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Cenote diving Playa del Carmen

Cenote Jardín de Edén

Ponderosa

Garden of Eden is an excellent first cenote dive as you progress along the open water at all times.  Located close to Playa and also called "Ponderosa", Garden of Eden is a mangrove type cenote, with magic light rays passing through the tree branches and roots. This creates beautiful photo opportunities. 

Coral fossils can be found everywhere, and it offers the strongest halocline among the cenotes, making it one of the best cenote dives around Playa del Carmen. 

A famous place for cave diving in Mexico, you're likely to see cave divers in training here.

Location: 25 km south of Playa / 41 km North of Tulum

Max depth: 12 m 

 

Certification level: Open Water Diver 

 

Min dive experience: 5 dives 

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Tajma-ha

The white cavern

Enjoy the light show that the "sugar bowl cenote" offers, and pass underneath the bat cave decorated with stalactites and stalagmites! 

Plenty of hidden fossils can be find along the way, cool haloclines will be encounter in the deeper parts of the cenote and the laser beams of light coming through holes in the cavern never disappoint.

 

A very "complete" cavern dive, and a perfect second cenote dive after Eden when you are staying in Playa del Carmen. 

Location: 28 km south of Playa / 39 km North of Tulum

Max depth: 16 m 

 

Certification level: Open Water Diver 

 

Min dive experience: 25 dives 

 

*Good equalization techniques are required*

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Chac-mool 2 dives

Kukulcan - Little Brother 

Offering 2 different dives, Kukulcan and Chac-mool, this site has it all and is a famous special of Playa del Carmen diving! Dive along a beautiful light curtain, enjoy the special color of the surface, due to the concentration of tannic acid, and a cavern filled with marine fossils. 

The halocline and the dead trees laying on the bottom create a very special panorama on the second dive, as well as the freshwater turtles sometimes visiting this cenote.

Location: 23 km south of Playa /44 km North of Tulum

Max depth: 15 m 

 

Certification level: Open Water Diver 

 

Min dive experience: 10 dives 

*Please note that all types of cameras, 

including Go Pros are strictly forbidden

in the cenote. *

However, there is a professional photographer on site offering his services, and pictures will be up for sale after our second dive. 

*Good equalization techniques are required*

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Price 2 Cenote Dives 

 

From Playa  $ 140 US

From Tulum $ 150  US

EXTRA DIVE $50 US 

Equipment rental $ 25 US

(BCD -regulator - torch) 

 

*Soft equipment is included in the price (mask, fins and wetsuit). 

*Entry fees to the Cenotes are not included in the price*

North 

Location: 53 km North - West of Playa del Carmen / 122 km  North of Tulum  

Cenote Zapote 

"Hell's Bells" stalactites

This one is not for everyone: with an impressive entrance, a dark room full of nightmarish formations, Cenote Zapote has a lot to offer, but only to the bravest! 

Starting with what looks like a small entrance, the cenote opens up to a huge chamber full of "bell shaped" formations, the only ones in the world created underwater!

A cloud of hydrogen sulfur and a dead tree await for you at 30 m, adding to a strange, spooky atmosphere. A must of cenote diving in Playa del Carmen! 

Location: 53 km North-West of Playa / 122km North-West of Tulum

Max depth: 30 m 

 

Certification level: Advanced Open Water Diver 

 

Min dive experience: + 50 dives 

*Zapote cannot be chosen as a first dive when diving with us

*Nitrox will be recommended to dive this combo 

The Hell Bells, a unique formation ony visible while cave diving Mexico

Cenote Maravillas

Magic Light

From a circular entrance into the ground, divers access an enormous spherical room. At 28 m of depth divers will go through a cloud of hydrogen sulfur under which they will be able to admire the famous hells bells. Coming back up above the cloud, we will witness the rays of light entering the room from the entrance above and playing with the cloud below. 

We will then slowly spiral up this massive underground room, often admiring the descents of the freedivers training in this popular cenote.  

This cenote is usually combined with Zapote.

Location: 53 km North-West of Playa / 122km North-West of Tulum

Max depth: 30 m 

 

Certification level: Advanced Open Water Diver 

 

Min dive experience: + 50 dives 

*Maravillas cannot be chosen as a first dive when diving with us

*Nitrox will be recommended to dive this combo 

Playa del Caren diving offers unique oportunities to dive offthe beaten path, like in cenote Maravilla

Price 2 Cenote Dives 

 

From Playa  $ 150 US

From Tulum $ 170  US

EXTRA DIVE $50 US 

Equipment rental $ 25 US

(BCD -regulator - torch) 

 

*Soft equipment is included in the price (mask, fins and wetsuit). 

*Entry fees to the Cenotes are not included in the price*

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