Good morning Tangerineys! Buenos Días! Just as we were leaving the house today
the heavens opened up and it started pouring down rain which we were thinking
"crap is this gonna ruin our day?" It was a torrential downpour!
And of course it was almost exactly when we opened up the door. But luckily it
has stopped now and I think that's just total Tulum style - to pour down rain and
then clear up in like a few minutes. We are at Selva Maya Eco Adventures today
doing some ziplining, rappelling, rock climbing, cenotes, snorkelling.
Cenote-ing. I'm really
excited about all of this! This is our third and final full day in Tulum and I
feel like it's going to be the best of all of them so far. Yeah we've had so much
fun here in this city already but this is gonna be cool!
The chariot awaits!
We're now in the jungle limousine! [Laughter] Going where? I don't know!
Good thing it poured last night because that wouldn't have been nearly as much fun! I
think that was more fun than some amusement park rides that I've done. I was like,
oh this is only the start of the day. Whoop!
You ready for this? Yah! Helmet on tight?
You look extra cute with that.
Ready for our first zip line? Zip line!
Go ahead!
[Maddie shreaking as she's ziplining through the jungle.]
Here we go!
Ahhh! Holy crap this is fast! Ahhh [Jordan freaking out at he zip lines through the jungle]
Oh! Woo! Muy rápido!
So for this zip line they told us: bend your knees at the end and they will catch you.
Well, we both came in and I genuinely thought he just
forgot someone was coming because he was just standing there. They have a stopper at the end.
Yeah, we're probably doing about 20, 30 miles per
hour right into the tree. I'm like okay - brace myself! [Laughter]
Maddie-achi. Watch me eat it trying to clap my way across here. [Laughter]
Okay. 1, 2, 3. Let's got. Fast, fast, fast! WOOO!
Ay ay ay!
Clap it Jordan, clap it!
[Laughter]
Here we go.
So many stairs!
He said - this one you can go upside down.
Oh! We are quite high up here and it is kind of toasty but I am really excited for this!
Yeah, I thought we'd be in the shade the whole time with it going through the trees.
This is the only time though. We're like above the trees right now!
Not gonna lie, I'm a little nervous to go upside down.
Vamanos! 1, 2, 3, go!
[Laughter] No hands!
[Jordan shreaking like a little girl on the zip line]
Oh my gosh this is fast!
Oh, this is fun!
So it was surprisingly hard to stay upside down but I was also a little bit
afraid that if I went too far upside down, I wouldn't be able to come back up. [Laughter]
There's no coming back from there! He's like "no hands!" I'm like no, I have to watch out for this!
And this time, we weren't on the ground but we have to go up more stairs. We've done
something like this before in Arizona but here, they take care of all your
equipment for you, whereas before we had to like set our own equipment up on
every thing that we were going on.
[Maddie shreaking on the zip line] Oh my gosh this is so fast!
Wooo! [Laughter]
Wooo! That one was fun!
The disadvantages of being tall. [Laughter]
I've completely lost count of how many zip lines there are. But I asked and he said there's one more after this.
Okay, so the last one is the biggest, and baddest, and best, and fastest, and scariest. [Laughter] And scariest!
[Ziplining through the trees at high speed] Woah!
[Sign of relief when the zip line is done]
Wooo! Ahhh! [Laughter]
Wooo!
And that's all for this part of the tour! Oh my gosh, that was so great! Oh my, yeah, if this was just the whole
thing, like I think that'd be still fun.
Look, honestly, I thought the Jeep part in the beginning was good enough. I would've been like "Yes, this was a great jungle tour!"
[Laughter] But this stuff was awesome!
There were so many ziplines!
Wooo! That one was a rush!
And now we still have like a climbing and rappelling thing and then cenotes! Two
cenotes. One where we'll be in a cave and the other is out and open. We don't know
yet exactly what's happening next but we think we repel or climb up the other
side of this big wall, rappel down this side and into this, cenote? Cenote.
Oh yeah, I'm all about this!
So we're just about to do this rock climbing part of this and it starts raining so we found a
nice umbrella here. Nature's umbrella. A palm tree. Gigantic palm leaf. So we're staying perfectly dry
over here. So after this climbing we're gonna go
into cenotes, but one fun fact about cenotes. Okay, maybe this is a few fun facts:
There's about 6,000 in the Yucatan (peninsula) region. In many places it's the only source
of fresh water because there aren't many lakes or rivers. It's so crystal clear
because the rainwater filters through the limestone and into the cenote! Awesome!
Yeah, that's really cool! Totally rad! Brah. Brah.
[Laughter] Nice!
How does it feel to have succeeded where most have failed? [Laughter]
That was so slippery! Oh I have
so much dirt under my nails because I was gripping behind...
Check out your legs! Oh lord!
I was gripping inside each of the rocks. When I got almost all the way up here
there was one missing so there was no place to put my left foot. [Laughter]
Truth be told, he had to pull me up the rest of the way. I didn't see that. I was like joink!
Yeah! So now that we are lifejacket-ed up, we've got some scuba masks and we're
walking through the jungle. I think these are snorkeling masks but we'll roll with it! You know what I mean [Laughter]
And I think we're heading to a cenote!
Jeez!
They go right by your face, Jordan.
Man, that was so different than the others we went to. Like you had
stalagmites and stalactites or is it stalactites and stalagmites?
I think stalactites, stalagmites. I've never done snorkeling before and that
was amazing just crystal clear waters! Fish were swimming around us the whole
time! You really had to be careful in this cave though because there are a lot
of times where there was something coming down from the ceiling. Stalactite.
Yes, there was one of those coming down from the ceiling but it didn't break the water's
edge, so if you were just looking down, you would run into it. Yeah, so it's like look down,
look up, make sure you're clear.
Once I got used to the cold that was
really nice! And I stopped panicking that I couldn't breathe underwater despite
having the snorkeling mask and everything. Year round the water temperature is
72 to 74 degrees, which sounds all right, sounds nice, but it's freezing when you first get in!
Yeah, especially with it being so hot and humid outside!
[Jordan jumping off of the ledge into the cenote]
[Maddie doing a backflip into the cenote]
So after the cenotes they took us back through the jungle and we had some lunch.
Home-cooked lunch. Yeah and then we got back in the limousine and took the trek back
through the puddles in the pouring rain. Thankfully, I was already soaking wet
because I was sitting on the edge and rain was just pouring on me. I thought that whole thing
was a lot of fun! And yes, we may look worse for the wear. So we might look a
little bit worse for the wear but I had a ton of fun that whole time! It was pretty
much non-stop going from one thing to the next thing. I didn't feel rushed
though, yeah, but it did keep us occupied the whole time. This whole experience was
about 1,500 pesos per person and we got a cab there and then for the ride back
we just went out to the highway and within about 30 seconds a collectivo
was picking us up. That was the fastest and easiest thing ever!
Yeah, they said they only come by every five or ten
minutes, so I think we got lucky there and that was 25 pesos a person to get back
into town (Tulum). Our cab, did we ever mention that? No.
250 pesos, so definitely a lot more expensive to do
that, but we wanted to make sure we got there on time!
They have tours at 9:00 and 1:00 p.m. and I think we ended, I don't know what
time it is, like 3 p.m. Yeah. It's kind of an all-day thing but totally
worth it! If you're looking for something to do in Tulum, we thought this was a lot
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