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 ...

Relax in a hammock on the sunny veranda at La Hacienda Xcanatun, a renovated eighteenth-century hotel (from $210; two-night minimum). Breakfast in the sunny Casa de Piedra restaurant is included, and ...

Mérida, Mexico, is a beautiful city that’s great to explore on foot. The only drawback is that it’s hot. So it’s important to cool off, and what better way is there to do that than with ice cream?