The first thing I see when I open my eyes at 6:30 in the morning is the mosquito netting over the bed. I wake up in my transparent cave, listening to the waves pound the beach outside my door. Resort marketing materials always seem to have photographs of a room with the big, comfortable, romantic [...]
Photo Of The Day: The Ghost Of Tulum
The ghost peered out the door and across the ruins at me. I saw him from many different spots as I snaked my way through the site. Part Caspar, part ancient Maya, parts that never left the the building. I don’t think anyone else around me ever noticed this face as I was the only [...]
Photo Of The Day: Tulum Touristas
Here they are. They start arriving everyday around 11am and tour the grounds in packs. They all always seem to look alike. They look like they belong together. When I took this photo I was beginning to feel surrounded and felt like gunning for the gate. I think I even got sucked in to taking [...]
Photo Of The Day: Palapa Roof
The roof in my cabana on Tulum Playa was made from woven palm fronds. The scent of the thatch is both airy and pleasantly earthy. This kind of roof is found all over The Yucatan covering homes, bars, restaurants, and open sided constructions and is usually made up of multiple layers of thatch. While many [...]
Photo Of The Day: Painting In The Temple Of The Frescoes
It is rare to find mural work in the Maya archaeological sites. A lot of it has been carted off far and wide and is only available to view in museum settings, separated from its place of creation. For some of those pieces this has been a good way to exist – under the watchful [...]
Photo of The Day: Downward Descending God
Every archaeological site in the Maya world has at least one iconic item that, when listed all together, creates a list for a Maya scavenger hunt. At the site in Tulum, the focus of the scavenger hunt is the Downward Descending God. Since I tend to travel without information, I did not know about the [...]
Photo Of The Day: Tulum Sunrise
It’s not often that you will see this photographer up at sunrise. But when in Tulum, it’s not only me that arises with a smile on my face at that time of day. There is no such thing as sleeping in when visiting Tulum playa. Gone to bed with the sun and wake with the [...]
Tulum: The Walled City
‘The Tulum ruins are that way.’ said the young woman at the front desk of Zahra. She pointed in the general direction of the archaeological site and continued, ‘At the end of the road. You can take a taxi, or rent a bike …’ I interrupted her by saying, ‘No, I’d like to walk.’ She [...]
