Tulum in Yucatan Mexico
Tulum offers all the best leisure activities in the Yucatan. Here you will find a good cultural offer with Mayan ruins, paradisiacal beaches and peculiar accommodations with all the comforts. Tulum is one of the best tourist destinations in Yucatan.
The Yucatan area has some very peculiar geological characteristics, thanks to them the area has a great number of cenotes and caves in the subsoil. The Yucatan is a great limestone slab where the creation of caves and cenotes in its interior is favourable. In the Tulum area there are several of them, the most important of which are: Gran Cenote, Cenote Dos Ojos and Cenote Aktun-Ha.
The cenotes of Tulum
In the Gran Cenote, one of the most important, located along the road from Coba to Tulum, situated next to other less important ones.
Tulum has several cenotes here we describe some of the best cenotes in Tulum for swimming and snorkelling.
The Gran Cenote is surrounded by exuberant and very exotic flora, it is possible to swim and even snorkel inside the cenote, the cenote itself leads to a very spectacular cave.
The Dos Ojos cenote is a beautiful place where the light makes impressive and beautiful effects, this cenote is the gateway to one of the longest cave systems in the world, this cave system exceeds 600 km. In this place we can find a great offer of excursions through the caves, it is without doubt one of the most beautiful places in Yucatan.
In Tulum we can also swim in another great cenote called Cenote Aktun-Ha, it is ideal for swimming in its ample space and to see different schools of fish in its interior, it is located next to a group of caves.
In Tulum there is a hippy zone, for lovers of simplicity, you can rent some of the cabins located on the beach, where the hippies used to live. We have to warn you that even though it is an exquisitely beautiful place, the comforts are those of a hippy stay, which is interesting and curious. So for those who want simplicity and nature you can enjoy the huts located on the road leading to the ruins.
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The Tulum Ruins in Yucatán
It was an important and prosperous walled commercial city, and at the arrival of the Spaniards in 1520 there was an active population that gave life to the city. In the city we find some easily recognisable places such as a main street, the palace of Halach Uinic and the house of the columns.
We also found a very important and very old Mayan construction, a temple in the form of a pyramid, which was crowned by a flame that served as a lighthouse and was visible from several kilometres away.
Leisure and Beach in Tulum (Yucatan)
In Tankah we find a good offer of leisure and beach, it is accessed by a road full of curves, it is a beach little urbanised and very quiet but we can find a bar and a restaurant, as well as a cenote to visit.
We can find a wide variety of accommodation on the beaches of Tulum, from the most hippie and candlelit to the most luxurious with electricity and in select locations, the typical of the area is to stay in cabins, we can choose the category we want, there is a lot of choice.
Cabana accommodation is in high demand so we must be proactive when booking our stay in Tulum.
Xel-Ha is the perfect place to go snorkelling and see a multitude of tropical fish, as well as a walk through the surrounding forest.
The town of Tulum until recently retained the essence of a Mayan village, but in recent years it has been modernised and has most of the services that a colony of tourists might need, such as banks, buses, hotels, bars and restaurants.
