TULUM, Mexico — When you’re floating in the balmy, turquoise water, parts of the Quintana Roo coastline still look timeless.
Dense tangles of palm trees and shrubs line the soft, sandy beach. Walled ruins peer down from their limestone cliff. Pelicans fly in formation overhead. It’s easy to understand why hippies, backpackers and armchair archaeologists began flocking to this pocket of the Yucatán Peninsula in the ’70s.
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