While we were traveling through Yucatan peninsula, we’ve visited many of Maya sites. The first one, and for me also the most spectacular, was that one in Tulum, Quintana Roo.
The place seems to be out of this world. Great pre-Columbian Mayan walled city covered with green, majestically looking down to perfectly turquoise water of Caribbean Sea.
The view was so amazing. First time in my life such an intense feeling hits me. I was totally enchanted and I started to cry. I don’t know why. Maybe coz of its beauty or it was excitement. I really don’t know, but that place opened my heart for new experiences. I felt wanderlust there and since then I am not able to stop travelling and exploring world’s beauty. I so love it.
The ruins situated on 12-meter (39 ft) tall cliffs along the east coast of the Yucatan Peninsula are one of the last built by the Mayans, and its archaeological sites are best-preserved of all. Go there and see El Castillo, the Temple of the Frescoes, and the Temple of the Descending God.
Served as a major port for Coba, Tulum was one of the last cities built and inhabited by the Maya. When Spanish settlers brought some Old world diseases which have resulted in very high fatalities, eventually caused that the city became abandoned.
After sightseeing in such a hot climate you may easily go down wooden stairs and dive into chill water. Small beach was really crowded but still adorable.
Close to the place you have great Cenote Dos Ojos so you can also snorkel inside of caves in the middle of a forest.
We went to the nearest beach El Paraiso. It was perfectly calm day in a heavenly beach. Zero people, just two of us and the sea. We were in Mexico off season but I would never expect that such a beautiful place will be so empty. Good for us. We had the beach almost only for ourselves. Just another day in paradise !
In the pueblo we found a lot of Las Catrinas, an iconic figure in Mexican culture representing death and the way Mexicans deal with it. Originally created by Jose Guadalupe Posada and later named and dressed up by Diego Rivera.
And I found my Mexican boyfriend. Totally for free! (if you are a single girl and been to Mexico, you will understand :)
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