Refreshing swim

We were very curious about cenotes. Since we had a fiasco trying to get the cenote close to Chichen Itza, we couldn't miss the opportunities the Riviera Maya offers. The Yucatan peninsula is a flat land composed mostly of porous calcareous rocks, this rocks play a roll as a sponge, so all the water received during the rainy season is collected under the surface. The cenotes are some kind of caves, some are semi-open caves, some caves with just a little hole to the earth surface, others totally exposed, (a dictionary definition says, they are natural sinkholes in limestone filled with water. Geologists tell us that sinkholes begin as underground caverns dug out of the limestone by naturally acidic ground water). Every cenote has water, fresh, beautiful, perfect clear water.

One of the many taxi cab driver I talked to, recommended us one particular cenote, he said - just yesterday I took a family over there, they were delighted by it-. So we took his word and went to this place, located between Akumal and the Tulum ruins.


This particular bird (to the right), caught our attention.







What we saw, just enchanted us. I don't have more words to describe this beautiful ecosystem, in the middle of the Maya rain forest, Cenote Dos Ojos is just awesome. To get into the cenote people need to get down by built stairs, and then the opening of the cave appears to you as a welcome to its wonders.

Around the trees, the different birds chirping and singing, flying around, some getting into the cave and looking for little holes up in the ceiling. Fishes and the most pure water I ever saw.

Every body had a blast, snorkeling, swimming and enjoying the cenote, plus, in Dos Ojos you have two different cenotes just walking distance from one to the other.