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 ...

Holbox has been the backpacker’s alternative to Cancun for decades – an artsy little island that time forgot. Now discerning travelers are coming to this little slice of paradise looking for upscale ...

Brain freeze from a hasty gulp of a piña colada produced the only imperfect moment during five days on Isla Holbox. The idyllic island a two-hour drive and 20-minute ferry ride from the highways and ...

Reporting from Isla Holbox, Mexico — Several weeks before I found myself uncomfortably close to the world’s largest shark, I told a few folks I would be going to Holbox. “Whole what?” asked more than ...

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 ...

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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, Mexico — Several weeks before I found myself uncomfortably close to the world’s largest shark, I told a few folks I would be going to Holbox. “Whole what?” asked more than one. “Holocene, ...