Car Wash Cenote, Tulum, Mexico, during my course of cave diving with Bil Phillips of Speleotech. The cenote entering the views of some 750 ‘Washington Car We dive around 150′ later for a total distance of 900 ‘.
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The tourists around the planet are beginning to discover exquisiteness of Tulum. Their beaches of the target-sand with waters of the Caribbean of the Turkish are perfect to take the sun, swimming and to dive. Also Tulum is famous by its Mayan ruins. He is popular for the colorful view of the Caribbean and a location 128 kilometers (80 miles) of the south of the popular playero complex of Cancun.
Accommodations hardly varies of the hotels of Tulum that offer comfortable quarters with all the services or those in a rustic cabin done outside the wood, palm, floor of the sand and only illuminated by the lights from the candle to the wonderful beach houses. But another reason for which Tulum considers a gem is due to its natural wells. Natural wells are swimming pools of of fresh water formed of dolinas of the limestone stone ligatures by a system of extensive underground river. The natural well of the word is derived from the Mayan word D´zonot.
These natural wells are really windows to the extensive underground rivers that flow underneath the Earth through the submerged caves. Natural wells are magician, enigmatic and unique in the world and were once the unique resource for the fresh, sweet water in the local forest of Yucatecan. A natural well forms very gradually in a certain term. These are formed by the dissolution of the rock that creates an empty subsurface, that can or it is not possible to be bound to an active system of the cave, and the subsequent structural collapse of the ceiling of the rock on the emptiness.
The rock that falls in the down then water will be cleared slowly by the additional dissolution, creating the space for more blocks of the collapse. The collapse index increases during the periods in which the water table is underneath the ceiling of the emptiness, since the ceiling of the buoyant rock is supported not more by the water in the emptiness. Natural wells can be collapsed completely creating a abierta water swimming pool, or be collapsed partially with a certain portion of a projection of the rock on the water.
In the area of Tulum the best natural wells South are located of the town of Tulum and throughout the way to the Mayan ruins of Coba, such as blue Mayan (a lagoon in the form of L.), Naharon, temple of the natural wells of the condemnation (Natural well Skeleton), of Turtle, Vacaha, Great Natural well, Bees, Nohoch Kiin and the Carwash and the systems of the cave. One of most beautiful is the Great Natural well, as soon as 4 kilometers in the way to Coba. Its clear water allows that the swimmers and the subaqueous dabchicks see the formation of the cave and the small fish that live there.
Calaveras Cenote jump in and get out in the cave with full gear more difficult.