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. Rather, Chablé puts 40 ultra deluxe villas and spreads them upon 750 acres of Mayan forest to create a private retreat that not only takes guests back in time, it slows it down to a long slow draw.   READ MORE …