Cuzama Cenotes

Today, we took off to a small village about 40 minutes outside of Merida to go swimming in a group of cenotes that Edwin recommended to us. The village Cuzama, is barely a blip on the map, but it sits among over 200 cenotes, which are small pools found all across the Yucatan. Some are very cave-like while some are completely open. All water on the Yucatan peninsula flows underground (really, take a look at a map sometime--no rivers), some of it ending up in these pools that the Mayan treated as holy sites.
After arriving in Cuzama, we hired a bicycle to take us to the head of a small horse drawn railroad that was originally built to service a plantation producing fiber for clothing, carrying the workers deep into the fields. Our horse, Marquez, at a young nine years old, gave us his all, taking us over an hour into the brush to three different pools. Take a look.

Make it happen, Marquez!