Cancun is a fantastic destination that’s easy to get to from almost anywhere. It’s on the Yucatan Peninsula in the state of ...

It was supposed to be just a short walk to the central plaza to grab some breakfast, but a gathering band of little Pancho Villas caught my eye. They adjusted their sombreros, fiddled with the ...

Mexico editor Gay Nagle Myers was in Cancun for the annual Cancun Travel Mart for buyers and suppliers. Her second dispatch follows. Click to read Gay's first dispatch. ISLA HOLBOX — Two hours by road ...

Isla Holbox is a small, slender island just north of Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula in the Gulf of Mexico. Mexicans have long been in the know about this laid-back, go-everywhere-in-flip-flops getaway, ...

ISLA HOLBOX, Mexico — Several weeks before I found myself uncomfortably close to the world’s largest shark, I told a few folks I would be going to Holbox. “Whole what?” asked more than one. “Holocene, ...

I have touched heaven, and it is a vacation in Holbox, an island off the north coast of Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula flanked on one side by a lagoon. I’d been hearing about it for a while, usually in ...

I pulled my bag off one of the golf carts that serve as taxis on Isla Holbox and lugged it through the door of the thatch-roofed bungalow we’d rented for a week. Although the sun had recently set and, ...

Cancun sucks! There, I said it. It’s crowded, expensive, they have a seaweed problem — and I could go on, but I’ll stop here. However, there’s a magical place you can visit which has the same ...

It was supposed to be just a short walk to the central plaza to grab some breakfast, but a gathering band of little Pancho Villas caught my eye. They adjusted their sombreros, fiddled with the ...

Isla Holbox is a small, slender island just north of Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula in the Gulf of Mexico. Mexicans have long been in the know about this laid-back, go-everywhere-in-flip-flops getaway, ...