Tulum Ruins

Tulum Ruins are the only major Maya archaeological site built on a Caribbean cliff above a beach, featuring a walled ceremonial center that thrived as a post-Classic port city when the Spanish first arrived, with the Temple of the Descending God as one of the finest small-scale Maya structures surviving in the Yucatan. The view from the cliff behind the main temple—turquoise sea above the wall and jungle below—is the most photographed archaeological vista in Mexico, surpassing the popularity of Chichen Itza's main pyramid on social media, with over 1.2 million geotagged posts on Instagram alone.