We rarely write about this area because it’s on so many itineraries that it barely counts as a “Back Road.” You’ve all been to Uxmal, and many have continued south and east on the Pu’uc Region route, visiting the small but important sites of Kabah, Sayil and Labná. We’ve been there too, but a LONG …
See the Route Map at the bottom of this page! COVID and some big Real Life happenings combined to keep your YBR team off the backroads for a while! But we’re finally back with a day trip to one of our favorite places and two new ones! We started with a highway trip to Mayapan, …
It’s been a long, hot summer, but September gets us back on the road again! This little trip took us to the Hacienda Kitinché near the small city of Tixkokob. (Be careful of the spelling! There is also a Hacienda Kininché and some others spelled very similar to this one. See our YBR Theme Song …
Oxkintok is much older than most of the sites we visit, with its history beginning around 600 B.C.E. in the Early Classic Period. It was occupied for nearly 2,000 years, and has architecture from the Early, Late and Terminal Classic periods. There are examples of several different architectural styles, so it’s a fascinating place to explore! …
Although Yucatan Back Roads really is all about places to visit around our home state, we may occasionally venture out further into the Mayan world This trip so some sites near Chetumal was fascinating, and also contains some very important information should you choose to travel there! Let’s start with a couple of maps! This …
This beautiful place is at the south edge of the village of Tepakan, a few miles north of Izamal. There are several routes to drive there; we prefer taking the coast road to Telchac Puerto and heading south to Motul, then east through Suma and Teya. (More topes, about 10 minutes longer, but completely avoids …
Chenché de las Torres is a hacienda that goes back at least to the 18th century. But what makes it a destination is the main house, built in the 1890s in the style of a European castle. YBR has been hoping to get there ever since first hearing about it in late 2021; today was …
Nearly all of our trips so far have required driving to Merida and around the Periferico to reach the rural roads that we love. But not this amazing overnight adventure! I’ll lead this story right off with the map (go clockwise). Our trip began on the coast road east, way past the huge new condo …
We visited Los Tres Cenotes de Cuzamá during Christmas/New Years week 2021. Here’s a Google Maps link, and higher resolution versions of the photos are available on our Flickr page. Cuzamá is located just west of Homún, but these days is much less marketed. We chose the Los Tres Cenotes de Cuzamá. There would be …
The Ruta de los Conventos is one of Yucatan’s mapped tourist routes. This one takes you south of Merida on the Chetumal highway with stops at Acanceh, Tecoh, Telchaquillo, Z.A. Mayapán, Tekit, Mama, Chumayel, Teabo and Maní. We hit several of those on our two-day overnight trip just before Christmas 2021. There is a long, …