Ask any local about Cancun and they’ll tell you it’s not the real Mexico. It’s a metropolis of foreign-owned, all-inclusive high-rises available on package holidays – somewhere designed as an easy fly ...

Why cenotes matter: Formed by limestone collapse and fed by underground rivers, cenotes were vital to the Maya for water and rituals, and today draw adventurers worldwide. Ancient Mayan legacy: The ...

The kitchen in Antigua's Casa Popenoe. Photo Credit: Arnie Weissmann LAKE PETEN ITZA, Guatemala -- Tikal is arguably the finest excavated Mayan city in Central America. Seeing those ruins was my ...

What's good about it? Cozumel, an island in the Caribbean Sea off Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, offers intriguing glimpses into ancient civilisations. Explore the pre-Columbian Mayan religious site of ...