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Amorielli Vol. 2 · No. 04 · April 2026 Portfolio p. 27

Portfolio · Vol. 2 · No. 04 · April 2026

Tulum in pictures

9 photographs from the cover story, Where to Stay in Tulum, printed large. Photographs by ironypoisoning, md, Eduardo Manchon, Alfonzo Buscemi, Bernard DUPONT, Mrd93, eugene_o, Erik Cleves Kristensen, Gordon Leggett, from Wikimedia Commons under the licences credited on each image.

The Maya temple El Castillo standing on a limestone cliff above the turquoise Caribbean at the Tulum ruins — El Castillo on its cliff at the Tulum ruins, the image that draws most people to the town.

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Thatched-roof beachfront cabanas among palm trees on the sand along the Tulum beach road — The beach-road look: thatched cabanas in the palms, mostly running on generators and solar rather than the grid.

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Swimmers in the clear turquoise water of a semi-open cenote near Tulum, with rock walls and hanging vines — A cenote near Tulum, cool clear groundwater in collapsed limestone. Most ban regular sunscreen.

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Bicycles parked along the narrow jungle-lined beach road in Tulum's hotel zone — The ten-kilometer beach road is easiest by bike in daylight; taxis across it are pricey.

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A hand holds a partially eaten taco filled with grasshoppers, melted cheese, and white sauce, with a blurred bowl of guacamole in the background. — This photograph shows grasshopper tacos at La Malinche, Zona Hotelera, Road 109, Tulum, Quintana Roo, MEXICO.

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A cave opening reveals clear blue-green water, with rock formations, hanging roots, and a wooden log in the foreground. — Gran Cenote, Tulum, presents an underground water body within a cave, featuring rock formations and hanging plant roots.

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A wooden walkway extends into a cave with clear blue water, where several people are swimming. Sunlight illuminates the cave entrance and rock formations on the ceiling. — Visitors swim in the clear blue water of Cenote Dos Ojos, a natural swimming hole within a cave system.

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A stone Maya ruin, featuring a stepped pyramid structure topped with a building, is visible amidst green foliage under a partly cloudy sky. — This photograph shows El Castillo, part of the Maya ruins at Tulum, a stone structure set among green vegetation under a cloudy sky.

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A brown pelican with white and brown plumage preens its feathers while perched on a red-marked white object against a clear blue sky. — This image shows a brown pelican preening its feathers in Sian Ka'an Biosphere Reserve in the Yucatan, Mexico, on February 15, 2019.

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