Tuesday at Tulum

We are standing inside Tulum. El Castillo, the principal shrine, is over Phil's left shoulder



Fred is standing at the El Castillo with a different shrine appearing on the ridge beyond him. Tulum was principally a trading post. Large canoes used the beach to bring ashore their goods.



Alexander is the blue-shirted figure in the foreground. This is the narrow beach below El Castillo.



Walled on three sides, Tulum is positioned on a high limestone cliff above the sea.



When the structures at Tulum were redisovered in the 1840s they were overgrown with vegetation. When first built they were covered in white stucco and painted bright colors and covered with heroic frescos.



This a view of the front of El Castillo behind Fred and Alexander.