You guys there's an iguana right there!
Welcome to Tulum this is one of the most picturesque archeological sites in
Mexico built by the Mayans it was built as one of their last cities and a major
trading center today we're going to learn the history explore the temples in
the magnificent Beach. Let's go check it out.
We are heading to the ruins of Tulum.
Walking through this kind of souvenir area to get there.
Parque Nacional Tulum
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3,000 years of civilization
The Yucatan peninsula is composed
by three different states the pink one that is right here near to the coast
Quintana Roo State is where we are right now well that is the meaning of Tulum
"city protected by walls" but that is not the original name of the place. The
Mayas provide that name to the place in the 1845 right here on the Yucatan
Peninsula we have a civil war so the - just to hide themselves inside of Tulum
so that's a reason why they provide that name to the place but the original name of the
place of Tulum used to be Zama that means sunrise and well the place used to
have the name between the 11th century until the 16th century when was that
when the Mayas used to live around here Tulum and used to use this place
as a pilgrim place for a commercial port. So when the Ceiba tree start growing sub create a
three-dimensional world where the branches represents the Superworld the
trunk represents the middle eternal world where we live and the root
represents underworld or the Xibalba okay that's the name that
the majors used to provide to the underworld, Xibalba.
it's very difficult to find water because we're made of limestone so we're like
a big sponge, so that's a reason why we are missing off rivers or lakes on
the surface all the fresh water is in underground rivers in all that Yucatan
Peninsula we have around 1,000 miles of underground rivers
so we're full of that are like the veins inside of the Yucatan Peninsula so when
the ceiba tree finally found the water catch it and keep it inside okay any
questions so far? There's water in there? Its not exactly
like a lot of water but keeps water easy but please don't think that the Mayas
used to take the water from here not because it's considered a sacred tree
it's an axis mundi something that when during the three levels of the universe
so if you cut it you cut the path of the gut so okay so on these days we continue
protected to save a tree so we're are not allowed to cut it if we cut it we go
to the jail the hotels and the buildings and everything around if they found a
ceiba tree, they have two build around the tree or just transplant the tree to
another place. But we are not allowed to cut it.
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what is that? Coati
The original walls have a size of around 15 and 18 feet. Now we go
through the walls and enter - Tulum. We have reached Tulum - this is a famous Mayan pilgrimage site
on the coast . The Mayas used to sacrifice the people when they need to ask big favors
to all the civilization. One of the beaches in Tulum is a protected beach
for sea turtles. These right here used to be houses made of organic materials such
as palm and wood and this was also used as a treating center and they traded
different materials such as obsidian they had no gold here but they also
traded fish.
So this was built in the 1200s at the end of the Mayan period.
You can touch it if you want. It's really soft. This is like a Mayan rabbit.
Came from the Ceiba tree family, each 2 years
on December lose the leaves blossom and on February produce a fruit
like this one okay and inside of the fruit is a cotton okay so they use
to collect it and they used to bargain in a natural way and each civilization
used to produce the things that they need like sheets of clothes okay well
this is the kind of cotton that the mayor's used to use and well about the
precious stone that we was talking about this is obsidian is one of the most
system for the malleus the Magus didn't get obsidian Russia and the Yucatan
Peninsula or in the Mayan Kingdom why it's a volcanic stone so this came from
the center of the country right here on Mexico so they used to bargain not only
between the mayors also with another civilizations so this served as an
astronomical clock it told them when the summer solstice was happening and it
signaled a new cycle and this tallest tower was called the castillo and then
that little hole right there it told all of their friends who are trading with
them about how to enter to avoid the coral reef and any of their enemies that
entered another way got crushed by the world
our guide told us that these temples were painted the color red which is a
symbol of power and superiority and you could identify that people based on
colors red meaning superior blue meaning lower class. So to construct the temples
they use limestone which is prevalent in this region and they also use stucco
There's an iguana right there
That's the coast
This beach is so cool but very touristed.
the water is kind of cold
60 degrees F.
the surf is mild today so we could go in
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what a way to start New Year's Day we went swimming in here and we're so lucky
because sometimes sometimes the surf is very rough and they don't let you swim
in here so today nice calm waters
and up here there's iguanas everywhere
I guess I'll never be down the line look at how many people visit Cancun per year
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