Tulum Travel

Tulum Mexico is a must visit. It is located 130km/86 mi south of Cancun. Tulum archaeological site is relatively small in comparison with many other Mayan sites in the area, but is very popular due to its proximity to the modern touristic developments along the Mexican Caribbean in the called Riviera Maya and Cancun.

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During his fourth voyage to the New World in 1502, Christopher Columbus came across a heavily laden Mayan trading canoe near the Bay Islands in Honduras. Packed with cotton from the Yucatán, cacao from Belize and a variety of other goods from faraway places, the canoe is testimony to the size and importance of the [...]

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The coast road south of the Tulum “hotel zone” leads to the entrance of the Sian Ka’an Biosphere Reserve. Straddling northern and central Quintana Roo, this UNESCO World Heritage Site comprises 1.3 million acres of jungle, marsh, mangrove forest, Caribbean beaches and a 110-kilometer-stretch of coral reef, all of which are rich in flora and [...]

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A 20-minute drive to the south of Tulum lies Muyil, also known as Chunyaxche, an archaeological site in the forest on the shores of a lagoon that shares the same name. The largest archaeological site found to date in the Sian Ka’an Biosphere Reserve, Muyil was an ancient trade enclave with links to cities in [...]

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Embark on your own jungle adventure! Forty-two kilometers inland from Tulum, an hour from Playa del Carmen and a 90-minute drive from Cancún, Cobá is one of the Maya World’s largest archaeological sites and has an extension of around 70 square kilometers. The city is clustered around five shallow lakes, which would have provided fresh [...]

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