Tickets and Cheap Travel From Anywhere: Travel to the Mayan Ruins of Tulum, Mexico: Tulum, considered by many as the most beautiful of the Mayan Ruins sites around Cancun, is small but exquisitely poised on the fifteen-meter-high cliffs above the azure waters of the Caribbean Sea. Tulum isn't the largest or most impressive of the Mayan Ruins of the Yucatan, but thanks to the awe-inspiring setting, it sticks in the memory like no other. It is also the nearest to Cancun.
The biggest attraction to Tulum is the setting - high atop a palm-lined cliff top overlooking azure blue water and brilliant white sand beaches. We first visited six years ago - Sandra still calls this the most beautiful place she's ever seen - and we have been to a lot of great places. Tulum means "Wall" in Mayan - a name given to it because it is a walled city. Originally from the Classic period, evidence dates it back to 564 A.D. Between 1200AD and 1500AD, Tulum was a major trade hub for the Mayas. As with most of the Mayan cities, Tulum was conquered by the Spanish Conquistadors in about 1518AD
The biggest attraction to Tulum is the setting - high atop a palm-lined cliff top overlooking azure blue water and brilliant white sand beaches. We first visited six years ago - Sandra still calls this the most beautiful place she's ever seen - and we have been to a lot of great places. Tulum means "Wall" in Mayan - a name given to it because it is a walled city. Originally from the Classic period, evidence dates it back to 564 A.D. Between 1200AD and 1500AD, Tulum was a major trade hub for the Mayas. As with most of the Mayan cities, Tulum was conquered by the Spanish Conquistadors in about 1518AD
