One of the newest resorts to open on the Yucatan Peninsula may also be one of the most intriguing. Chablé Resort, located some 25 miles from Merida, comes as a welcome segue from many of the mass-marketed golf and family resorts on the Riviera Maya and the quaint, but less sophisticated boutique properties scattered about the coastal by-ways of the Yucatan on the Gulf of Mexico.

The luxury resort opened this week with 40 ultra deluxe villas and 750 acres of Mayan forest to create a private retreat that not only takes guests back in time, it slows time down to a long, drawn breath. READ MORE …