All Day swim in Homun

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After yesterday's shopping disappointment we decided to go swimming in many cenotes. Rafa and another hostel guest suggested we head to Homun that had several that you could visit and just hire a motorbike taxi for the day.

We caught the colectivo on Calle 67 between Calle 50 and 52 (odd numbered streets run east/west, even streets run North/south). While we were looking for the one to Homun another colectivo driver asked us if we wanted to go to a cenote. When we told him we were already wanting to go to Homùn and asked where that colectivo was, he was going to send us to a completely different direction. We stayed the course and found the one we were looking for maybe 2 vans ahead, a telltale sign on the wall beside where it stopped.

It was MXN25 for the nearly 1 hour ride. Out to the town. Once there the colectivo driver knew exactly where to drop us for the guys who give the tours. We'd heard you could take the tour for MXN100 to see 5 cenotes, but the guy we talked to wouldn't go below MXN200 and would only only take us to 4 of them for that. Might have been our lack of Spanish and bargaining skills. Probably would have been more cost effective to gather a group (4 could probably fit per taxi comfortably). We went and visited Bal-Mil first. Is was rather eerie having a small hole and being deep. Not somewhere that we wanted to spend much time swimming. There were some hand marks on one part of the wall and our guide was able to get across that it had possible been a site for sacrificing. The next, Yaxbaculteen (?), was very sunny with a rope swing. Spent a good amount of time there using snorkels,even though there wasn't much to see. At the cenote Santa Rosa it was well below ground level with only a smallish hole. It was well lite with electric lights and had platforms that Dan leap from, gracelessly. The last one was the major one in town, Tza-Ujun-Kat. It was large enough that there was a small garden in it and big columns into the water. There was a hole in this one that you could see that lead to a deeper cavern that apparently stretched for hundreds of meters around. Then we got Pépe (our guide) to take us to a cheap place to eat, where he left us after pointing out the colectivo stop.

Each cenote was MXN20 to get in, except Tza-Ujun-Kat which was MXN10. Transportation and entrance fees per person wound up being about MXN220, and lunch was only about MXN50 each. Pretty decent for a relaxing 7 hour day with a chauffeur.

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Comments

[Dan's Mommy]

Have you ever.......
been so clean? That's a lot of water you went through. Did the tuk tuk travel on sand, a path, pavement?

[We are the Foreigners]

It was mostly very bumpy gravel roads mixed with some smooth road.