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Attractions at the Mexican
Riviera
There area never-ending horizons of fun in Cancun. Attractions arise everywhere and under every sign. Water-sports have in Cancun their greatest expression and they include sports fishing and scuba-diving in marine reefs, caves and gardens. Not to mention sailing, aqua ray, motorboats, skiing, parachutes, the banana and other water attractions.
The Cenotes.
In the midst of the agony of creation, the Yucatan Peninsula emerged in princely countenance from the sea
as a sheet of limestone that wards off superficial water currents.
Nature denied her the frenzied caress of rivers and the gentle tunic of lakes, but when the rain pecks through
the limestone epidermis, the water filters into the subsoil where it forms veritable river-beds which in turn bite into the rock.
Cenotes are the result of long process of dissolution. They are formed precisely when the subsoil water is exposed due to the caving in a cavity.
Some of the cenotes are genuine caves that can wind down through galleries conducing to the water chamber, as can be seen in Xcecem or Dzitnup in Valladolid.
There area also open cenotes of various dimensions: the face of the water in the small ones rests at ground level. In the larger ones, the body of water and
the ground are separated by tall shafts.
Tulum
A land consecrated by the Indians, a shrine for rites of protection and science, is also a symbol of war. If before the arrival of the white and bearded man
Tulum served as temple and observatory, legend has it that during the mid 19th century it became the cradle of a miraculous Cross that communicated with the
Indians and encouraged them to keep up a war of extermination against the white man that had begun a few years back.
As the story goes, in 1847 the entire Yucatan peninsula was shaken by the so called Caste War, by which the Mayan sought to drive all non-Indians out of their territory. The hostile natives failed in their attempt, and the local mestizos forced the rebels to retreat into the most uninhabitable areas of the jungle, around what is now the State of Quintana Roo.
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Attractions At The Mexican Riviera
