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Tulum offers the perfect combination of total relaxation, tranquility and seclusion, yet fill your day with the many interesting and rich activities in the area. The little town of Tulum is slowly developing to offer various services (like an Internet Cafe for example) phone service, and more. There are several very good local restaurants and a few on the beach in the various properties in the hotel area on the beach that are absolutely wonderful and still very cost effective.
Accommodations in Tulum range from rustic cabanas to grand all inclusives on pristine beaches. Thi is a slower paced vacation. Give yourself the break.
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You will find Tulum about 1 hour drive south of Playa del Carmen and only 25 minutes south of Akumal. We recommend combining Tulum with your travel to the area and spending a couple of days in one of the quiet and secluded spots you will find there.
For a bunch of old stone buildings, Tulum is a particularly impressive site, perched as it is high on top of limestone cliffs that spill down to the turquoise waters of the Caribbean below. The first time we entered the modest walled city, it took our breath away. El Castillo, a large temple, is the site's biggest structure. Regrettably, it was off limits to climb this last time we were there. But the nearby Temple of the Descending God is accessible. If there are not too many people around it's a wonderful feeling to sit in the sun on the temple's platform with the waves crashing below and imagine what it must have been like years ago. If you time your visit for early morning or late afternoon you'll be blessed with fewer crowds.
Tulum is not a particularly important city to archeologists. A Late Post- Classic city, the style of architecture is nowhere near the complexity of the Classic period. By that time in history the building arts and stone cutting skills of the Maya had degraded and much use was made of heavy stucco to cover any rough spots. But what Tulum lacks in architectural style it more than makes up for in location. It is now the most visited archeological site in all of Mexico, with busloads of tourists coming from Canc£n and cruise ships docked at Cozumel or Playa. Even its first tourist, John Lloyd Stephens, American author and adventurer who toured the Yucat n in the early 1840s, was impressed: 'Besides the deep and exciting interest of the ruins themselves, we had around us what we wanted at all the other places, the magnificence of nature.... We had found this one of the most interesting places we had seen in our whole exploration of ruins.'
The walls on three sides enclosing the city may have been defensive, as they average 18 feet thick and are between nine and 15 feet high. Entrance is via one of the original five tunnels through the wall. Guides are available outside at the new visitor's center that's complete with snack bars and gift shops. A troop of brightly dressed Los Olmecas Ototonacos de Veracruz Native Americans perform ceremonial twirling dances while hanging upside-down from a huge flagpole. A word of caution if you're driving a car: The parking lot has odd-angled stone walls that, if you're not careful, can scrape the body as you maneuver.
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