We left early and drove down to Tulum. It is a small site, especially compared to Chichen Itza, but it is right on the water, and so is very beautiful. It also has a very intact city wall, through which you enter the site, and it is probably 25 feet thick where the tunnel is to enter. There was nothing spectacular about the buildings, except that they are gorgeous set on the cliffs about the green sea. We saw quite a bit of wildlife - lots of iguanas and birds.
 House of the Cenote?
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 House of the Cenote.
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 El Castillo.
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 Looking through the fortified wall.
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 El Castillo.
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 Cliffs and sea.
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 Ted in front of the sea.
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 Watchtower temple on the seafront.
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 Watchtower temple with other ruins in the foreground.
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 Unknown building.
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 El Castillo.
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 House of the Columns.
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 Looking into House of the Columns.
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 Detail on the Great Palace (?)
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 Watchtower temple.
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 Looking across to a nearby fishing village.
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 Ted and Tamara at Tulum.
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 Watchtower temple.
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Flowers | ||
 Unknown flower 1.
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 Unknown flower 2.
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Birds and butterflies | ||
 Unknown butterfly 1.
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 Unknown bird 1.
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 Unknown bird 1.
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 Unknown bird 1 in flight.
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 Unknown bird 2.
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 Unknown bird 2.
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 Hoffmann's Woodpecker (Melanerpes hoffmannii).
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 Great-tailed Grackle (Quiscalus mexicanus). Very chatty bird.
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 Female Great-tailed Grackle.
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 Unknown bird 3.
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 Unknown bird 3.
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 Unknown bird 3.
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 Unknown bird 3.
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 Unknown bird 4.
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Iguanas | ||
 Black spinytail iguana (Ctenosaura similis).
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 Another black iguana.
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 Black iguana.
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