Sunday, January 17, 2016

Yucatan

On the main Plaza in Valladolid.


While in Valladolid I went with a couple others to Cenotes Xkeken and Samula. We paid at the gate where a young boy took it upon himself to guide us to the cenotes, or underground springs. He didn't ask us to hire him but just led us along, telling us when to turn, which way to go. Other than that, he barely spoke to us and even seemed surprised when I gave him pesos where we stopped to rent snorkels.


Just before the entrance to the spring, I gave him a magnet and he immediately set about trying to find something it would stick to. The man at the ticket booth, his father, I think, asked what I gave him and seemed displeased when the boy showed it to him. He didn't tell about the money and neither did I.



These roots reach a long way for the water in the cenote below.

Cenote Xkeken, or Dzitnup

Cenote Samula

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