{"id":644,"date":"2011-02-17T22:43:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-18T04:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/?p=644"},"modified":"2025-11-03T11:30:22","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T15:30:22","slug":"day-trip-to-tulum-and-tankah-bay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/?p=644","title":{"rendered":"Day Trip to Tulum and Tankah Bay"},"content":{"rendered":"

We left at 8 AM to drive down to see the Mayan Ruins at Tulum. Even though it is the second most visited ruin in Mexico, this was our first visit.<\/p>\n

There are a few more pictographs carved in stone than some other Mayan sites, but they don\u2019t photograph well, so here is an example of the carving at the Temple of the Frescoes.<\/p>\n

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Claude and Mags have a nice truck which allows us to visit the area attractions without taking public transportation. Here they are with Peggy having entered the portal through the walls surrounding the site.<\/p>\n

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Here is a view looking toward El Castillo.<\/p>\n

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A closer view of El Castillo<\/p>\n

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Tulum is not a large Mayan site but it has spectacular views.\u00a0 El Castillo sits on a cliff directly above the Turquoise ocean.<\/p>\n

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You could walk down these stairs to the white sand beach called Boca Pela directly below El Castillo.<\/p>\n

Here is a good tip. Get to Tulum early in the morning, so that you can avoid the crowds that arrive starting at around 9:30AM.<\/p>\n

It’s also cooler in the early morning.<\/p>\n

They average about 10,000 visitors a day during the winter months so the place is crawling with tourists by mid-day.<\/p>\n

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Below is a view looking to the North along the ocean.<\/div>\n
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\u00a0The ruins are crawling with very tame iguanas of every size and shape.<\/div>\n
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Mags & Peggy enjoy the Bougainvillea along the path.\u00a0\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

After our morning at Tulum we drove back toward Xpu-Ha but decided to stop at Tankah Bay where friends of Claude and Mags, Glen & Maureen from Alberta, CA, had purchased three ocean front lots and moved their 5th Wheel in while they work on improvements. Here is a view from the water of their spread.<\/p>\n

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We left at 8 AM to drive down to see the Mayan Ruins at Tulum. Even though it is the second most visited ruin in Mexico, this was our first visit. There are a few more pictographs carved in stone than some other Mayan sites, but they don\u2019t photograph well, so here is an example … Continue reading Day Trip to Tulum and Tankah Bay<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3638,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1011trip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=644"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7165,"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644\/revisions\/7165"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}