Ruinas Tulum

I went to the Tulum ruins and thought it was very interesting. By the ruins there was a beach and I went swimming in the water. The city was built by the Mayans in the early 1200s. My mom and dad think they were very smart because they built a city next to a beautiful beach. It was one of the only Mayans cities that had a wall and there were a lot of cities.

Tulum is the Mayan word for wall. That’s what it is called now but in its day it was called zama which means dawn. We saw temples that had carvings and some small entrances. When we entered the city the passageway through the wall was very thick. They liked to do a lot of rituals on a temple and in the courtyards.

Tulum was one of the first cities that the Spaniards saw. After the Spanish came the Mayans left.