Yaxchilán

Chiapas · Mexico

Yaxchilán, Mexico
Photo: Jacob Rus, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

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Best time to go
November to April
Budget
$$
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Reached by riverboat along the Usumacinta, this Maya city is set on a jungle bend and known for its carved lintels and labyrinthine main structure. Howler monkeys call from the canopy around its overgrown temples.

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