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I have been diving the cenotes of Yucatan for many years and there are truly some beautiful caverns to explore. There are opportunities for everyone from beginners to experienced cave divers and all have their own signature. You can see many of these on some of my other web pages. There are the large rooms of Dos Ojos, the light show in Kulkukan, and the huge colonades in Grand Cenote. On this last trip I was offered the chance to dive a cavern the guides don’t have on the tourist lists - you can’t locate it in books. It’s a cenote the guides consider one of their very favorite places to go when even they want to be impressed. Called Dream Gate (appropriately) it is so full of magnificent and fragile formations as well as being close quarters in many cases, the guides only take experienced divers who they feel are competent to not damage this georgeous natural wonder. I went to Tulum to dive for three days expecting to hit six caverns in my six dives. After doing the usual Dos Ojos and Bat Cave (both of which are beautiful), I said I was hoping to go somewhere I hadn’t been yet. So for the third dive Francisco (my guide) suggested we go to Dream Gate. Always anxious to see a new cenote, I jumped at the chance. I spent the rest of my diving in that cavern and will go back every time I can get down there. If you get the chance to go to this cenote, you will have to prove yourself first in some of the other, less congested caverns but it will take your breath away.
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