In this Cancun cenote guide, you’ll discover all the coolest ones — including the closest cenotes to Cancun on the famous Ruta de Cenotes. You’ll learn which cenotes are best for what (snorkeling, ...

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 ...

With kids out of school for summer vacation it’s time to swap bustling city life for tropical views and rolling ocean waves. Families looking for sunny adventures will love exploring the Riviera Maya, ...

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 ...

Cancun. It’s all just sun, sand and partying, right? Well, wrong. This famous tourist hotspot on the Yucatan Peninsula may have become a byword for excess, but from Lucha Libre to Mayan history to the ...

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 ...

Some people come to Cancún to lay on the beach, but there's also adventure and culture aplenty. Here's where you can explore ancient history, underwater universes, and adrenaline-pumping action. Visit ...

Cancun has always seemed to live in a world all its own. Cancun's singularity is no mistake; it's by design. In the 1960s, in a bid to supersize the nation's tourism industry, the Mexican government ...

Though perhaps most known for tourist-packed Cancún, Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula also holds tens of thousands of beautiful, overlooked cenotes. For the ancient Maya, these natural, freshwater sinkholes ...

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 80s, and ...