{"id":2654,"date":"2013-05-15T01:23:58","date_gmt":"2013-05-15T01:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.capetocairo2010.co.za\/?p=2654"},"modified":"2013-05-16T01:24:54","modified_gmt":"2013-05-16T01:24:54","slug":"15-may-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.capetocairo2010.co.za\/?p=2654","title":{"rendered":"15 May 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

We got up early today to go see the ruins of Tulum<\/a> before the crowds so we left the hotel just after 7 and walked there to enter just in time. These ruins are less architecturally impressive than Chichen Itza<\/a> although the location is UNBELIEVEABLE! These ruins are perched on the edge of a cliff overlooking the turquoise coloured waters of the Caribbean and have a rich history as a trading port that attracted traders from Cuba, Venezuela, Panama and supposedly even Vikings from the Nordic regions?!<\/p>\n

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These ruins are also unique in that there is a small beach that you can swim at that looks up at the ruins perched over the sea. The rest of the day was a lazy one because from tomorrow we start having to cover some distance as we need to be in LA within 3 weeks.<\/p>\n

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These guys are all over the place and can grow to over half a metre!!<\/em><\/p>\n

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One of the original murals that has been remarkably preserved!!<\/em><\/p>\n

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We got up early today to go see the ruins of Tulum before the crowds so we left the hotel just after 7 and walked there to enter just in time. These ruins are less architecturally impressive than Chichen Itza although the location is UNBELIEVEABLE! These ruins are perched on the edge of a cliff […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-theamericas"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t