TANKAH CENOTES TULUM MEXICO
We had a great experience during our tour at TANKAH our guide Monty was so amazing. If you decide to go make sure to request it with him I promise you will not regret it! Overall 10-10
Aerial - Casa Cenote, Cenote Tankah - Tulum, Mexico
Cradled between a crystal-clear fresh water cenote and a sandy white beach on a turquoise Caribbean bay is where you’ll find Casa Cenote. Located in Tankah Tres, Mexico, two hours south of Cancun, Casa Cenote sits upon the largest underground cave system in the Yucatán
Caleta Tankah Tulum Mexico. Beach, cenote and the hotel. Best beach in Mexico.
Caleta Tankah Tulum Mexico. Located on the seashore of the Riviera Maya close to Tulum. Enjoy two cenotes, amazing isolated beach and caletah and the hotel.
Tankah Inn Diving
October 2013 dive in Tankah Bay, Tankah, Quintana Roo, near Tulum.
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Amazing dive location in Tankah Bay near Tulum Mexico. Dive shop is operated by Halle Jones in Tankah Inn as Tankah Inn Diving.
Beautiful Diving / Snorkeling Tulum, Maya Riviera (Caleta Tankah) Caribbean Sea, Mexico
Freediving Exploration and Videography of beautiful underwater locations, culture and life. Freediviing Caleta Tankah in Tulum, Maya Riviera, Caribbean Sea Mexico.
This is a beautiful beach located 3.5 kilometers north of Tulum. If you are coming from the south on Federal Highway 307, the beach is located between Tankah Tres and Tulum, on the left side of the highway after the pyramid is turned left. Look for the sign Caleta Tankah on the left. A private road goes to the beach where there are some buildings near the inlet and an underground river emerges from the depths of the earth to join the sea.
Tulum is a town on the Caribbean coastline of Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula. It’s known for its beaches and well-preserved ruins of an ancient Mayan port city. The main building is a large stone structure called El Castillo (castle), perched on a rocky cliff above the white sand beach and turquoise sea. Near the ruins is the Parque Nacional Tulum, a coastal area with mangroves and cenotes (natural limestone sinkholes).
The Riviera Maya is completely within the state of Quintana Roo on the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico. The terrain is flat and covered by low tropical jungle. The geology is high purity carbonates down to a depth of 0.5 - 1.5 km below the surface. Mean annual rainfall is 1.5 m per year and the efficient infiltration results in the complete absence of any surface rivers. As is common in karst, underground river networks have formed by dissolution, and these have been explored and mapped by cave diving through sinkhole collapses, locally called cenotes. The whole of the Yucatán Peninsula is underlain by a density-stratified coastal aquifer system with a lens-shaped freshwater body floating on top of intruding saline water. The formation of caves (speleogenesis) within this coastal carbonate aquifer is principally associated with carbonate dissolution at the fresh-saline water contact within the aquifer. By 2008, the Quintana Roo Speleological Society (QRSS) reported more than 700 kilometres (430 mi) of flooded cave passages within the limits of the Riviera Maya including the two longest underwater cave systems in the world of Sac Actun and Ox Bel Ha. These groundwater resources, accessed via the thousands of cenotes throughout the landscape, once supported the Maya civilizations and today remain the only natural sources of potable water in the area.
The Caribbean coastline is a series of crescent shaped white sand beaches interrupted every 1 – 10 km by rocky headlands and inlets, called caletas, through which groundwater discharges into the coastal water. Large sections of the extensive mangrove swamps that lie behind the beaches and headlands are included in the areas scheduled for tourism development.
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Villa Tankah, Tankah Bay, Tulum, Mexico
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Imagine owning your own business in a place that's warm all year round, right next to what many consider to be the most beautiful beachfront in the world. This is one of the many options in Tulum beachfront real estate. This particular Tulum property, Casa Tankah Inn, is one of best examples of combining traditional Mexican elements with modern convenience, directly on the beachfront, located for excellent business.
This property, directly on Tankah Bay, includes 6 bedrooms, 6 bathrooms, and is well designed to provide comfort to guests, while they enjoy the relaxation and entertainment of staying in a beautiful, small hotel next to some of the softest, whitest sand to be found on a beachfront. The inn comes with a fully equipped, a spacious breakfast bar and dining room, that doubles as a living area. The oceanfront in this area is perfect for snorkeling and diving, and also nearby there is a cenote, a calm pool at the entrance to an underground cave system which is excellent place for a cool, refeshing swim on a hot summer day.
The property includes over 12,500 square feet of land, and just under 7600 square feet of construction. This is an excellent business opportunity for only $1,350,000 USD.
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Cenote Calavera Tulum
Fun place to jump in. bring your gear. lots of scuba dive areas. cheap
Tulum Scuba Dive Tanka Cuevas
Tulum Tanka Cuevas is a very good place to dive, is shallow water , you can explore a lot of caves and for the beginners is a good place to practice. For the advance divers there are very narrow caves so you can test your buoyancy . We dive on 2013 09 08
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Amazing Danza de los Voladores (Cenote Tankah) Tulum, Quintana Roo Mexico
Don't miss this amazing dance ceremony captured in Tulum, Quintana Roo, Mexico Danza de los Voladores ancient ceremony ritual performed at Tulum Mayan Ruins and Cenote Tankah at Hotel Caleta Tankah. Footage recorded on way to diving.
The Danza de los Voladores (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈdansa ðe loz βolaˈðoɾes]; Dance of the Flyers), or Palo Volador (pronounced [ˈpalo βolaˈðoɾ]; flying pole), is an ancient Mesoamerican ceremony/ritual still performed today, albeit in modified form, in isolated pockets in Mexico. It is believed to have originated with the Nahua, Huastec and Otomi peoples in central Mexico, and then spread throughout most of Mesoamerica. The ritual consists of dance and the climbing of a 30-meter pole from which four of the five participants then launch themselves tied with ropes to descend to the ground. The fifth remains on top of the pole, dancing and playing a flute and drum. According to one myth, the ritual was created to ask the gods to end a severe drought. Although the ritual did not originate with the Totonac people, today it is strongly associated with them, especially those in and around Papantla in the Mexican state of Veracruz. The ceremony was named an Intangible cultural heritage by UNESCO in order to help the ritual survive and thrive in the modern world.
According to Totonac myth, at least 450 years ago there was a severe drought that brought hunger to the people. The gods were withholding the rain because the people had neglected them. The ceremony was created, to appease the gods and bring back the rains. In some versions of the story, the ritual is created by the old men of a village, who then chose five young men who were chaste. In other versions, the five men themselves create the ritual. The tallest tree in the nearby forest is cut down, with the permission of the mountain god, stripped of branches and dragged to the village. The trunk is erected with much ceremony. The youths climb the pole and four jump off while the fifth played music. The ritual pleased the rain god Xipe Totec and other gods, so the rains began again and the fertility of the earth returned.
The exact origin of this ritual/dance is unknown, but it is thought to have originated with the Huastec, Nahua and Otomi peoples in Sierra de Puebla and mountain areas of Veracruz. The ritual spread through much of the Mesoamerican world until it was practiced from northern Mexico to Nicaragua. Evidence for the ritual stretches back at least as far as the pre-Classic period according to ceramics found in Nayarit. In pre-Hispanic times, the ritual was far more complex, involving taboos and meditation. The participants were thought to impersonate birds and in some areas were dressed as parrots, macaws, quetzals and eagles. These birds represented the gods of the earth, air, fire, and water. By the 16th century, the ritual was strongly associated with solar ceremonies, such as the spring equinox. The ritual is most closely tied with rain and solar deities such as Xipe, Totec and Tlazotlteotl.
In Maya mythology the creation of the world is associated with a mythical bird deity (Itzamna) residing at the World Tree (the center of the world). Five birdmen at the top of a pole represent bird deities. The main dancer stands in the center and plays a flute, which represents the sound of birds singing. The four other birdmen (representing the four directions) spin around the pole to represent the recreation of the world (and the regeneration of life In the early form, instead of only five men there are six men dressed as birds with each member climbing on top and performing a dance and at the end tied ropes around their waist and who all jump in unison and descend downwards. Many villages in Mexico banned this version of the practice due to injuries and even death.
Diego Durán, who recorded many Aztec customs at the time of the Spanish conquest, described an incident reminiscent of the Danza de los Voladores, where an Aztec prince, Ezhuahuacatl, sacrificed himself by diving from a pole 20 brazas high (probably about 120 feet, a braza being roughly a fathom 6 feet). The four modern day voladores typically circle the pole 13 times each, for a total of 52 circuits, or the number of years in the Aztec calendar round.
The ritual was partially lost after the Conquest, and the Spaniards destroyed many records about it. The Church was much against pagan rituals such as these after the Conquest and this and many other rituals were silenced or practiced in secret. Much of what is known is due to oral tradition and writing by the first Europeans to come to Mexico. Later, Catholic elements would be added to the ritual, and it became something of a spectacle in the later colonial period. The ritual mostly disappeared in Mexico and Central America with small remnants surviving, including the Totonac people.
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My adventure to another one of the CENOTES in TULUM. Last week I came down to Tulum to find a cenote that I was told about, no real name, but just past Ana y Jose Boutique Hotel on the Tulum Hotel Zone. As I arrived, there was just a canopy of Palm Tree's and a small signed that said Cenote. This first trip, the gate to the cenote was not open and no one was really sure why. After such a long trek to get to the cenote, and being extremely sweaty, I was pretty disappointed to not be able to jump in the water, but I was not going to let this deter me. I returned the other day to the cenote to find it OPEN. To arrive, you take the road from the corner of Plaza San Francisco in Tulum, down the 3.4 km to the round about at the beach that goes left and right. Go right towards the Tulum Hotel Zone. Another 4 or 5 kilometers later you will pass a resort called Ana Y Jose. Another 500 meters or so past there you will find this Tulum Cenotes with a small white sign with red painting outside leaning against a Palm Tree.
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Cost: 35 Pesos or roughly 2 Dollars
Open: 9am - 5pm
Number of Cenotes: 3
Upon arrival, the gentleman who must own these cenotes welcomed me and asked if he would like me to be shown around. I said sure, and we passed by the first 2 cenotes. Very small but very interesting as they did not have any real rocks surrounding them, simply the ground and dirt, and then a pit of crystal clear water. After seeing these 2 cenotes, we walked the path 250 meters or so towards the main cenote. This one has a small dock where you can sit and place your bags and things and is a much bigger cenote than the other two. A large pool surrounded with mangrove, these cenotes are the type that are great for swimming and snorkelling. Similar in style of cenote to Casa Cenote just north of Tulum.
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7 Days In Tulum
Here is part 1 of my first trip to Tulum Mexico. A big thank you to Halle and Diego Ruiz at Tankah Divers dive shop for a being a wonderful guide and a great boat captain.
Cenote Sac Actun Tulum Mexico
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Explore the Grand Cenote in Tulum, Mexico
The Gran Cenote is one of the most famous cenotes in Mexico. Located just a few kilometres from Tulum on the way to Coba, this is one of the top diving spots in Riviera Maya.
The word “Cenote” is pronounced, say-no-tay and is derived from the Mayan word, “Dzonot” which means sacred well. A combination of various geological events and climate changes created an incredible and unique ecosystem in Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula. These caves and underground rivers were created naturally over 6,500 years ago. Over the past 20 years, experienced scuba divers have explored these caves discovering more than 300 miles of interconnected passageways and caves that make up this amazing one of a kind ecosystem. These cenotes, only found in this part of the world, offer certified divers the opportunity to explore something different! Discover the tranquil beauty of these pristine windows to the underwater world and experience the dive of your life floating through caverns full of crystal clear water, stalagmites and stalactites.
Snorkeling in Cenote Cristal, Tulum, Mexico
Clear water, turtle, fish and cave.
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Glidewater - Diving Tulum
Tulum has beautiful dive sites. If you want to try something special, you should explore the Cenotes. If you go on a dive in the reefs, the chance to spot turtles in this area is excellent. Have fun watching this video and come on a dive with us! glidewater-tulum.com
Diving in the Tankah Cenote
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#347 - Cenote Tankah, Yucatan Peninsula
A dip in Agua Clara's private cenote site.
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