Xibalba #adventure
On this #excursion, we visited 2 cave systems, one of which has a small animal park attached, where injured animals are nursed back to health, or animals that were once kept illegally as pets. Xibalba is Maya and means: "place of terror", the Maya believe in the underworld (caves) are the evil gods and the dead living, before they are reborn.
https://private-tours.riviera-maya-portal.com/full-day-tours/xibalba-adventure
Yalku 2
Yalku Lagune is a former natural harbor of the ancient Maya. The lagoon is a collapsed cave system, actually, a huge cenote fed by several other cenotes. On one side is a 100 meter wide channel going out to the sea. In the lagoon is a mix of salt and fresh water full of tropical fish. You can snorkel through underwater canyons, former tunnels of the cave system and can see many species of fish such as the parrotfish, angelfish, neon fish and occasionally even a barracuda or a turtle.
https://private-tours.riviera-maya-portal.com/full-day-tours/akumal-adventure
Pelican dives into the middle of a group of snorkelers
In the Lagune Yalku the sardines have spawned and the lagoon is full of hundreds of thousands of fish, a buffet for the pelicans !!
One turns the round and catches his breakfast right in the middle of the people snorkeling there, does not bother him in the least !!
Sea turtle at the Big Maya reef in Tulum
A good example that people unfortunately tend to touch everything, Therefore lots of turtles have tumors on their head and after tourists started to feed them with tortillas and fried shrimps, the government has shut down the snorkeling with turtles in several places.
Everybody who visits the Riviera Maya must know that in the jungle and in the ocean everything is only to view, not to touch and certainly not to feed.
Water cascades Agua Azul
Water cascades Agua Azul
Visit from the jungle
While having lunch we suddenly got a visitor from the jungle, the Tucan came sneaking in hopping and jumping on the empty chair next to me, with the seat under the table and pinched me in the leg!!
Boat ride down Usumacinta River
Boat ride down Usumacinta River to Yaxchilan, surrounded by deep jungle.
Howler monkeys in the Maya jungle
Howler monkeys at the Usumacinta River, the border river between Guatemala and Mexico. The most abundant river in Central America and more than 600 miles long. On the 45 minute drive down the river to Yaxchilan, a Mayan ruin city deep in the jungle which can only be reached by boat, we suddenly saw a family Brüllaffen on the bank in a tree. Actually unusual, since the howler monkeys are nocturnal.
Spider monkeys in Chacchoben
On my last tour to Chacchoben we walked right into a family dispute of the spider monkeys. Chacchoben is still so untouched from tourism that the spider monkeys are still living in the middle of the ruin city.
spider monkeys in Chacchoben part 2
Spider monkey family disput at the Maya ruins of Chacchoben. Part 2
Spider monkeys in Chacchoben
Spider monkey family disput at the Maya ruins of Chacchoben.
Zipline over Cenote
I just had to try out the zipline going over the cenote. I mean, I need to know what I am offering my guests right??
