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Cenotes Closer to Playa del Carmen
Cenote Jardín de Edén
Ponderosa
Garden of Eden is an excellent first cenote dive as you progress along the open water at all times. Located close to Playa and also called "Ponderosa", Garden of Eden is a mangrove type cenote, with magic light rays passing through the tree branches and roots. This creates beautiful photo opportunities.
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Coral fossils can be found everywhere, and it offers the strongest halocline among the cenotes, making it one of the best cenote dives around Playa del Carmen.
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A famous place for cave diving in Mexico, you're likely to see cave divers in training here.
Location: 25 km south of Playa / 41 km North of Tulum
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Max depth: 12 m
Certification level: Open Water Diver
Min dive experience: 5 dives
Tajma-ha
The white cavern
Enjoy the light show that the "sugar bowl cenote" offers, and pass underneath the bat cave decorated with stalactites and stalagmites!
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Plenty of hidden fossils can be find along the way, cool haloclines will be encounter in the deeper parts of the cenote and the laser beams of light coming through holes in the cavern never disappoint.
A very "complete" cavern dive, and a perfect second cenote dive after Eden when you are staying in Playa del Carmen.
Location: 28 km south of Playa / 39 km North of Tulum
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Max depth: 16 m
Certification level: Open Water Diver
Min dive experience: 25 dives
*Good equalization techniques are required*
Chac-mool 2 dives
Kukulcan - Little Brother
Offering 2 different dives, Kukulcan and Chac-mool, this site has it all and is a famous special of Playa del Carmen diving! Dive along a beautiful light curtain, enjoy the special color of the surface, due to the concentration of tannic acid, and a cavern filled with marine fossils.
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The halocline and the dead trees laying on the bottom create a very special panorama on the second dive, as well as the freshwater turtles sometimes visiting this cenote.
Location: 23 km south of Playa /44 km North of Tulum
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Max depth: 15 m
Certification level: Open Water Diver
Min dive experience: 10 dives
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*Please note that all types of cameras,
including Go Pros are strictly forbidden
in the cenote. *
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However, there is a professional photographer on site offering his services, and pictures will be up for sale after our second dive.
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*Good equalization techniques are required*
Cenotes between Playa del Carmen and Tulum
Cenote Dos Ojos 2 dives
Barbie line - Bat cave
A favorite among cenote divers in Mexico, "Cenote Dos Ojos" is a system of two neighboring cenotes which connect in one large cavern system with huge pillars and stalactites.
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With only 10 m max depth, offering two dives, very different from each other, in a perfect visibility, it makes for a great first cenote dive on the Riviera Maya.
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Max depth: 10 m
Certification level: Open Water Diver
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Cenote The Pit
Deep Dive
Descending in the middle of the Cenote through a shallow halocline toward the hydrogen sulfur cloud at 30 m, you observe the tree branches emerge from the cloud. Using a multilevel profile, we slowly spiral up the huge underground room, exploring the huge overhanging formations, before we reach the ceiling at 10 m. We usually end up admiring the beams of sunlight entering the Cavern. Some Mayan pottery can also be found at The Pit.
An All time cenote divers favorite!
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Max depth: 30 m
Certification level: Advanced
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Cenote Nicte - ha
"Water Flower"
Enter the beautiful cavern of "Cenote Nicte-ha", and enjoy the truly unique sight of the open water as we exit the cavern, where the mix of underwater flora, lighting and the occasional turtle visit makes this a mesmerizing experience.
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As Nicte-ha is a less popular cenote, this can make of a less crowded and more relaxed experience.
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Max depth: 6 m
Certification level: Open Water Diver
Recommended experience: high
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*Excellent frog kick required*
Dreamgate 2 dives
Upstream - Downstream
Dive one of the most decorated cenotes the Riviera Maya has to offer. Going through millions of stalactites and stalagmites, This is dive you'll never forget.
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To dive Dreamgate, you have to be a buoyancy master, have plenty of dive experience and an excellent frog kick.
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Max depth: 6 m
Recommended experience: high
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*Dreamgate cannot be chosen as a first dive when diving with us*
Cenotes around Tulum
Cenote Angelita
Enjoy a once in a life time experience diving the cenote with a cloud in it just south of Tulum!
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Play in the mystical cloud of hydrogen sulfur with big trunks and branches reaching out. Ascent slowly along the decorated walls and admire the aerial views of the cloud and branches that slowly stay behind.
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Scuba diving cenote Angelita, near Tulum, is a journey, an hallucinogenic experience that you will never forget.
Location: 78 km south of Playa / 16 km South of Tulum
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Recommended dive experience: competent deep diver
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This dive should be done early in the morning as to enjoy pristine cloud conditions.
Cenote Car Wash/ Aktun Ha
When the road from inland Yucatan was still dirt taxi drivers would stop at this cenote next to the now highway to throw buckets of water on their cars to get the dust off before arriving in Tulum,.
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Car wash not only offers amazing formations, but also great fish and turtles encounters through the open water part of the dive. Also, as it is a hotspot for cave diving in Mexico, you're likely to see some people training there!
Location: 69 km south of Playa / 9 km West of Tulum
Max depth: 16 m
Certification level: Open Water Diver
Yax-Chen
The name in mayan means green pond. In reality it is a mangrove lake, a water forest. A favorite of ours for training and first time divers Sometimes bathing crocodiles can be seen nestled around the mangroves, others we encounter giant tarpons. Always a bit different. Sometimes there are clouds on the bottom, others a layer of tonic acid on the surface.
Location: on Tulum's beach road
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Max depth: 7 m
Certification level: Open Water Diver
Min dive experience: Perfect for a first dive experience
South
Location: 102 km South of Playa del Carmen / 40 km South of Tulum
Cenote Pixan
A hidden place
Cenote Arco Iris is for the adventurers.
Deep in the jungle, a 300 m walk is necessary. But it'll be totally worth it.
With nothing around it, this cenote will take you away from the crowds.
Offering a deep dive, a halocline and a cloud of sulfur, this cenote seems to have it all. Encounter some blind fish as we go through the giant stalagmites at the bottom of the cenote.
Ascend then slowly along the walls filled with small fossils and with the magic beams of light entering from above.
Location: 40 km South of Tulum
Max depth: 30 m
Certification level: experienced deep diver
Min dive experience: + 30 dives
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*Pixan cannot be chosen as a first dive when diving with us*
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*Choose another cenote to do your 2 dive combo*
