The cenotes have a story to tell, which is interesting on its own. The village of Chunkanan was the first to conduct tours of the three cenotes in the area, but the town of Cuzama wanted a piece of the action so they started to divert the traffic to their own route to the cenotes.
Even today, a man with a red flag tried to wave us down and tell us we had to park in Cuzama's parking lot. Because we had read about the dispute we were prepared to keep going on to the original tour at Chunkanan.
We were taken to the first of three cenotes by a horse drawn wagon of sorts. The wagon runs on a narrow gauge railroad that was used for the hauling of henequen years ago.
The first two cenotes were more like caverns so we had to climb down walkways and steep ladders. At cenote #2, I was unable to convince myself that any water hole was worth the climb down three rickety ladders. Fred did it and found the cave and cenote to be "interesting". Whatever that means!
The last cenote was much larger and easier to get to. It was also the prettiest with fish swimming in the crystal clear water.
Occasionally our driver/guide had to remove our cart from the tracks to make room for another horse and cart.
2 comments:
OMG...those cenotes are amazing. Don & I have also been to ones near Akumal but I think these look even better. But not sure if I would be able to make it down some of those ladders either Colleen. Fred will remember...I'm fine doing the ladder up to grain bins, but need coaching to get down!
Yes. Even harder to get you inside a grain bin with a shovel ;-)
The towns and villages are starting to see the value of these cenotes for the tourist dollar and are starting to 'fight' over territory.
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