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This ruined city west of Izamal is a great mystery, as its thick, drum-shaped columns and huge ramp-like stairways are unlike any other Mayan buildings. The local village church was built on an ancient pyramid.
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This vast area of uninhabited mangroves west of San Felipe is remote and wild. There are no regular tours, but boatmen in San Felipe or Dzilam may offer a trip.
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Between Valladolid and Tizimín, this is another hot country town that has a fine church (1749) with a magnificently ornate Baroque altarpiece.
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Alongside the north coast road is a long, narrow sand-spit island, El Bajo, with deserted, coconut-palm shaded beaches. In the tiny village of Santa Clara you can find boatmen offering occasional trips to the island.
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At the end of a lonely road through savanna grass, forest, and sand flats, this tiny fishing village is a place to escape the crowds and sample miles of Gulf coast beaches.
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A huge, circular pit filled with a beautiful underground pool – now the center of a private nature park. You can swim in the cenote pool and dine in the restaurant up above it.
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This remote village 50 km (30 miles) south of Valladolid was where the great Mayan revolt of the Caste War began (see 1847: Caste War Begins); it still bears the battle scars. A small museum tells the whole story.
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The hub of Yucatán’s “cattle country” is a market town where tourism usually goes unnoticed. At its center are two spacious squares, divided by the massive walls of two Spanish monasteries.
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The atmospheric ruins of a small Mayan town on the coast, probably an outlying settlement of Dzibilchaltún. There are great sea views from the top of its main pyramid.
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An ultra-sleepy little town in the woods that surprises with a very imposing 18th-century church, with a unique three-tower façade and a beautifully carved wooden altarpiece.
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