Diving Adventures in Mexico, on the Mayan Riviera

Adventure traveling!!! Loads of adventures on your holiday make it a lifetime experience. You could hike on a mountain to meet its peak, or crawl under the ceiling of a cave to explore its history. You can ski and snowboard. You can snorkel and dive. But adventure diving can be a real treat for you. Diving sport takes you to the fourth dimension. It’s really difficult to imagine the magical world under the water suddenly opening up to close you, unless you experience it personally. Diving offers you sights of colorful coral fields, caverns under the water and ruins of the drowned water vessels. But diving could be an entirely different experience if it’s diving at the Mayan Riviera in Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico.

Mexico, the paradise of water bodies – where diving becomes an extreme pleasure anlong with adventure. The undersides of Mexico show limestone in large amounts. This limestone is found to have been hollowed out into a huge system of tunnels and caves and caverns, and these are called Cenotes. The ocean is responsible for the formation of such structures. Not different from other underwater systems, the underground caves in the Yucatan Peninsula are also chambers, with a reverence of stalactites and stalagmites, and waters of the color pale green. The thing that makes this place different is the largeness of the system along with its many open air entrances and exits. Also, the tunnels are wide enough, easing the snorkellers and divers to explore down there. The water is consistently temperate with visibility good enough to serve a surprisingly un-repetitive view. There are routes taking you out, all the way, to the sea.

If you’ve experienced something like this before, then it’s not a big bite for you. But your experience really doesn’t matter much – a local is supposed to accompany you or you need to hold a cavern diving certificate. It is this way because many are not quite sure if they want to go alone, on their own, down there. There is a distance of as much as 700kms to which the tunnels extend, but not all are worth exploring. The locals help you by guiding you to the best ones. But the thing worth remembering for a lifetime is the water that changes colors. Some deeper cenotes are of the color rich green, like that of the grass, while the ones which are comparatively shallower possess a lustrous shade of pale blue, which may remind of the caverns underneath the deserts.

Flying over this particular part of the vast Mayan Riviera will show a view of the cenotes that are large in number to seem like pock marks on the beautiful face of the Riviera. The Mayans considered them to be quite important, since they had begun being seen in the fresh water. Hence, the Mayans built their communities around them. They are a part of the jungle ruins and local divers are quite spiritual regarding them, which adds to their reverence. The tunnels are so many in numbers, covering a huge area that they can make some of the diving visitors feel claustrophobic. In such cases, the Mesoamerican reef, which is offshore from there, can always be a choice to recover from the anxiety.