03 April
Jungle Crossing - Nohoch snorkel
We had booked a Jeep Safari, with Cenotenschnorcheln, visit a Mayan village, snorkel in the sea.
That sounds harmless but it was only once, after Jeep Safari "visit" and "something in the water rumplatschen" and we were prepared.
The first surprise was that we were in our hotel is not like all the tourists who were planning a tour, were picked up by air conditioned bus, but that an old four-wheel-Unimog (certainly 20 years old, with 12 Wooden seats in the back) waiting for us.
We climbed into the bed and went off the ride towards Tulum.
First, we had to sign but that we are healthy and that we are not accidents at the tour guide will sue, because everything happens at your own risk. We drove almost an hour on the open cargo area almost on the highway watch, slightly skeptical about the driver's compartment, where some may work no speed, the steering wheel rather "placed provisionally" looked like.
But the trip was very safe, not too fast and relatively comfortable.
turned off after a while the light trucks in the jungle. We drove along a path. Next to us saw only dense jungle, a lot of undergrowth.
After several miles we drove along a side and it began a drive across an "old Mayaweg. We were shaken in all directions simultaneously. There were deep holes, rocks that had to be overcome ... It went ahead at a snail's pace, the way is really safe to create only four-wheel drive .. We were happy then as the "Mayan village came into sight, by a family around the cenote Nohoch has been built. We got the briefing that the water is used as drinking water and we are therefore neither sun nor should rub with insecticides.
The cenote has a connection to the second-longest cave system in the world under water. Here is an entry for cave divers who can orient themselves in the cenote with tethers. We thought we were here to swim a few meters into the dark and look at the cave floor and the little guppies and Mollys.
Here is a film about a trip with the same operator (Alltournative).
Something we have also experienced:
But the tour leader showed us his flashlight and told us we should follow him. We swam behind him over 100 m into the flooded caves. About us everywhere were Stalagtiden, some of which reached almost to the water surface down. You could almost get Platzangs t. Sabine was once briefly between stalactites hang with her snorkel and got scared. But the tour guide could calm her down immediately. If you could see into the water, you could see under the rocks, stalactites, other "courses" in caves. The water was some 10 m deep. You could almost get vertigo . Whenever we were in a large cave, was halted and the tour guide showed us very beautiful stalactites, bats that hung on the walls and ceilings, and told of bones found by U.S. Urelefanten etc.
When he asked for the return swim, I was quite happy.
nice it was when we met again in the distance the sunlight.
(Later, I told the tour guide, he would of course watching us 11 tourists very carefully and assessed that we all can snorkel well. Especially often it does not float with holidaymakers as deep into the caves.
drove After a short break we to a second cenote, the "heaven." Here there is only a narrow opening into which one may enter it by means of conductor. After 5 or 6 meters, one on a wooden bridge, the above water surface is installed. Here we see a 30 m long and wide expanse of water, where we snorkeled now. By the cave ceiling had grown roots of forest trees, which stopped just above the water surface. Our boss told us that we could reach from here with diving within 15 minutes Nohoch.
went after the re-emergence into our Maya village, where there was an "Indian" lunch.
After a break of an hour when we were asked to buy the Indios souvenirs (which we did but not more), the trip went with the Unimog on the beach.
waited there plastic paddle boats us, where we boarded. Nevertheless, we had not paddled for a long time or never, and I came Sabine quite good progress, even if Sabine time to time from the clock came (She is still of the opinion that I have come from the clock)
First we paddled along the shore. The guide wanted us to look for crocodiles. But we found no ...
Then we drove some 100 meters on the sea, where our boats were anchored and then we go snorkeled in the sea. Well, we have not thought of crocodiles .. We had not seen any.
About partly it was the sea water, a thin layer of fresh water, because near the cenotes that flow into it. This leads snorkeling sometimes even so the mixing of the water the view is sometimes blurred much (an effect which I know from my sea water pool, when I top off distilled water)
but was otherwise the view very well . The lake was removed was usually only 2 or 3 feet, so you see between the stones many corals, small fish, colorful schools of fish (eg 50 small bright blue fish, a hundred yellow doctor fish ..). I also discovered a young sea turtle and called the others, who were pleased a "turtle" to see.
Sabine snorkeled often far away from me. Anyway, I lost sight of them often.
We were sure about 1 ½ hours in the sea. Our boats were long out of sight. But that was the snorkelling, which I have dreamed a lot to see, float in the water, watching animals, see all news ...
After returning to the beach (somehow we have recovered the boats), there were delicious fruit and chairs and hammocks on the beach to rest.
Soon after we returned home, where we got beat 19 clock dinner.
addition to the 4-day tour that was probably our most beautiful, exciting day. After late in the evening I was in high spirits because we have seen such a great adventure.
also been stung by insects we rarely.
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