Campeche, Mexico is a colorful city and a UNESCO World Heritage site. The old town is still surrounded by the city walls that protected this peaceful plaza from pirates.

Izamal, Mexico on the Yucatan peninsula is known as both “The Yellow City” and “The City of Hills”. The first nickname is obvious as many of the buildings in the town including [...]

One thing that I like about this shot of Uxmal is that you can tell from this shot how the ruins rise out of the jungle of the Yucatan. This pyramid at [...]

Sometimes Chichen Itza feels more like an outdoor market than Mayan ruins as the site is filled with vendors. This vendor was selling colorful ceramics.

The Amateur Traveler talks again to Photographer Ralph Velasco about the state of Chihuahua in Mexico. Ralph was recently on assignment throughout Mexico but this region made the biggest impact on him. [...]

The bastions at Campeche still look ready to protect this colonial Mexican city from pirates. They are one of the reasons that this city is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Along the seaside in Playa del Carmen are a number of bars, including this one with very comfortable looking lounge chairs.

One of the unique aspects of the ruins at Coba in Mexico’s Yucatan is that there are three main sites and they are far enough apart that many visitors rent bikes to [...]

This shot of the central cathedral in Compeche, Mexico is framed by one of the arches of the gazebo in the central square. This was not a photographic choice so much as [...]

After the great pyramid of Chichen Itza, the second most iconic building is probably the observatory (El Caracol) used during the first period when the Mayan’s inhabited Chichen Itza. It was built [...]