When is summer in playa del carmen
One Day in Playa del Carmen on the Yucatan of Mexico
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it's getting deeper and deeper
into the cave and we're
like waist high water the mosquitoes are
really bad oh my god
my back has like 20 mosquito bites yeah
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so hey there hola from clay del carmen
mexico on the yucatan peninsula i was
last here
almost uh five years ago and i am
going on a day tour today to cenotes
three different cenotes cenotes are
underground
lakes really amazing because here on the
yucatan
there are no rivers and so the water
just dissipates
underground through underground aquifers
lakes rivers
etc and then you can go swim in them and
they are a very spectacular experience
walking down into the coolness of the
cave
and getting into the pristine
clear natural water i'm going to walk
along here and show
some more of these cool murals and so
i came to uh mexico for i forgot the
fifth or sixth time now
just a couple of days ago because i'd
heard that cancun
and the general area of quintana roo is
the state here
was open to tourism now unfortunately i
can't really recommend
coming here because of what happened
yesterday
show some more uh of the murals as you
can see the beach is right there
as i was walking along here then
there were three policemen walking over
to the beach now when i checked into my
hotel
and by the way i have some company and
you'll be meeting that person in a
second
she has been in a previous video just
once before
there you can see the beautiful
caribbean sea
and so when i checked in yesterday at
the hotel then the lady at the front
desk said that we could not go swimming
in the ocean you could only go or the
sea rather you could only go on the
beach and go walking around and that was
a bummer but we thought well at least
you can
do something and so yesterday we came
down onto the sand and we're walking
along the beach and then taking some
pictures
and a policeman comes along in a
four-wheeler and
stops us and says no you cannot even be
on the sand at all it is all blocked off
not allowed and
that might be the case until august and
so what's the point of coming to cancun
if you can't go to the beach
i'm not sure if it might be different up
in cancun itself it's about an hour uh
drive north from here but there are
fortunately other things to do
like the cenotes we're going to visit
and there are various other activities
so
you can still make the most of it also
it has been rainy
this is the first sun that we've seen
actually and well it's just been a
couple of days
this is like the third day that i've
been here but it was rainy and cloudy
before
okay let's go say hi to he's joining me
it's anna from
zacatecas and guanajuato and anna is a
world traveler
ah kind of yeah and where did we meet
we met into rovaniemi in the north part
of finland in the plan
yeah where i went to the arctic circle
and stayed at a hostel and we stayed at
the same hospital yes
anyways soon we will be taking off and
uh going to experience a
very uh incredible yucatan yucateca
quintana roo yes experience
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nice
we work in finance i'm from northern
california california i'm from
texas basically we're gonna be here only
five minutes i will recommend you
get a book repellent with you because
the cenotes are
in the middle of the jungle we have uh
we have these uh mosquito
anklets that you put on that maybe
hopefully it works you can use
it yeah perfect perfect nice deep in the
jungle
scary jungle a nice jungle with a nice
road
which animals are in this jungle years
deer okay like
is it a very small deer or normal size
tall also jaguars there's jaguars here
yeah
yeah wow sometimes kawati
what is spider monkeys raccoons raccoons
iguanas too much this is what
it's like it's
and this is the yucatan peninsula we
don't have a
open rivers here we're gonna see the
roots of the trees going down to the
underground river
and where are we on this map again
around like here or something
we are exactly here akumal
ah we're close to the sea still oh okay
so many mosquitoes
yeah even with the uh mosquito repellent
and
this is supposed to be a mosquito
repellent bracelet but when we
be in the cave there the bats will
control the mosquito population ah okay
that's good yeah see so bats are good
until i will get i will i don't i don't
know if i will
arrive yeah you'll only be half of anna
when you get there they're going to
extract all my blood yeah
so uh there are some trees
also the animals jaguar pumas ocelot
the earth white forks will come at night
for drink this water ah this is their
watering
place where they drink water yeah
exactly and so there's all these bats
and obviously they're not uh vampire
bats so they won't
they don't they don't eat us like
vampire bats
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maybe we have to get in the water and
that's where you get away from the
mosquitoes
so cool flying around here
catching some mosquitoes as well yeah
that's that's what they're doing right
now is eating huh
wow and they're all like gathering on
the uh the bank of the
the water there oh they're drinking okay
yeah
and we got some catfish in here
freeze on top i see yeah there's a root
of the tree coming down from
the tree overhead yeah we're gonna
happen
after 1000 years the weight of the
trees is too much and it sunk it
happened
here that's what created the cave no
it opened the access to the only crown
size to the underground rivers
yeah but the theory say
65 million years ago
the yucatan peninsula used to be in the
bottom of the ocean
that was when the meteor hit that uh
killed the dinosaurs right
i think they believed that the meteor
that killed the dinosaurs hits uh in
in this area when the emitter crashed
yes the earth
it emerged into the air so and then that
pushed the ground uh
the undersea ground up and became the
peninsula you mean
yeah bird's nest right there yeah
also a nest of this
bees okay a brown ball yeah
and this is an example of the collapses
in the caves so this is a big circle
and a long time ago the rocks
and it all fell down okay yeah you can
see the edge all around the ring
so it's the same process the roots are
looking for water
then it cross the layers of the stone
and then in the same hole
the filtration of water joined calcium
around
the roots
are you doing better from the mosquitoes
it's a little bit less bad
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the raccoons yeah anna's favorite animal
yes yeah
right there
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so here's a print of it could be a
leopard or something
or ocelot leopard would be even bigger
yeah i think the
print of the ocelot is a little small
he's even smaller so what do you think
this is
lots of stalactites can't see
very much but it is really
really cool
we're going on a different tour or
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something do you know what it might be
raphael like a fine vertebrate or
something
or maybe an eel like it could be maybe
an eel
kind of a fish or something
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well this one is in the middle of the
way
from the first one i'm going to the
last one and probably it's the same
river
ah okay it's the same water the same
connection
which town are you from
going to the tobacco
yeah cancun carmen tulum
and then it's more yeah
near chattanooga
yeah i was in chateau mall and went by
boat to belize
okay yeah you mean
no i didn't go to back i didn't know
about it then even though i was so close
this gabriel is the calcium carbonate
and it's the same within the stalactite
here an example
of the oh you mean on the surface of the
water a little bit
yeah yeah that's settling on the surface
yeah
yeah for example if you touch the water
with your sweat
it will push yeah all the way away
the same happen when we
touch the stalactite yeah in the same
process
and it's different when we drop
a rock from the same place it will open
the calcium
and after a few seconds it will
recognize
back up but this one is still open yes
it stays away
from it it's like oil also
and water acid ph that's why
it happened in the stalactites when we
dodged
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and also in this part they kill millions
of mayans
i see and when they try to fight so
fight yeah because they had the better
technology the guns
never lost anywhere they never lost
yeah they also used to have
a whistle
yeah scared to other people when they
are going to
to the fight right oh they called to
call the fighters
okay exactly when they are going to uh
to conquest and small be lash they used
to use a
a whistle to scare the people from the
i see is it okay if i walk here or no
can i walk here and show it yeah okay
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lucious
houses caves also childs
i see so they would have it in their
house maybe their house yeah
and here it's protecting the cave there
is a containment when people leave some
friends
hey guys did you go swimming already
yeah it was
nice yeah it looks great
oh wow i can see the blue blue here we
can go
yes what's up we did the other two
cenotes did you do them yet or no no i
probably went the other way i guess so
the mosquitoes are really bad oh my god
my back has like 20 mosquito bites yeah
this guy just told me he's like your
whole bag is mosquito bites
enjoy it's really nice out there all
right this is just spectacular
all right you ready to go into the deep
yes come on fish
i want to make some french friends
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no bringing food or drinks yes
she's breaking the rule as always
yeah you can't be adventurous if you
don't break some rules
yes sorry i'm not the kind of girl but
i'll follow the rules yeah
you prefer to have fun remember
the good girl go to heaven and the bad
birds got to everywhere
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