Acanceh

After swimming in Chunkanán’s three cenotes, we felt energized enough to stop in at nearby Acanceh before returning to Mérida. This small town is one of the oldest Maya sites in the Yucatán, and one of the few to retain its original Maya name.

Archaeologists date the ruins of Acanceh to 300 AD and the dawn of the Classic Era. At this stage in Maya history, the great cities were much further south in Guatemala and the Chiapas region of Mexico. And there’s reason to suspect that early Acanceh wa...