Cuzama Cenotes

Today we follow the advice of a few other guides that Adam had talked to, a journey out to the springs. Off to the bus station, after a few wrong turns we arrive just before 10am, the next bus to Cuzama was at 10:45am.

A ride that took more than an hour, we get off and straight onto some motorbikes with 2 seats at the front for transporting people around. The guys drop us off at the company that takes you to the springs, they use horses to pull carts with 4 people along a little railway track.

After a 2 ½ hour wait and a very badly run business, it starts bucketing down. The company gives you a cart driver, that's why it took so long, a busy day and all the drivers were out on the track. At last we get onto the track, not long after we have to pull the cart back off again to let others pass, the tracks were only single lane. The horse was probably the slowest one they had, he kept wanting to stop and down the hills he was lucky that the cart didn't run him over.

Cenotes are naturally formed underground caverns that house pools of crystal clear water. The 3 cenotes were deep in the earth, you had to go down stairs or steps down to the water hole. The first had a cool 2 metre platform to dive in, great fun. Onto the second one, we stay long here, it was way to crowded and it didn't look as impressive as the first. The third one involved us climbing down a slippery ladder to a small platform, about 3 metres from the water, that was also great fun and did a somersault off this. We stayed long enough before it got way to crowded and we couldn't miss the bus back. The horse ride back took around an hour, around 11km, the horse decided to speed up on the way home.

Motorbike back into town, then a small bus was offering an easier way back to Merinda at the same price. We didn't get back to the hotel until around 8pm, a long shower then some Hungry Jack's. I went back to the room around 10pm to get on the internet for a bit, after a long day.