I remember watching a documentary exactly about the same subject ten years ago…about Bali😢

Thank you for the insightful documentary. I first went to Tulum in 2021, and I share your view about what a special place Tulum is. I purchased a condo in 2022 and just recently have learned about all the things you are speaking of, and its absolutely heart breaking. It is now almost 2025 and things are at least 5 times as worse as what you spoke about in the film. Looks like there is absolutely no infrastructure or planning by the city or developers in the area. It's a shame because there are projects going up all over without the proper guidance or regulations. Properties are started then left half done. I purchased in Aldea Zama thinking it had some planning, but the sewer system is not even connected to anything. I've been more shocked to learn about these things in the past year, and it's been quite upsetting because I planned to retire this beautiful place, but now instead I am thinking of relocating to another place. It would be great if you could do an update to your fantastic Documentary. Thanks again 🏖

This documentary needs to be seen by everyone in 2024. Thank you for talking about these issues.

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Humans ....the most dangerous animals

An excellent example of the problems we have not just in Tulum but in shore communities all over the globe. You should see the problems that we have at the New Jersey shoreline communities. I am not sure how people swim there. There are correct ways of doing things that benefit everyone but it does cost money and you have to WANT to do it. Thank you Rachel for an engaging story and a warning to what can happen when you don't plan.

Countries love tourism, love dollars, but they do not make them part. Clean and preserve the places of turism.

But that also means that a lot of people who originally are from there have to work at building these establishments since life there is getting more expensive because of gentrification. It is a nightmare.

Maravilloso documental.yo he deseado por años irme a vivir a Tulum.fui en abril de 2024 para buscar donde vivir,no encontré nada ecológico o sustentable100%😌quiero irme entre otras cosas por la selva y los desarrollos habitacionales talaron todos los árboles!!entonces cual es la diferencia entre esos desarrollos y uno en la ciudad??estoy muy triste y confundida,ya no sé si debo irme a vivir a Tulum😔

Uneducated hippies that think praying to cacao will fix everything. All it will do is bring more ignorant hippies that claim to believe in science. They will go out of their way to dispose triple A battery properly while totaling ignoring the fact that it’s fart in the wind.

I had a horrible time in Tulum in May, 2024. The taxi drivers operate with the drug cartel. Expensive, aggressive, and dangerous taxi there. Avoid them at all cost.

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Tulum is a $cam city. Not safe for tourists. They try to steal your credit card data. Every business needs to pay the cartel. Everybody is paid by the cartel. All fckd up. Highly overpriced

The hidden gem of Tulum. I found a place in the hotel zone on the beach that is beautiful. Not like the other expensive tourist traps. It’s located km 8.5 in the hotel zone directly on Tulum beach called camping Chavez. They only charge $200 Mx or $15 usd. That includes: beach beds, bathrooms, showers with hot and cold water, WiFi. They also have good food and drinks for really good prices compared to all the other places. No minimum consumption! Don’t leave Tulum without checking it out.

Thank you for this video,I was ready to invest in’s one condo,glad to quit,Tulum is getting worse

Viví 15 años en Cancún, y conocimos Tulum, playa del Carmen, Shangri-la, Bonfil, y muchos lugares, todos eran hermosos, la gente increíble, trabajé en Sheraton y ví cómo se fueron deteriorando esos lugares☹️, culpables??? Los que nunca quisieron escuchar que era un lugar dónde no se podía construir cuidades, muchos gobiernos corruptos y mucha gente haciéndose ciega a la corrupción, dejé ese lugar por lo mismo, y no me extrañaría que todo el Caribe se acabara, no entendemos que somos muchos y el planeta ya no da para más!!!!!

Tulum now belongs to cartels.

i was raised in tulum back in 2009, it was just so different, so natural, there was monkeys in my backyard, a whole army of crabs painted the streets when migrating to the shore, biodiversity at its best, beautiful untouched beaches and jungle, it was so safe you could leave your door open at night if it was too hot, it was just so peaceful, i went back in 2023 and its just a noisy, ugly nasty place full of drug addicts, killings, horrible infrastructure, dust everywhere, real state dissasters, just so fucking sad, i cant believe how the local people allowed that beautiful peaceful town to become whatever the fuck tulum is now

Timelines could be wrong tho. We don't know the true timelines due to being lied to

White people making a documentary for white people, they are the cause of the problem. The native communities, I believe, are up to 10 times less polluting than them...

Thank you for speaking up about these issues, most of us didn't really know about them, I'm Mexican as well, I went there 3 years ago for the first time, I fell in love with the place but now that I informed myself about the environmental issues I feel a lot of regret about going there ever again and contributing to this whole mess, I also feel that we should all do something about it, first of all we should tell all our friends about the situation and speak up... I recently understood that for every climate change problem there's a climate change solution, so the recommendations in the video were great, we need to keep pushing the government, infrastructure companies and people to change.

People that live there live there, because sex trafficking is legal That is the whole trick. No one told me that Noah told me that the real estate agents were secretly prostitute and if people say they’re in real estate there in sex trafficking.

This weekend was my first visit back since 1995. I was shocked by the development. My immediate thought was that the infrastructure and public utilities were not sufficient to handle this explosive growth. I would be happy to pay an environmental $20 fee to enter Talum if I knew it would be properly used. I tried to eat as local as possible focusing on plant based meals but have no idea where the ingredients were sourced. I’m of the opinion that we are destroying our planet at an existential rate. Regardless, I do my part. Thanks for the enlightening video. Well done

Unfortunately the local movements in poor countries represent the rearrangement of deck chairs on the titanic. And yes, this is better than nothing. The real issue is empire. Rich countries and the evolution of their economic systems followed by their politics systems. The rich empires of today are in decline because their economic systems have corrupted their political system. Both will fall and rebirth into something new and better…….our species is on a messy messy journey back to connection with earth but it will take time and tears. The question is not when but actually: will we survive the journey. Money is just a human currency of survival. Should technology and general innovation be allowed to continue and we don’t destroy ourselves, we will come back to the beginning where we started. If the computers will allow it. ;)

Am I the only one was was disappointed by this documentary?

but a huge aerport has just built plus a modern train railway

The locals hate tourists here. They really need to educate themselves and get mad at all of the greedy developers, though. As for the corruption, that's a whole other thing.

Biggest shit hole I’ve been, aside from LA and Barcelona

Da pena q mejor gente extranjera diga lo q STA pasando en Tulum y los malditos gobiernos local o del estado se hacen pendejos. X su ambición desmedida no les importa nada...urge q se entere bien el presidente del daño irreversible q Stan. Ocacionando

Tulum sucks... Frauds at each corner of the street starting by the cabs'dwrivers to the cenote high entrance fees..... It's awful!

Talum is beautiful this video is a lie...crap....lol

The government of Quintana Roo needs to build the infrastructure for a proper city in the riviera Maya. The secret is out, Mexico is getting better by the day, the US getting worse. I imagine that 30 years from now it will be one of the most in demand places in the world to live, which is probably unavoidable. What is avoidable, or manageable I should say, is the damage. If they plan a city properly, one that is built to handle an influx of millions of people (which is the direction things are headed) they can make a great place to live, make a buttload of tax income, and set the trend for the rest of the world on how to build an eco friendly city and do it right. It has all the potential to be one of the best places in the world to live. I live here and i pray every day things will turn out alright 🙏🏻.

Makes me never want to swim in the ocean again. Sad that God gave is that ocean which took billions of years to create and humans have ruined that ocean in less than a hundred years 😭😭😭

Beautiful documentary. Every visitor should be required to watch this. Many of us are working for similar change in our communities. Conservation should begin at home and become natural for us. We must give more than we take and protect our precious Earth. It is time for Humanity to transform from locusts into butterflies, tread lightly, and spread seeds instead of trash. Thank you for this enlightening documentary about the reality of your beautiful home and for bringing awareness and positive change to your community.

I was there with my family during Christmas 1986. Totally different then. Cancun was jumping bigtime. The ruins were so new and underdeveloped off the parking lots. Shout out to The Maple Brothers from Chicago. S. Price and L. Greene from Up State NY, you folkes made the trip for me!!!!

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Right on Rachel, was there winter of 2023, again and nothing has changed if not worse.

This should be a PSA for all of Mexico. 🙏❤️ The greedy expats, that move to Mexico to not pay taxes, or live like millionaires are a big part of the problem too. If someone wants to move to Mexico, great, live like the locals do then. Earn a small wage a day, live in anything but a condo. There’s not many locals living in condo’s or having expensive yachts!! I visited Mexico twice, and saw with my own eyes, people struggling, while yachts sat in the marina, owners not even around! White people expecting white privilege to apply over there!! NOPE!! Canadian and American alike, are visiting there, regardless if they live there, you are still not a local!! Be courteous/respectful/kind, we are all visiting Mexico and things are done differently there. It works for locals, why should we move in and change it. That goes for any country anywhere.

Just back from Tulum. Nothing to see there, stay away. Extremely overpriced and full of dumb ass instagram “fluencers” 🤢 Do yourself a favour and take a trip to Holbox. It’s not destroyed yet by insta brainless clowns 🤡

I went to Tulum back in the 1990’s and it was so rugged and natural. I loved it. I hate to see all the destruction to the mangroves that is going on here! Tulum is ruining itself and no one seems to care. Thank you for doing this video. I hope it makes people wake up and begin to protect what is essential to sustaining this area!

Very sad!!!! I love Tulum

This video gives me tremendous insight into why I got sick when I went to Tulum. Such a shame.

Wow! This information is fantastic! 🌱

What do we have to learn from this...? Slaves turn nature's wonders into toilets..🤔 i was In tulum/Cancun june 2023.. its definitely not developed properly for the mass amounts of slaves that dump their money there to get the illusion they are privileged and free...

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It's such an outrageous lie that the development of Tulum has uplifted the indigenous population, when they slave away all day and night and still have to live in squalor. Not only are the exploiters of the Yucatan not willing to give back to the community in even the most fundamental and miniscule ways, but they are not even willing to contribute to proper infrastructure. Are they even taxed, and where does that money go ? Certainly not into the community !

Local activists and world environmentalists need to have a massive international campaign, media and advertisements targeting tourism, telling the truth about what a dangerous cesspool Tulum has become because of the corruption of the mafia style government in Mexico and greed of the opportunists. Drive home the truth about the false claims of the ecotourism industry. Force a change, or Tulum will be a toxic dead zone unfit for any life form but perhaps cockroaches. And this will happen before 2030. 😡😰

I could only watch ten minutes in. Loved my time there in 1999-2000 with my cave diving lover. So glad we experienced it then. Under the mosquito netting with an iguana under the blanket that was like a puppy dog sleeping next to you xx. So sad tourist/drug traffick businesses has destroyed it.

fantastic work