Coba

we had an amazing and adventurous day yesterday! After a long bus ride of pick ups, there was only 12 of us, including our guide, 3  from Mexico City, 4 from Spain, 1 from Canada, and crazy enough another couple from Washington State!
First we went to this little Mayan village way out in the Yucatan jungle, there we canoed, hiked through the jungle, did a zipline over crocodiles, than more jungle hiking, and arrived at large hole in the ground, but before we could look at it we had to be blessed by the Mayans, this hole is made by limestone (coral) all the yucatan was under water, when the crater hit the earth it turned everything out, so the limestone is very soft and poreous, with lots of water and trees its gives way to these underground caves called Cenotes. so this one is huge, its also the entrance to this villages underground, so we had to be blessed and cleansed to enter it. the cutest short mayan guy did this amazing ceremony,we had an opportunity to bless our friends and family that couldnt make journey too.
than we stepped to the hole, you look down this hole and you see water, we are about to rappell in to that! We have our harnesses on and they tie a figure out loop around you line and you are holding all your weight and lowering yourself down 45 feet in the water, that is 60 feet deep! And very refreshingly cold, since we have been sweating the hole time. right before we hit the water the guy in the water puts an innertube under us so we can just float, it was amazin. it is pitch black and bats flying over your head as you are swimming!
the return was harder, they just hook your harness to the line and the guys have to raise you, so they pull, than jerk stop, than jerk start, but i made it!
next we had an authentic mayan meal, vegetable soup, rice, beans, chicken, and ensenadas, which dennis loved, i think he ate like twelve! Than we relaxed in the hammocks and got ready for the ride to the Coba.
when we arrived in coba we met our guide, he is a coba native and he explained the history of Coba, it is the oldest Mayan village, very amazing to see and learn the history, than we had the chance to go to the large temple, we hopped on a tricycle taxi and the guy had to pettle us 1 mile each way to the base this huge temple, 120 steps to the top, not regular steps, large   brick steps, so we climbed to the top in the blaring heat, never sweatedmore, net even in hot yoga! Atthe top was the ,ost amazing view of the jungle, you could see everything.
it was pretty cool that we able to climb this one, as you cant climb chitzenitza or tullum, at after the first they will close the climbing of this one too!
after our scary descent we took a nap on the bus ride home and than relaxed in iur room til dinner time, once we walked out it startedto sprinkle, we werent too worried, until the torrntial downpoor began, we were walking up the ling walkway from the beach to the lobby where the buffet was, after we got there we were soaking wet, but laughing, another yummy meal at the buffet than back to bed we went.