Yokdzonot Cenote — Attraction in Yucatán

This is a communitarian cenote, meaning, run and operated by locals, only people from the village and only they receive the income. I only visited this cenote, it's... breathtaking, beautiful, amazing. Go live a great experience.

After paying and getting your swim vests, go to the changing room, KEEP YOUR SHOES ON, do not put your slides yet as you'll have to go down and down using wet stairs. So, follow the rabbit hole and be careful with those tiny steps, when you get to the promised land (or water), I know it will feel like it's freezing but it's not, it's just that you're to warm because of the weather and the fresh water is totally the opposite, you can jump from the dock, it's save there are no rocks so just jump!

Watch the sky, hear the water and swim with the fishes, take your go-pro (if any, I would love to have one) and enjoy the natural amazing pool but hurry, around 6pm the natural light will disappear and 'now' the water will be cold.

Anyway, head up, remember to use your shoes and not your slides, take some last photos and go to the next town for some food and enjoy life. Those moments... you do not know what is going to happen next but those moments, embrace them... specially if you're swimming...

I can't for the life of me understand how this place has such a high rating. We were brought here by our tour guide, and the guy in the booth charged us for 2 people, even though both me and the guide told him, to give us a ticket for only ONE person. There was only one changing booth, but no safe place to leave your stuff if you want to swim. No signs indicating which path to take to reach the water, and when I saw it from the top, the water was covered with leaves and did not look very inviting at all. For the high entry fee they charge, you'd think they'd at least try to keep the place clean. Our guide tried to get us a refund for the other ticket, but to no avail. The people who run this place only care...

Beautiful cenote, infrastructure is simple but well built with respect to the natural environment. Lots of tropical plants. We had lunch at the restaurant there, service was friendly food was good and prices were honest. A very peaceful place. When we went swimming, the lifeguard left for about 10 minutes, a mother and her 2 daughters crossed the rope and she let her kids hang and pull on the roots from the trees hanging 10-15meters above their heads. It was upsetting, as it is clearly stated that this hurts the trees (which have been there for hundreds of years) and is potentially dangerous (trees could be dislodged or roots could break off). Please respect these beautiful places and the...