Name: Cenote PonDeRosa
Rating: 1.0

Quintana Roo

Mexico



3 kilometers south of Puerto Adventuras

Cenote PonDeRosa is also known as Ponderosa, Cenote Eden.

Xpu Há

Cenote PonDeRosa

It's a shallow basin with lots of catfish, cichlids and mollys. All the rocks are covered by green algae. It's the most beautiful entry to an cenote I have seen. As far as I know the cave connects to Cenote Garden of Eden but I didn't go that far. 

Right next to Cenote "Ponderosa / Garden of Eden" is the entry to Cenote Azul. (The small Cenote Azul - there's another one in another part of Yucatan.) Theres a little entry fee to pay.

Cenote Azul is also known as Small Cenote Azul.

Cenote Azul

entrance fee

Approx 5 km south of Puerto Aventuras just before Xpu-Ha; 25 Km from Playa del Carmen.

Chikin Ha Cenote

Beautiful cenote with three rooms in which light enters from above in a beam that leaves you puzzled. Halocline hallucinations.
Cavern dives possible with guide, cavedives. The Chinese Garden and The Waterfalls are particularly beautiful.

Approx 26 km south of Playa Del Carmen; 5 km south of Puerto Aventuras. Just south of Xpu-Ha.

Cenote Taj Mahal

Artificial Wreck.



Pelicano Wreck is also known as Pelicano Ship Wreck, Naufragio Pelicano, Naufragio del barco Pelicano.

Pelicano Wreck

Kukulcan

This is a cenote, essentially a technical dive.  Most of the dive is dark, light required.  Also there is no open water overhead for most of the dive.  We went on a guided dive.  There are two cenotes in the immediate area a short walk from parking.  It was a fantastic dive with interesting geological formations and clear water conditions.  You do go though a halocline at some points in the dive profile.

3 Cenotes at this site: Chac-Mool, Kukulkan, and Big Brother

Vehicle access on dirt road northwest of Mexico 307, Ctra Tulum - Playa del Carmen.  Short walk from parking area.  We went with a guide.

Chac Mool Cenote is also known as Kukulkan Cenote.

Chac Mool Cenote



The dive area is opposite the big white sand beach in Xpu-Ha.
A short boat ride will take you underwater where little coral bars run offshore parallel to each other. 

Xpu-Ha Canyon

A fun dive with half coral and half sand. ' You see tons of different animals and fish

Access by a tiny dive shop boat

Esquela

Sandy bottom at about 98 feet and headed west and shallower.  Narrow cuts filled with crushed corals.  Nice barrel sponges deeper, porkfish, jacks, barracuda, with lobster in some holes.  Spotted drum and seafans as we got shallower.

North of Yal Ku (Halfmoon Bay) by boat almost a mile.

Las Gorgonians

Sandy bottom with islands of corals, some nice swim-throughs with some wide others narrow.  Elkhorn corals pillar up to 25 ft from surface and you see an occasional halocline.  Eagle rays, stingray, chased a barracuda through a swim-through.  The islnads of corals are loaded with smaller fish and HUGE lobsters and gray angels.

From boat from any of three dive centers in Akumal

Cenote PonDeRosa

Snorkeling and Scuba Diving at Cenote PonDeRosa