Month: July 2026

Breathwork in Tulum: What It Is and Where to Experience It Breathwork has been part of spiritual and healing traditions for thousands of years — pranayama in yoga, holotropic practices in psychotherapy, breath-based rituals across Indigenous cultures around the world. What’s shifted in the last decade is its reach: breathwork has moved from niche therapeutic […]

Art With Me Tulum: Art, Music, Wellness, and Why It Matters There are music festivals. There are wellness retreats. And then, in its own category entirely, there is Art With Me. Every year in late November, Tulum becomes the setting for one of the most genuinely unusual festival experiences in Mexico — a multi-day gathering […]

Full Moon in Tulum: What the Papaya Playa Party Is Really Like Every month, something shifts in Tulum. The beach fills with a different kind of energy — not chaotic, not loud, but electric and deliberate. The full moon rises over the Caribbean, the fires get lit, and Papaya Playa Project becomes the center of […]

Tulum in October: Why It’s the Best-Kept Secret of the Year There’s a version of Tulum most travelers never see — the one that exists after the summer rains wind down, before the peak-season crowds arrive, when the jungle breathes easy and the town belongs to the people who know where to look. That version […]

Best Time to Visit Tulum: An Honest Month-by-Month Guide Most “best time to visit” guides give you the same answer: go in winter, avoid summer, done. But Tulum is more nuanced than that — and the right answer depends entirely on what you’re optimizing for. Perfect beach weather? The full luxury experience? Authentic local culture? […]

Temazcal in Tulum: The Mayan Sweat Lodge and What to Expect If you’ve spent any time researching wellness in Tulum, you’ve seen the word temazcal. It appears on spa menus, retreat itineraries, and every “top things to do in Tulum” list. But for many travelers — especially first-timers — it remains a mystery. What actually […]

Hanal Pixán: The Mayan Day of the Dead in Tulum When most travelers think about Day of the Dead in Mexico, they think of Oaxaca — flower-covered altars, candlelit cemeteries, marigold processions through colonial streets. It’s spectacular, and deservedly famous. But there’s another version of this celebration that runs deeper in its original cultural context: […]

September 16 in Tulum: How to Spend Mexico’s Independence Day Weekend September 16 is Mexico’s most important national holiday — Independence Day. The celebration begins the night before, with El Grito de Independencia ringing out from every town plaza across the country. In Tulum, that means the town center comes alive with music, fireworks, and […]

Tulum with Kids: Cenotes, Ruins, and Where to Actually Stay Most Tulum travel content pictures a couple at a rooftop cenote at sunset. But in summer — especially July and August — families with kids are one of the most active travel segments heading to the Yucatán Peninsula. The good news: Tulum is genuinely great […]

Tulum This Summer: The Guide for Mexican Families on Vacation School’s out. The SEP calendar runs July 16 through August 30 — six weeks of summer that Mexican families spend looking for somewhere worth going. In 2026, Tulum is pulling more domestic visitors than ever, and with good reason. It has everything a family trip […]