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 ...

Cancun is a fantastic destination that’s easy to get to from almost anywhere. It’s on the Yucatan Peninsula in the state of Quintana Roo which also includes the magnificent islands of Holbox, Isla ...

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 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, ...

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, ...