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 ...

Jam-packed resorts, shoulder-to-shoulder crowds in public beaches, and a growing sense of insecurity that wasn't there 3 to 4 ...

Quintana Roo is consistently Mexico’s most-visited state. Travelers flock here for blue waters rich in snorkeling and dive ...

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,” corrected my ...

Picture this: you’ve spent the day reclining in the shade on a sun lounger, toes covered in white sand, as you gaze across crystal clear water. There’s a light breeze blowing through your salty hair, ...

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, ...

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, ...