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Bailey, Chris, Travis, and I visited these ruins one afternoon. It was a gorgeous day and apparently there weren't that many visitors to Tulum that day, but it seemed like there were a lot of people there to me. It was pretty cool.
- Tulum lighthouse 3
- By the time we were done at Tulum the lines (and the crowds) had become much larger.
- Walking down into Tulum
- Roof pillars. These were not tall people.
- You can see clearly the height of the first floor of this building. The thatch is protecting a mural on the second floor.
- A recently built thatch hut at Tulum, looking off to the ocean.
- "El Castillo" and a shot of the crowds.
- Ruins. The thatched roof there is to protect some fragile part of the structure.
- Looking east from the NW corner turret (towards the ocean).
- A slanted walkway leads up to worn pillars and a door to the inside of this building (we couldn't go up there).
- More cool columns 2
- The cemetary. This was where they laid their dead to rest. They couldn't bury them because of ground conditions, but apparentl
- Steps to nowhere.
- The entrance from the inside.
- More cool columns 3