Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula is a place of history and beauty, mystery and wonder. With its centuries-old Maya civilization, ...

Donald Miralle/Stringer/Getty All around the Yucatán Peninsula, within easy reach of some of Mexico’s best vacation spots, visitors will find dreamy turquoise-hued swimming holes called cenotes.

“There are lots of cenotes that are not polluted, where you can still swim and enjoy the water,” de Anda says. “But some are very bad, especially inside the cities.

This is why Izamal is known as ‘la Ciudad de los Cerros’ (the City of Hills). In the evening, we head to Chichén Itzá to spend the night. DAY 4: Chichén Itzá-Valladolid. We start the day exploring ...

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 ...

The Ring of Cenotes of Chicxulub Crater, Yucatan, has all the elements that keep their integrity, their connectedness to the hydrological watershed of Yucatan, the karstic wide variety of limestone ...

Cenote Dzitnup, an immense vaulted cavern in the middle of the Yucatan Peninsula, ...

Ecology and Society Vol. 22, No. 4, Dec 2017 Restoring the environment, revitalizing the culture: cenote conservation in Yucatan, Mexico This is the metadata section. Skip to content viewer ...