TULUM
when I came first time to Tulum, 1986 I found the seaside I’ve had been looking for without being aware about. Turquoise sea, sky-blue sky, white sands, crystal clear water, green Palm trees. Quiet and peaceful and hidden
MY PARADISE ON EARTH
1986
I felt entirely in love with this place and my loving feeling never changed. Changed has Tulums beach. Not the natural way like coasts always do. Tulum beach were changed.
no running water, no electricity, no phone, no shops, just two modest beach restaurants, only a few people, all appreciating this unique place, some had already met before at other backpacker hotspots. A place to change travel experience, for social life far and – at that time – disconnected from home, but as well to be fine alone. Hammoks to spend time in, time to dream, to write, to read for example the Mayan Bible
Die Göttin Ixchel auf einem Fresco in den Maya-Ruinen von Tulum
The goddess Ixchel on a fresco in the Mayan ruins of Tulum
La diosa Ixchel en un fresco en las ruinas Mayas de Tulum
IXCHEl
asociated with the moon, rain, fertility, medicin, and female craftswork. Creator and destroyer at the same time.
only the Maya-Ruins left untouched when Tulum-Beach was brought during the past three decades onto the market and sold out by tourism industry under the brand Riviera Maya. Unique places were made to be similar to other touristic hotspots all over the world were tourists go to get what they are used to.
~ 1996
declared as
Natural Reserve Area 1981
the project was startet
~ 2006
the facilitis nearby the Maya-Ruins wich could only accommodate a limited number of guests in just a few very basic wooden huts were cloused while hotel complexes with massiv multi-storey houses, suitable for accommodating thousends of guests were built
~ 2014
the project Área Natural Protejda was finally implemented in a small coastal strip while the main part of the coast was reserved for welthy foreign tourists
~ 2019
it wasn’t any longer possible to enjoy untouched nature
the rare times I was beachwalking there my attention was about the sea. This sea and beaches exists much longer than human beings and…
…what ever humans have done and still do to this coast, will be washed away by time, natures pacience … and power
