$15 backpacker town turned $600 wellness trap. Sewage included.
What was a $15-a-night backpacker beach town in the 2000s is now a $600-a-night wellness industrial complex for people who think cenotes are content opportunities. The irony: Tulum's explosive development has caused raw sewage to leak into the aquifer system that feeds those very cenotes. The jungle-chic aesthetic hides an infrastructure crisis, but the drone shots don't show the generators running 24/7.
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