Beach
Playa Paraíso Beach Club
Palm-thatched beach club with loungers, restaurant and a wide stretch of Caribbean sand.
Location
About this audio guide
This guide to the Playa Paraíso Beach Club in Tulum looks at the palapa roof overhead as a feat of engineering, not just decoration. It traces how huano palm thatch is tied by hand, leaf by leaf, by craftsmen called palaperos using a technique passed down for generations. From there it follows that same roof design into a direct hurricane strike on this coast, and what separates a building meant to bend from one meant to break.
This audio guide was created using AI.