While cruising on the five-day inaugural Norwegian Prima cruise ship from the Port of Galveston, we stopped one day at the port in Progreso, Mexico. Located along the Yucatan Peninsula, Progreso is a ...

"There are about 1,000 registered cenotes in Yucatán," our tour guide proudly declares as he ushers us around Gran Museo del Munda Maya, a museum in Merida that showcases Mayan art and history. That's ...

The Maya called them dzonots (sacred wells). The Spanish — mangling the Mayan name — called them cenotes. We call them unsurpassable swimming holes. The Yucatán peninsula, where most of Mexico's ...

Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula, one of the world’s most visited regions, sits on a bedrock of limestone caused by the asteroid collision that wiped out the dinosaurs. Rainwater seeping into the limestone ...

Divers working in a cenote on Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula recovered roughly 150 firearms and a cannon from beneath the water, adding a striking colonial-era weapons cache to the archaeological record ...

Though perhaps most known for tourist-packed Cancún, Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula also holds tens of thousands of beautiful, overlooked cenotes. For the ancient Maya, these natural, freshwater sinkholes ...

With kids out of school for summer vacation it’s time to swap bustling city life for tropical views and rolling ocean waves. Families looking for sunny adventures will love exploring the Riviera Maya, ...