Story of Mexico: Visiting Tulum
公開日:2022/04/05 / 最終更新日:2022/04/05
As the beginning of March comes around yearly, headlines like “Spring Breakers Take Mexico” start occupying on-line newspapers, as well as numerous images from the beach, bars, eating places start overburdening your social media feeds. You might need discovered your self particularly questioning this year: What’s this place called Tulum. Tulum is a Mexican city only an hour drive away from the college student Spring Break hotspot Cancun. This comparatively newly found gem has change into extraordinarily well-liked for well-known individuals weekfinish get aways as well as many Spring Breakers. After drooling over photos of <1 greenback tacos, turquoise water, underwater cave escapades and temples final yr, my friends and I decided to decide on Tulum as our Spring Break 2019 destination. (Shout out to Dominican Republic, the second runner up in our decision making process).
2 years after this journey, the expertise I had in Tulum still feels surreal. One way to summarize the week is very high highs. Here is a list of places and activities that I one hundred% recommend.
Cenotes: Dos Ojos
A cenote is a naturally formed “underground” pool created when the roof of an underground cavern collapses. Tulum is famous for its cenotes as they aren’t only a once in a lifetime experience but additionally a terrific photograph opportunity (although make positive your phone is water proof, certainly one of my friends misplaced a phone as a result of water damage). I particularly recommend the tour we went on via Dos Ojos; we were greeted by a pleasant employees and acquired to see two cenotes for 30 dollars. The primary part of the tour features a private tour with a guide the place you go into the cave with lifejackets, snorkels and and flashlights provided to you. The guide leads you to a cave where you make your way by the depths of the underground pool by swimming. Here is a poorly lighted picture that we took within the cave. Quick disclaimer: those that are scared of the dark or confined areas would possibly need to rethink the primary cenote called Monkey. Without the flashlights, no natural light has access into the cave. Yet, a claustrophobe myself I managed to outlive!
The second cenote concerned in the tour is an outdoors cenote with a height from which my friends performed backflip jumps into the right green-blue water. I can’t say my cannon ball jumps had been as aesthetically pleasing…
2. The Mayan Temples
I know what you’re going to say: you went all of the way to Tulum and didn’t go to Chichen Itza, one of the 7 wonders of the world. Well, we had a limited number of days and it was a near three hour drive from our Airbnb. I do suggest that in case you are staying longer than I did that you just definitely make the trip! But, I did go to the second finest option there may be: Coba. It was a whole completely different expertise as it was 1) in the midst of the jungle (we rented bikes and made our way through the ruins singing on the top of our lungs on the bikes), 2) you possibly can really climb the biggest temple: Nohoch Mul, the highest pyramid within the Yucatan Peninsula. I’ll look completely satisfied on the picture of us on the top of the temple; however, let me inform you I was definitely not completely satisfied as I used to be making my way up given my minor panic attack as a result of my concern of heights). I’m so proud of myself for making it though, it was a breathtaking view!
3. Meals, food, food…
Tulum just isn’t just immensely aesthetically pleasing; it can also be a haven for amazing restaurants and bars. Oddly sufficient, top in your itinerary shouldn’t be one of many fancy eating places which can be a little high on the price range. The second you step foot on Tulum you need to end up a mini street peddler “Marquesita” truck. Marquesitas are a particular Mexican crepe/waffle with a wide range of topping options together with Nutella, dulce de leche, peanut butter, bananas, and even cheese. You’ll see how delightful it is to munch on considered one of these as a post-drinking snack.
For the bars you will see that every bar has a signature day they’re popular for: Gitano for Thursday Casa Jaguar for Friday. Locally really helpful for its passion fruit mojito was Batey, which me and my friends mispronounced your complete trip. Some beach/hotels that are highly really useful by different visitors of Tulum is Papaya Playa and Azulik; however, noticing the immense touristic interest in their hotel, they had elevated their entrance fee to 40 dollars when we went there. One place I recommend spending a whole day is Pablo Escobar’s mansion: great food, great staff, great visuals and nice sea. It has access to the lengthy beach strip, so while you’re there take a protracted walk in the beach during the sunset and watch the kite surfers.
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