It was like coming back to life

Photo: Magnus Åkerblom-Wiker

"There is a place, like no place on earth.
A land full of wonder, mystery and danger."

You want your dive guide to be very clear and attentive when it comes to cenote diving. We were lucky that way. I cannot remember any dive setting being this emotionally dense and impression-filled. Every dive site meant a new challenge and some of them had a bottom part that was filled with salt water while the upper part contained fresh water. The difference in density creates a halocline, and passing between this messes definitely with your sanity. Your vision gets totally blurry, as if someone poured dishwasher liquid into the water and the optical effects make it all surreal. Diving the cenotes are like entering another world. A Wonderland designed by Tim Burton, being both magical and a bit freaky at the same time. 

"I knew who I was this morning, but I have changed a few times since then."

There are cenotes being 150 m deep. And just above the saltwater there is a sulfide cloud that makes it look even more mystical. We descended through it and just hung out there in the middle of everything, watching the sunbeams reaching the water and I travelled from Wonderland to outer space in a second. It is a piece of heaven on earth and it makes you addicted.

Photo: Magnus Åkerbom-Wiker

The cenote Angelita, the small angel, feels like the entrance to death. Not in a scary way, just because of it's very unusual light, where the sulfide layer makes it all misty. Like a forgotten valley with naked tree branches. We sunk through the mist and lost all visibility while we got down to the saltwater where it was clear, dark and peaceful. I wasn't sure if this was Hades and the river Styx I was swimming through, or if it was just a magic cenote in the Mexican jungle showing you what you most of all wish to see... And as we went back to surface, we saw the light slowly growing stronger. We watched the sunbeams and the trees through the water. It was like coming back to life.

"She began to believe that very few things are indeed impossible."
Quotes from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll.

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