Dos Ojos

This is THE cave. I don't think this is the largest system in the Riviera Maya, but at over 50 kms of laid line, it is huge. The size of the main tunnel, the one where the IMAX picture Journey to Amazing Caves was shot, is large enough to accomodate a double decker bus, and a few other vehicles as well. Tunnels shoot off in all directions. The formations are of olympic size.

Unfortunately my small camera cannot capture that grandiosity. I would need the lighting of a football stadium to make justice to it. This is what I've got:

The entrance (with Bernie, my buddy & guide, patiently waiting for me, while I blind her with my flash ;) :



The entrance underwater:



Some stalagtites that have joined stalagmites forming decorated columns, typical in this system:



Myself in an air bell, during our first dive in the system:



Another airbell, at the extreme point of our second dive. There were bats, so the air was breatheable, albeit "smelly":



Another example of cave decoration:



In the cavern zone, where you can still find open water divers, a barbie is in the jaws of a crocodile (why oh why do they have to do it?):