Tulum, Mexico Travel Blogs

En route five hours ago
Jul 30, 2005

... cabana. I thought it would be nice to actually make a stop in Mexico instead of, you know, just heading straight to Belize. I landed in Mexico, might as well make the best of it. So I went to the bus station and saw that there were only two buses to Tulum. ...

An eastern Mexico domination...
Dec 31, 2006 (82 photos)

... . Probably. The colony of hippies - I think known as a 'joint' of hippies, makes for a karma-filled retreat from Mexico's general madness. Brilliant. Caipirinha it up... IV - It's clearly NFL playoff time Please find below a list of quotes from ...

Why mesh tents and windy beaches donīt mix
Oct 1, 2006 (6 photos)

We said good bye to Isla Mujeres and hopped a bus to Tulum. When we got there we went to a hostel that was supposed to have luggage storage, it didnīt. So now we went out to the beach to find some cheap camping or bungalows. We ended up at a place called El ...

Tulum Schmulum...
Jan 7, 2007

as

3 countries, 2 routes, 1 boring trip, 0 pesos
Aug 12, 2005

... by a few stops along the way at customs or what we here might call a "rest stop" or "oasis". When I finally got to the Belize/Mexico border it was in the afternoon. I was hungry and hot. I bought an ice cream. In fact, I think I got a second one after I ...

beach, ruins, fish....sweet
Apr 12, 2006 (4 photos)

... Xilbalba.... - got a ride back to rancho tranquillo with one of the pioneers of the cenote diving (and owner of Hidden Worlds, the company we went with); had some interesting stories... Tulum has changed quite a bit in 20 years by the sound of things.

Mayan Ruins
Mar 30, 2004 (4 photos)

Today we explored the 4000 year old Mayan ruins of Tulum. They are perched right on a cliff overlooking the Caribbean sea and are most impressive. The people who lived here also had their own beach so I went for swim in the warm clear water while looking ...

Tulum
Sep 21, 2007 (2 photos)

... seen them a few years ago.  Remembered they were nice but thought that all the fuss was because it was just nearby the ocean.  Tulum have a fantastic, pretty big white sand beaches.  Very expensive thought and did not venture too long there.

Moving on...
Mar 29, 2004

Finally I left Isla Mujeres for Tulum. I am still traveling with Mick and Aaron from Oz and Cheryl from S Africa. We checked in to Hotel El Crucero which is pretty cheap and right down the road from the Mayan ruins that make Tulum a worthwhile place to ...

The most beautiful place I have ever been
Aug 9, 2006 (20 photos)

... a short journey up to Corozal and then onto Tulum by bus. Everyone I had met while travelling around had raved about Tulum, but the place excided our expectations. The place is just spectacular. We are staying in beech huts which open straight out onto ...

No More American Spring Break Glitz
Mar 9, 2007 (1 photos)

... Mexican coast rather than inland.  We also wanted to experience the beach without all the American spring break glitz and finally Tulum looked like the definite place to relax.  It was also important to stay in a place that was likely to have ...

Tulum & Playa del Carmen
Nov 29, 2006 (32 photos)

... as I did and I would love to hear from you in my guest book. Adios, Schlossie PS: One last funny (?) story about Mexico.  You better plan on going soon, Mayan's predict the end of the world for 12/21/2012.  Well.. really they are ...

Livin' la vida loca
Jun 9, 2003 (14 photos)

... get the best hammocks in the world and is good for visiting Chichen Itza, the most well known of all the Mayan sites in Mexico. The pyramid is perfect and the architecture was amazing, climbed up it, round it, inside it, up it again, was very nice. ...

Things are a little different than they ...
Dec 26, 2002 (1 photos)

... seems to fall into place and you get where you want to, although not always the way you originally imagined. Backpacking in Mexico means revising the luxury standards again. After the luxury of Canada and the US, itīs now more like is there running ...

White sand and turquoise waters
May 7, 2007 (14 photos)

... even hid my backpack the last day so I would not go!       While I was hanging out in Tulum I check out some seaside Mayan ruins and some located deeper in in the jungle in Coba.  Both ruins were in impressive since they ...

Paradise Found -- Tulum
Nov 18, 2001 (3 photos)

... there. Today we took the early bus to Tulum, 4hrs south of Cancun. We got off the bus at the road to the Tulum Ruinas, Juliette's LP mexico was little out of date, and we walked for ages under the hot sun until we found our Cabana-- El Mirador. Tulum ...

tulum ruins
Feb 1, 2007

... mayan language, and it used to also be known as Zama or "dawn." it was one of the major comerical ports between central mexico and honduras, and is one of the most contemporary ruins of the mayan. the people who lived inside the walls were of the elite ...

Tulum
Jul 20, 2008

... worry about anything. This relaxing way of life became very easy to get used to and so we ended up spending an extra day in Tulum getting to know some lovely people there. The third night we were there it was ladies night across the road at a bar with ...

Tulum
Nov 16, 2004

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Tulum
Jan 20, 2007

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Day 6: Why shower when you have an ocean?
Jun 20, 2009 (3 photos)

... . We walked the rest of the way along the beach, watching more of the fortress city appear out of the trees the closer we got. Tulum used to be a walled port town, with a sacred cenote and a Temple on a bluff overlooking the sea. Basically, I want to live ...

Tulum
Dec 3, 2007 (11 photos)

Tulum is a sleepy little town of about 15,000 people - about 2 hours south of Cancun. It has a very transient population, as it is almost always used by backpackers and the like on their way further south to the Belizean border and onward. The ...

La ruine a Tulum...
Aug 21, 2006 (8 photos)

... climatise...ok partout..ca pour ca c vraiment different de l Australie...la clim est bcp plus "inexistante"!!! Enfin bon revenons a Tulum...jolie petite ville avec des jolies plages...le sable est tres tres blanc et l eau plutot bleue bleue...et chaude ...

Tulum or bust
Feb 28, 2009

... a bit rough but all went well. Arrived in Cancun at 3pm.  Managed to make our way through the drama of getting a taxi to Tulum.  The regulated fee was 155 us.  Once we had two drivers fighting over us we finally got a ride with a speed demon ...

Isla-Tulum
Aug 12, 2007 (10 photos)

... was a great four days and i made some amazing new friends in Casey(Chicago)  and Stephanie (Montreal). Right now I am in Tulum, Mexico famous for its Mayan ruins on the beach, cenotes, and beach. However it rained last night so we stayed and had some ...

Sorry, this is supposed to make you jealous!
Apr 4, 2007 (2 photos)

Easter Sunday, lying on the beach in Tulum...spent a few days on this amazing beach. There are Mayan ruins here too and thousands of Mexicans bringing everything to the beach including the kitchen sink. It was divine though... As Iīve just started this ...

Tulum and Cancun
Oct 12, 2008 (13 photos)

This morning, we took the bikes from the B&B to go to the Tulum ruins, just 3km away, by the beach. On our way, my tire just burst (more exploded actually) and Sean went back to change the bike. Then we got caught in some heavy rain, and Sean ...

Playa Del Carmen/ Tulum
Dec 24, 2004

cruise

Cancun revisited, Chichen Itza, Coba, Tulum
May 29, 2007 (7 photos)

... we arrived early afternoon and it was a scorching hot day with very little shade. But it was fantastic. Very different to the ruins in Mexico City, it felt much more like a town with a nunery, church, markets, baths lots of temples, and a ball court. ...

Still in Tulum
Mar 5, 2009

... sitting down to our last coffee at Uolis Nah in Tulum be fore moving to our cheaper accommodations at Rancho Tranquilo which is also in Tulum. This was all part of the plan to stay in a nice place to get us started, then move to a more budget oriented ...