The Mexican state of Quintana Roo’s regional authorities are concerned about the record-high levels of contamination they’ve discovered recently in Cancun area cenotes. Recent routine testing ...

A decade-long Mexico resident's guide to Riviera Maya boutique stays, uncrowded cenotes, sunrise ruins, and local markets ...

Some people come to Cancún to lay on the beach all day. And it's a wonderful way to spend your time. The coastline is breathtakingly beautiful, and wiggling your toes in the flour-like white sand ...

Scattered across the Yucatán Peninsula, near Mexico’s prime vacation destinations, are stunning turquoise swimming holes called cenotes. The name comes from the Mayan word “ts’onot,” meaning “hole ...

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 ...

Travelers to Cancun will be happy to hear about a new project that will revitalize more than 100 public cenotes around the popular vacation spot. Cenotes are natural pits full of groundwater. They've ...

Reporting from PLAYA DEL CARMEN, Mexico — Our scuba group plopped into the cenote and slipped below the surface into a spectacular light show of wavering, laser-like sunbeams that sliced through the ...

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 ...