<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/c56d672f-e959-4d80-8bde-7efa6ff9578a/450DD9A1-85A4-4355-B63C-D1CB6E75BCED/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.smh.com.au/travel/life-in-ruins-20090408-a07t.html?page=1" href="http://www.smh.com.au/travel/life-in-ruins-20090408-a07t.html?page=1" style="font-size: 11px;">www.smh.com.au</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.smh.com.au/travel/life-in-ruins-20090408-a07t.html?page=1"> <P><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Melanie Ball laps up sun and sea in the ancient clifftop city of Tulum.</SPAN></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.smh.com.au/travel/life-in-ruins-20090408-a07t.html?page=1"> <P>Location, location! That's the catchcry for real estate sales around the world and it's a cliche that best describes Tulum, on the Yucatan Peninsula. Elevation and uninterrupted views of the Caribbean Sea make the city's hugely popular Maya ruins as prime as real estate gets.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.smh.com.au/travel/life-in-ruins-20090408-a07t.html?page=1"> <P>Prospective resale value played no part in Tulum's development; more important was its strategic position at the convergence of maritime and land trade routes. And it was not a lifestyle choice to face it east, where the Maya sun god appears each morning. It is believed residents called the city Zama (city of dawn) before the Spanish named it Tulum, the Maya word for walls.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.smh.com.au/travel/life-in-ruins-20090408-a07t.html?page=1">This setting is the major attraction for tourists and they invade by bus, taxi and private minivan from the purpose-built coastal resort town of Cancun, about 130 kilometres north-east, and from the nearer neighbour, Playa del Carmen.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/450DD9A1-85A4-4355-B63C-D1CB6E75BCED/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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