Tulum

Bring some shoes, the rock is pocketed with a lot of little sharpies. I did several things bare foot and switched to my tennies. The climbing was fun and unexpected, lots of 7's thru 10's. You can highball above the beach or jump from fairly good heithts to the soft cancun style sand, and water at high tide. Not a destination but if you in playa or tulume needing a fix, this is it.

There is a nice 15' arete that overhangs around 20 degrees that is about 60 feet past the stairs in a alcove, goes at about V-4 and is fun. If you are doing a Yucatan trip, bring your shoes and chalk bag and spend a day at Tulum. The beach has larger waves than most of the resort beaches too. But beware the humidity (80%) and the temps (90-95).

I brought my shoes...sad to say the day would have been better spent slugging beers on the beach.

But don't let my spoiled attitude ruin your expectations of Tulum...have fun - it's a beautiful area - but don't expect too much from the climbing.

James, sorry it dident work for you. Tulume isnt a "destination" climbina area. For me, just a cool place to get my acrophobia fix so I could get thru a week of drunken beach combing. allen

Thanks for all the beta, we made of point of stopping by the area during our visit last week. Unfortunately, once we started scaling the rock (great rock!) a lifeguard blew his little whistle and told us to get down. He explained that it's a federal park, so if we get hurt, he gets in trouble. Fair enough. Thought you all would like to know.

We were just in Tulum this past week. We had the same issue as Sylvie did - no climbing on the rocks. There is a sign posted now as well.

!!!!CLIMBING AREA CLOSED!!!!!CLIMBING AREA CLOSED!!!!AREA CLOSED!!!!!

This was a nice secret place that I had been climbing for years while I spend the winters in the mayan riveria.
Now thanks to overly egger MP contributers another great climbing area has been CLOSED it is now a federal offense to climb here!!!!

PLEASE DELETE THIS AREA IT IS NOT A CLIMBING AREA!!!!!!

Sorry to ruin it for you there fella.