TULUM

Mom in front of the governmental palace ( this where the chief justices resided)

Back of the Palace

View to the beach we are really wet. In the background you can see two sea turtle nests that that are roped off to protect them from predators.

Jax pointing to an iguana he spotted (you can't really see it but it's in the crack by the orange looking rock above his head

The Wilsons in front of the Templo de Dios (before the rain started) The sculptures and writing are at the top by the three windows if I'm not mistaken.

It rained and Rained and we were soaked to the bone in about 5 minutes

Dave and Jax at a look out point in the ruins

Mom and Jax by some ruins, this was the hospital, the people would come here to be made well by a "healer." ( you can kind of see the Templo de Dios in the back ground- it overlooks the ocean)

The rain and 100% humidity made our camera go all funny so most of the pics from Tulum turned out like this.

We went to visit the ruins at Tulum one afternoon when we thought the weather was cooperating(boy were we wrong!). Half of the time we were in Mexico it was raining terribly. We were there right at the same time as the 'Tropical Storm ALEX' so we got to see some really insane weather. At Tulum we saw a few monkeys and a few hiding Iguanas that Jaxson found with his great hunter eyes ( it was raining pretty hard most of the time we were there so they were all hiding but we're told that when its dry the iguana's are all over the rocks).

Tulum is beautiful old city and has a very calm sweet spirit about the entire city. We didn't hire a guide but we were behind one that was telling his crew about the Nephite people who lived there. We found that fascinating and then a few minutes later we were in front of the "Templo de Dios' (or Temple of God) and the same guide began telling his tour about the writing on the top of the temple- he pointed to the three words and said that it said "holy, holier, holiest' and then below that it said "Holiness to the Lord" I do not know if he was a member of the church or not but we were amazed to hear such things. The people he was telling this too were obviously not members and could have cared less about the significance of what he was telling them-- we on the other hand were spell bound unfortunately the rain started to pour and everyone ran for cover. We lost that tour group so we didn't hear anymore about the ruins but it was still such a fascinating adventure! I would love to go back with a hired guide.