Park
Playa Ruinas
Sandy beach beneath a clifftop ruin, reached through a paid national park entrance.
Location
About this audio guide
This guide to Playa Ruinas, the public beach beneath Tulum's clifftop archaeological site on Mexico's Riviera Maya, follows the money behind who gets to reach the sand. It traces a twenty twenty-three overhaul that turned the free path down to the water into a paid park, the national uproar that followed, and the wider pattern of Quintana Roo hotels and beach clubs quietly fencing off a coastline the constitution calls public property. Listen for the wristband you are handed at the gate, and what it actually represents.
This audio guide was created using AI.