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9 Best Places to Visit in Mexico
Offering gorgeous beaches, world-class food, culture, nature and adventure, these places in Mexico are ones you’ll remember forever.
Beguiling and best-preserved Maya ruins

“Palenque, also anciently known in the Itzaʼ language as Lakamha, was a Maya city-state in southern Mexico that perished in the 8th century. The Palenque ruins date from ca. 226 BC to ca. 799 AD. After its decline, it was overgrown by the jungle of cedar, mahogany, and sapodilla trees, but has since…”