turn ...

Email: [email protected] Daytime phone number: 415-749-1086 Just back from: Merida, Mexico I went because: We are celebrating our fiftieth wedding anniversary year by visiting interesting places.