Get facts, photos, and travel tips for Chichen Itza, a World Heritage site in Mexico, from National Geographic.

You can take the ADO bus to Chichen Itza from Playa del Carmen; it departs around 8:15 a.m. from the ADO station on 5th Avenue, but the ride will often take more than 3.5 hours due to the many ...

Travelers who are keen on seeing Chichen Itza will have to contend with heavy-duty crowds: The site had more than 2.7 million visitors last year and is infamous for its parking lot jammed with ...

The Sacred Cenote of Chichén Itzá. According to both Maya and post-Conquest Spanish sources, the Maya deposited valuables and human sacrifices into the cenote as a form of sacrifice to the rain ...

Archaeologists in Mexico have uncovered an intricately carved stone they believe was used as a scoreboard for pelota, a ball game played by the Maya hundreds of years ago. The circular stone was ...