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| Cenote Cristal |
Two quiet cenotes for snorkeling
This morning, two customers wanted to go somewhere quiet for some snorkeling. We went to two cenotes near here, called Cristal and Escondido, which I think Charles and Neil visited when we were last here. They're both tucked away in the jungle and for most of the time we were the only people there.
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| Escondido – like Hampstead Ponds, only tropical |
These are not really suitable for diving so there is none of the clanking of tanks and hissing of air that often accompanies scuba people wherever they go. Instead we spent a couple of hours paddling around and being meditative. This is proper undeveloped jungle and on the way out of Escondido we caught a glimpse of a coati, a racoon-like animal that is common here and looks as if it has been designed by a committee for cuteness. Around the popular cenotes they are bold and come over and beg for bits of your sandwich. Ours today was shyer but here's a picture of one that was hanging around yesterday at Tajma Ha.
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Charles and Neil did indeed visit them. One of them was a much longer walk from the road than we expected when we embarked on it. The only other visitors were a French couple on bicycles. They told us they'd seen a little alligator in the water (Pablo laughed when I told him. Who's afraid of a little alligator?). When we returned to the road - after NOT having a swim - we found the entry gate now closed and padlocked. We clambered over. How the French, with their bicycles, got out, we never found out.
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