Cenote X'ux Ha

After leaving the AirBnB in Mérida we filled our drinking water jar at a purificada and looked for a specific campsite to drop off one of our passenger. We met a family in Cholula at the Trailer Park Las Americas and they left before us, but they left a plush Marshal from Paw Patrol at the campsite.

We know very well how important certain toys for small kids are so we wanted to reunite them. After some Whatsapp messages they told they will arrive to Mérida after us and gave us the name of the campsite they planned to stay. So we went there but it was closed, so we need to agree another drop-off point. Which will be Tulum, where we know a family who also stayed at Las Americas earlier.

Enroute to Tulum we stopped for lunch at Valladolid which is a very neat and nice little town. The main square and the main street we have seen were very nice, the food was just ok, not spectacular. After a few months in Mexico your expectations of food become quite high!

The highligth of our day (but so far our trip's too) was the next stop at a cenote. It is is a natural pit, or sinkhole, resulting from the collapse of limestone bedrock that exposes groundwater. The term originated on the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico, where cenotes were commonly used for water supplies by the ancient Maya, and occasionally for sacrificial offerings.

There are plenty of these in this part of the Yucatan and we picked an excellent one! It was called X'ux Ha and it was very clean and well built supporting infrastructure. Nice and jungle themed changing rooms, very clean toilets and showers prepared us for a unique experience. We descended about 20 meters on a wooden staircase into a cave and the blue, deep water welcomed us in the humid heat.

Everyone enjoyed this midday swim and we arrived to Tulum quite tired but smiling.