2/22/2016

Cenote Oxmal

Hire a bike. It isn't far. You do have to pass the dump, and once you turn off the main road, you do have to make it 1 km further on a rough gravelly road, and you might be confused by the enormous stadium right before you hit the cenote, but once you get here, you won't regret it.

Do come on a weekday. I had the cenote to myself for my hour-long swim meditation.

Oxman cenote really is the best of all worlds. It is totally accessible, down a series of flights of concrete stairs. It has a wide open mouth that lets in tons of sun. There are no mosquitos. It is a glorious swim, in crystal clear waters filled with black catfish that I'm sure will nibble your feet if you let them. The sunlight refracts on the jagged limestone under the water so that it seems to be a new, strange sun shining up from some subterranean world. It is magical and strange and beautiful and slightly creepy.

I'm not sure the Maya were wrong to consider them holy places. They certainly seem enchanted to me.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Wow! Cenotes are really why you went to the Yucatan, right? They're beautiful.
Enjoy every minute you're there!

xoxoxo

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