This was not how I had imagined my trip to sunny Mexico—hurricane season was supposed to be over. It was night, and we were coming into Mérida, the capital city of Yucatán—La Ciudad Blanca, as it is ...

Everyone knows the Yucatán Peninsula for the famed beaches of Cancún and Playa del Carmen, and many are familiar with stunning images of the 2,400 known cenotes (underground pools) that were central ...

This stylish, foodie city in Eastern Mexico is ready for its close up.

Name of restaurant: El Faisan y El Venado. Named after the nickname given to the Mexican state of Yucatán, based on the abundant deer and pheasant that are said to roam the land. Chef: Maria Eugenia ...

My first glimpse of Mexico's Yucatan region was though a bus window as my friend and I reached the end of a grueling but well-intentioned adventure that took us from Mexico City to Merida in a week of ...

Carlos Huber, the Mexico City–born founder of the perfume brand Arquiste, has mastered the art of setting a scene with scent. Arquiste’s best-selling Nanban, for instance, conjures the aroma of a 17th ...

Mérida is the Yucatán Peninsula’s cultural epicenter, a genteel mix of provincial and cosmopolitan with a friendly small-town feel, despite its 777,000 residents. As a woman traveling alone, I hadn’t ...