![]() ![]() There are also more stalactites and stalagmites plus the odd creepy crawly or two.Ĭenote Chac Mool is very well kept and the access to the cenote is well maintained and easy for divers. In the air dome, you’ll be able to see lots of tree roots that have penetrated through the rock from the jungle above. ![]() ![]() You can even see some of them have even broken away from the ceiling in sheets of rock and how the cavern has changed over the many years.Ĭenote Chac Mool also has an air dome within it, which you can surface into during your dive. They’re incredible to see, and even more so when you realize that it takes thousands of years for each one to grow only a few centimeters. There are thousands of needle-like stalactites that hang from the ceiling. Inside Chac Mool, you can also see many of the speleothems that the cenotes are famous for. It’s kind of hard to believe this now when these cenotes lie in the middle of the jungle! You can ask your DEEP Mexico guide to point out some of the cool shells and fossils on your dive Cenote Kukulkan has many shells, coral fossils, and imprints in the rocks, which prove that it was once part of the sea, with true ocean life there. The Yucatan peninsula was once (many millions of years ago) a large underwater coral reef and the evidence of this can be found in the cenotes. If you swim underneath the layer into the salt water and look up, it is like seeing a river flowing above you within the water! It makes you question your vision – it feels like how it must be to lose your glasses! It can be visually quite strange to swim through but is a unique experience nonetheless. When mixed together they create a blurry effect. In Cenote Chac Mool, you get to experience what happens when freshwater and salty water meet! It produces a vivid halocline layer. The maximum depth of these cenotes reaches around 12.5 meters, and it is at these deeper areas that you can see the haloclines However, at depth, the water can be salty. In this cenote, as in almost all of the cenotes across the Yucatan peninsula, the water is fresh. It looks like a scene from Jurassic Park or the Avatar movies! The entrance at ‘Little Brother’ Swim Through Fabulous Haloclines It is like a giant wall of vivid green light scattered with trees and boulders. Seeing this light can make you possibly believe that there is something special out there – it is a beautifully ethereal experience.Īnd that’s not the only place where the light is visually spectacular! As you dive through Cenote Chac Mool, from the entrance at ‘Little Brother’, you see the wide opening of Chac Mool. ![]() This gives you an amazing show, made-up of laser beams of light that penetrate the water creating dazzling rainbows and ripples on the rocks inside the cenote. This allows the sunlight to enter through the cenote from above. So, what do I mean by everything? Well, Cenote Kukulkan has an area that is open to the cenote at the side. To dive at this cenote, you need to be Open Water Certified, and have a good understanding of maintaining buoyancy. This is because within this Cenote Chac Mool there are ALL of the wonderful features of cenote diving, giving you a kind of ‘best-of’ situation where you can see everything at once. In fact, this cenote is fabulous for those who can only experience cenote diving for one day of their vacation in Playa del Carmen. Nonetheless, that doesn’t mean that this cenote not spectacular to see. Which makes for a great day of diving!Ĭhac Mool Cenote map Why Go Chac Mool Cenote Diving?Ī day of scuba diving at Cenote Chac Mool is very popular for novice divers because it is a more open and wider cenote, which can be great if you’re getting used to diving in an overhead environment for the first time. You can experience two dives here, one in each cenote. Chac Mool is named after the Mesoamerican sculptures of the region, which depict slain warriors carrying offerings to the gods.Ĭhac Mool Cenote itself has three open areas and is classed as two separate cenotes, Cenote Kukulkan and Cenote Chac Mool which has the entrance ‘Little Brother’. It’s roughly half an hour’s drive away, located off the highway just after the town of Puerto Aventuras. Cenote Chac Mool is one of the closest cenotes to Playa del Carmen. ![]()
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