Luxury Mexico Voyages

The Riviera Maya before it became the Riviera Maya, a fishing village the big resorts passed over in favor of Cancun and Playa del Carmen further along the coast. Its reef, part of the Mesoamerican Barrier system, is protected as a national park and lies close enough to snorkel straight from a boat, while a leaning lighthouse and a laid-back plaza stand in for any real infrastructure. Golf at the region's championship courses, a dip in a nearby cenote, or simply a ceviche lunch under the palapas, this is Mexico's Caribbean coast at its most unhurried.