Tulum

Photo courtesy of Arqueología Mexicana.

Modest in size, Tulum more than makes up for that! Just wait until you see its temples rising from the highest point of land on the Yucatan Peninsula - a cliff overlooking the azure Caribbean - and a palm-fringed beach. Tulum's original Mayan name was "Zama," which means the City Of The Dawn. That should tell you it's a great place to watch the sun rise over the sea. Tulum is surrounded by a wall - and it's the only known walled city by the ocean that the Mayans ever constructed. Tulum's temples were observed by the Spanish, as they sailed by on an exploratory expedition led by Juan de Grijalva in 1518.

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