Playa Paraiso is the main beach in Tulum, but seeing as one sandy stretch rolls into the next, it’s impossible to pick a bad spot. Walk (or cycle) downtown. While the beach is what draws ...

Travelers should exercise common sense when traveling in the downtown area ... That being said, Tulum occasionally sees violent crime, though it's not usually against tourists.

Sitting on a patch of rocky coastline just east of Tulum's downtown, the site showcases several templos (temples) and castillos (castles) from the once-thriving pre-Columbian Mayans. The area isn ...

Back in the early ’90s, Tulum was a sleepy pueblo on Mexico’s Riviera Maya, a day trip from a hotel in Playa del Carmen or Cancún to see the ruins and walk around downtown. But by the end of ...