The town of Palenque is a bit scruffy, offering little for tourists other than a place to stay and eat while visiting the nearby Palenque Mayan ruins . I stayed two nights at Ciudad Real Palenque , ...

Amidst jungle-shrouded hills overlooking the Usumacinta River basin in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas, the Mayan site of Palenque is a jewel for anyone interested in ancient Mayan civilization.

Just like actual travel, online exploration can take you to some of the strangest corners of the internet. How is it that within two or three clicks of merely Googling the Mesoamerican ruins of ...

From seat 7A, I look down to see miles of dense rain forest blanketing the ground below me. I'm 10,000 feet above the Mexican state of Chiapas, coming in for a landing at Palenque, where an ancient ...