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Spelunking the Subterranean Universe of Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula
Your Mayan guide is carefully leading you by flashlight into a hot, muggy limestone cavern, one of hundreds that wormhole all over the Yucatán. Like centuries of Mayans before you, you've come to cool off in a deep, clear pool of underground spring water, and to snorkel and spelunk your way through an underground landscape unlike any other on the planet. Draped with vines, roots, and stalactites, the Yucatan's porous, limestone karst tunnels, cenotes, and caverns are so numerous that they are the defining characteristic of the peninsula—and served as the water source for hundreds of ancient Mayan communities.
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