Dive Cenote Dos Ojos: Amazing and Unforgettable
Maya Diving has been providing guided Cenote Diving trips to Dos Ojos since the year 2000. Come to Tulum and experience one of the most famous dives in the world for yourself.
Located about 15 minutes drive north of Tulum and a 10 minute drive into the jungle we arrive at Cenote Dos Ojos. When you look around from where we park, you quickly see why it's called Dos Ojos, this means Two eyes in english. There are two large collapsed caverns about 50 meters apart. Your guide gives you a thorough briefing and plans the first dive with feedback from the divers.
We carry all the gear down the stairs to the East Eye. It's nice and cool down here and you can see a crystalline blue pool of water. A giant stride and you are in the freshest water imaginable. The water is a cool but comfortable 25 C or 76 F.The Barbie Line
After an air and buoyancy check we descend and start the first dive. What impresses you the most at first is the amazing clarity and sparkling blue hue of the water. You've never experienced anything like it. At first it looks like you are heading into the mouth of a gloomy cave but once you descend a bit more and move ahead you start to see a halo of light ahead while you pass between many beautiful formations like stalactites and stalagmites and flowstones that look like frozen waterfalls. As the West Eye gets closer you see beams of light shimmering, refracting and reflecting creating some amazing light effects. It doesn't somehow feel quite real, there is no current or waves. It seems almost too still. You make a loop at the far end and start back again. Ah, that's why they call it the Barbie line, you'll have to see for yourself, I don't want to spoil it for you.
The Bat Cave
We swap over to new tanks and start out from the East Eye again and head into a different realm. Following the line you enter a dark tunnel and for a minute you have to look around to see any daylight. You really get the feeling that you are entering a cave this time. You come into an area with the most delicate and pretty formations yet. Your guide gives the signal and you all surface slowly amidst stalactites, only a foot or two above your heads coming down from the jagged ceiling of a large dome shaped cavern . It's easy to tell how this cave got it's name; You can see and hear bats in all the little crevices above you. A natural light beam comes down from a hole in the roof of the cavern, it looks pretty impressive. You descend again and skirt the edges of the cave. All along the edges there are lovely, intricate formations. You leave the cave behind and follow another short passage which leads back to the original line you followed in before you know it you are back at the East Eye again.
YYou'll remember these dives forever. Just two of the many cenote dives we would love to share with you including Cenote Angelita and Cenote Calavera.
No special qualifications are required for cavern diving. Just an Open Water Certification and reasonably good buoyancy control
Dive trips for the cenotes including Dos Ojos leave the shop at 8:30 am and 2:15 pm daily.Maintaining the highest standards of service and safety ensures that when you go with Maya Diving in cenotes, you always have the best experience possible.
