is it safe to travel to tulum solo my goal in this week's video is to share with you what my
experience was like tips if you want to do it so that you can make the best decision for yourself
adulting and if you're new here hi i'm christine with wearing the world is CL i make travel videos
every week to help you get up get out and go travel so if you like the travel consider
subscribing one of the first things to know about tulum is that there is not a lot of infrastructure
it's not some big city on a grid and so one thing to know is where you decide to stay has a huge
impact on how you might feel about safety let me give you a couple examples if you decide to
stay in tulum town for example depending on where you are in town if you're on the main road you're
great it's really well lit there it's a lot of tourists there's a lot of people at all hours
of the day and there's a bike lane on the main road but if you decide to venture off the main
road and stay somewhere else know that there's not going to be a lot of street lights or some of the
roads because there's so much construction going on there as they're building up tourism your road
might not be paved one thing to know about this place is there's no uber and even though there's
a ton of taxis you're going to have to walk out to the main road to be able to go catch a cab
if you want to go somewhere so if you're staying somewhere deep into town where there is not paved
roads that might be a challenge for safety if you're just trying to go out however one of the
things that's cool about tulum is that it's a biking town in other words everyone here loves
to ride bikes that does not mean it's a safe thing to do so i have other videos about here about what
it's like riding a bike but if you're comfortable riding a bike it's a great way to get around when
you're traveling solo and especially if you're staying deep into town because you can get around
so quickly so when i stayed in tulum in november 2020 i stayed at four different places and link
in the description below i gave a full tour of all the places i stayed at but one of the first spots
was kind of deep into tulum town and so you can expect the really high big gate to get in
and i'm i'm pretty good at scaling walls um but these walls were really high and had the spikes
at the top so it's the this is the type of vibe of what it's like staying deep in a tulum town which
i felt perfectly fine staying out there again i was riding a bike very quickly to and from
or running to and from my hotel and that's what helped me to feel safe as a solo female traveler
yeah you will be catcalled by the locals but it never felt aggressive if you simply ignore it then
it's not really a big deal versus other places i've traveled to like in playa del carmen
they are very aggressive and they will come up to you when they're cat calling you and that made me
feel unsafe but that didn't happen for me until then which to be honest i felt safer in tulum
than i did imply to del carmen and if you want a video on that tell me in the description below
which by the way if you're getting some value out of this video cheers that like button and
consider subscribing let's talk about the beach and if you decide to stay on the beach as a solo
traveler i break this down in my video about 17 things i didn't know about tulum but the beach is
broken up by the north side and the south side and i stayed on the south side because it's the more
poppin area of the beach and so i was mainly doing the day clubs and going to day clubs
felt perfectly safe there's tons of tourists all over the beach and so day clubbing perfectly fine
going out at night i think that was a little bit different because there's no lights
on that road on that south beach and it's not paved and so while at the places i was at i felt
safe walking on a road in which nobody is around at all may not feel totally safe so that was just
my opinion of what it was like so i spent most of my time going out on the beach during the day and
not necessarily at night all right let's jump to talking about transportation because this is
another huge factor for what makes me feel safe when i'm traveling alone when i flew into cancun
airport alone i took the ado bus down to tulum and one of the things for me that i'm wary about with
public transportation and buses is my luggage because they take your luggage and they put it
down below the bus again safety is relative to other places you travel to in the world
right when i took the ado bus i felt perfectly fine and this is in comparison to things like
when you take the bus in vietnam for example when your luggage goes down below sometimes another
person goes down below and is going through all of the luggage and stealing things so that when you
get to your destination you're missing a couple things that was not an issue for me here in tulum
and i've never heard any stories about that and i felt like the guys that were helping me to handle
my luggage that worked for adl were perfectly fine and so i had a good experience let's talk
about taxis and again with all of these stories i'm just sharing my experience it doesn't mean
this speaks for everybody so i'm trying to be really honest about my experience with taxis
i always felt like the taxi was going to take me to the place i was asking them to take me
i always download the google map and have a sim card to track to make sure they are actually
taking me to the right place but i always felt safe in taxis this is unlike and i'm giving you
these other examples of horror stories because when people say christine is it safe it's like
well relative to what so examples for me traveling in the philippines or in thailand those tuk-tuks
may or may not take you to the place you asked them to and it's a great way for them to scam you
into taking more transportation or scamming you into going to yet another trinkets and
tourist shop but in tulum i never felt like that was the case i always felt like when i
got into a taxi they were going to take me to where i was asking them to take me
granted they might be trying to rip me off and get me to pay more again watch the other video
and link in the description the actual safety of being in the taxi was fine which by the way if
you have crazy transportation stories tell me in the comments below because i'd love to hear them
let's talk about going out because i do like to go out and i do go out when i'm traveling solo when
i was going out in tulum it felt fine it's a very touristic place and my experience might be jaded
because in november 2020 every digital nomad from every city i've lived in in new york and
san francisco is in tulum right now and they're they're all hanging out and so it literally felt
for me like i was back in the city hanging out with all my old friends again so going out to the
main bars and clubs i felt totally fine but as a solo traveler i wasn't doing the crazy experiences
like the underground cenote party in which you're hiking through the jungle and going to some super
lit party in a cenote which yeah those do exist but i wasn't going to do it solo all right i'm
gonna be honest in this next part of the video and tell you about two things i actually was
afraid of while traveling alone which by the way this video is a part of a series so if you want
more examples and more insights into my struggles traveling solo here check out my other videos and
stay tuned for more of them the first thing i was afraid of was people hawking you in the
restaurants and this drove me kind of crazy in tulum in which when you're dining at nice places
the restaurants and establishments will allow people to come in to try to sell you things
or ask you for money and if you kindly said no no gracias like they will go away but a lot of times
those people were in there with their children who were walking around so watch your purse and watch
your clutch and watch your belongings it's why i wear a fanny pack that's always attached to me
but they were definitely pickpocketing people and that that kind of bothered me
the other thing that honestly scared me was the police there's a lot of corruption i mean
it's it's mexico what do you expect and so one of the things for me is anytime i was riding a bike
sometimes in remote areas and there were police barricades in which they're pulling everybody over
i simply just made a u-turn i heard my fair share of stories while i was out there but that's just
one thing to be aware of i'll leave it at that i will also say i have friends check out my other
videos of me interviewing them who live in tulum an amazing canadian stacy from hot flashes and
boarding passes alba from yoga dicha who is from colorado who are making new lives for themselves
in tulum and just crushing it and loving living out there i'm christine i hope you found value
in this video cheers a like button if you haven't already consider sharing it with someone who might
be traveling their solo i'm here every week with new videos and i'll see you in the next one ciao