If you’re ready to see Mexico’s Quintana Roo State in a different light and outside of its party representation (thanks to Cancun and Tulum), consider visiting Bacalar Lagoon. On the southeast tip of ...

The water of the Bacalar Lagoon, on the east coast of Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula, is as pure as glacial ice. It contains scant organic material: some of its oldest inhabitants are oligotrophic ...

Bacalar Lagoon is one of a tiny handful of places where stromatolites —layered collections ofcyanobacteria dating back billions of years — are still being formed. The alkalinity of these waters, the ...

Mexico's tourism board loves to spotlight Cancún, Tulum, and Mexico City, but honestly, some of the country's most stunning ...

The Mexican Caribbean—the strip of the Yucatán Peninsula that borders the Caribbean Sea and includes resort towns like Cancún, Tulum, and Playa del Carmen—has seen a tourism boom in recent decades, ...

Looking down from the hilltop through the palm fronds, the sight took my breath away: at least seven hues of blue, stretching out before me to a green-fringed horizon. This was the Lagoon of Seven ...

MEXICO CITY – Mexico's environmental protection agency has issued an "urgent" call for local authorities to stop sewage and waste discharges into the Yucatan Peninsula's coastal, fresh-water lake of ...

Travelers in the know say the Yucatán peninsula town of Bacalar is poised to be the region’s next big destination. Can it survive the tourist onslaught? A hammock at Azul Nomeolvides, a waterfront ...