Tour to the Natural Wells and Underground rivers (snorkeling)

The tour departs at 08:00. Fifty five minutes drive heading southeast to arrive. This is a special kind of tour because of the many interesting issues it covers. Just twenty minutes after departure we will arrive to the town of Acanceh which has in its main square an ancient Maya pyramid from the pre classic period (250 B. C.), called the palace of the stuccos and a colonial style church of XVI century; this is a very graphic example of the hybrid culture of the modern Yucatán, a mixture of Europe and the ancient Maya. The tour continues until Chuncanán Hacienda. At Chuncanán, we will ride in the former “railroad system” of the hacienda, with wagons pulled by horses until we arrive, after a thirty minutes ride between the forests, to the underground rivers. The caves are magnificent places full of stalactites and stalagmites and the underground river which is as clear as a swimming pool and as colorful as the Caribbean. It is an excellent place to do snorkel and to do cavern diving. If time permits it we could visit two more caves. The Yucatán Peninsula has the biggest underground rivers system in the world due to the limestone shell that allows the rain water to filter. Cave and cavern trips are away of the beaten road of mass tourism. Expected length of the tour: seven hours.