(CNN) — The ancient city of Palenque in the state of Chiapas, Mexico, was among the most powerful Maya cities in the Classic Period of Maya civilization (250 CE -- 900 CE), alongside Tikal in ...

When Andrea Lozano, a 31-year-old Mexican food blogger, found out Taco Palenque had arrived in Monterrey, Mexico, she knew she wanted to review it. Taco Palenque tasted of her childhood. It was her ...

Centuries ago, escaped slaves built isolated forts in the jungles that surround Cartagena, once Colombia's main port for incoming slaves. Today, the Afro-Colombian inhabitants of San Basilio de ...

San Basilio de Palenque celebrates its heritage in murals around the town. Photograph: Ever Mercado/The Guardian San Basilio de Palenque calls itself ‘the first free Black territory in the Americas’ – ...

One day in the late 1980s, Juan Francisco Ochoa Sr. meandered through an H-E-B in Laredo. His new restaurant, Taco Palenque, didn’t have a menu yet, but he had a vision. A bell had rung—the same one ...

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 ...

As I pushed open the passenger door and stepped out of the air-conditioned Toyota Fortuner, my senses were immediately overwhelmed. Humidity clung to the back of my neck. The sweet scent of nearby ...

Hotel Villa Mercedes, Carretera Palenque Ruinas km 2.9, 29960 Palenque, +52 916 345 5231 Where to eat Found just at the end of the road out from the archeological site, Maya Cañada is, apparently, ...

The ancient city of Palenque in the state of Chiapas, Mexico, was among the most powerful Maya cities in the Classic Period of Maya civilization (250 CE – 900 CE), alongside Tikal in modern-day ...