http://baldparrot.com/mexico02/swimming-in-cenotes.html Fri, 10 Dec 2010 05:01:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 http://baldparrot.com/mexico02/swimming-in-cenotes.html/comment-page-1#comment-15 Travellers Tales - Swimming in Cenotes | dustytraveller.com Sat, 25 Aug 2007 17:59:14 +0000 http://baldparrot.com/?p=18#comment-15 [...] We were introduced to the gentle art of cenote swimming at Cenote Azul, near Bacalar. We caught a taxi from Bacalar to the cenote. There is a well-ventilated restaurant, the biggest we had seen at that point on our trip, at the side of the cenote where swimmers can refresh themselves after a leisurely back-stroke or crippling crawl. However, it’s the cenote itself that is important in this hot and dusty country. A quick dip into the cool waters is very refreshing and allows you to exchange beads of sweat for beads of water. Cenote Azul is basically a large round pool about 600 feet across and about 200 deep surrounded by a dense wall of trees. There’s a rope from one side to the other, but I was happy with a few minutes splashing about in the cool and very dark water. Read more [...] [...] We were introduced to the gentle art of cenote swimming at Cenote Azul, near Bacalar. We caught a taxi from Bacalar to the cenote. There is a well-ventilated restaurant, the biggest we had seen at that point on our trip, at the side of the cenote where swimmers can refresh themselves after a leisurely back-stroke or crippling crawl. However, it’s the cenote itself that is important in this hot and dusty country. A quick dip into the cool waters is very refreshing and allows you to exchange beads of sweat for beads of water. Cenote Azul is basically a large round pool about 600 feet across and about 200 deep surrounded by a dense wall of trees. There’s a rope from one side to the other, but I was happy with a few minutes splashing about in the cool and very dark water. Read more [...]

]]> http://baldparrot.com/mexico02/swimming-in-cenotes.html/comment-page-1#comment-14 Travellers Tales - Bacalar, Mexico | dustytraveller.com Sat, 25 Aug 2007 14:38:11 +0000 http://baldparrot.com/?p=18#comment-14 [...] Following is an excerpt from an email forwarded to me by a friend that I met at CasitaCarolina when we used the hotel as a base for our visit to the famous Cenote Azul. [...] [...] Following is an excerpt from an email forwarded to me by a friend that I met at CasitaCarolina when we used the hotel as a base for our visit to the famous Cenote Azul. [...]

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