Chiapas
If it's open, the one-roomed Museo de la Cuenca del Usumacinta, opposite the immigration office, has some information in Spanish on the area’s postconquest history. Pride of place goes to two fine and intricately carved stelae retrieved from the nearby site of Dos Caobas.
Enter through the adjoining Restaurante Imperio Maya.
7.5 MILES
Jungle-shrouded Yaxchilán has a wonderfully atmospheric setting above a horseshoe loop in the Río Usumacinta. The control this location gave it over river…
29.93 MILES
A lovely water feature tucked 10km off the highway, where two rivers cascade dramatically from a high point of 35m and you can swim in clear blue water…
14.29 MILES
The remote Maya jungle ruins of Bonampak are spread over 2.4 sq km, but all the main ruins stand around the rectangular Gran Plaza. Never a major city,…
7.5 MILES
Jungle-shrouded Yaxchilán has a wonderfully atmospheric setting above a horseshoe loop in the Río Usumacinta. The control this location gave it over river…
14.29 MILES
The remote Maya jungle ruins of Bonampak are spread over 2.4 sq km, but all the main ruins stand around the rectangular Gran Plaza. Never a major city,…
29.93 MILES
A lovely water feature tucked 10km off the highway, where two rivers cascade dramatically from a high point of 35m and you can swim in clear blue water…